Estimated Seed for Coming Eight¬een Months Is About

? 150,000 Beds.

Hospital facilities for 50,000 men, ex¬clusive of those in camps and canton¬ments, have been obtained in this coun¬try. according to an announcement madefrom the office of the surgeon generalof the Army.Of this total 19,200 were obtained by

the hospital division of the MedicalCorps during the past month. The esti¬mated need of the Army for the comingeighteen months is about 150,000 beds.The new hospitals were obtained at a

lower average cost per bed than hadpreviously been obtained. This wasthe result of several gifts of splendidgroups of buildings by patriotic com¬munities and individuals. Nearly a

million dollars will be required to meetthe cost of alterations on the buildings,which will be ready by the first of theyear.

Plans of the hospital division callfor at least 5,000 new beds a month,and efforts wil be made to secure thesefacilities without the construction ofnew buildings.

Sites Recently Obtained.

foUow51163 obtained and from whom

_St. Louis Sanitorium, St. Louis, Miss..

3,000 beds, donated to the govern-ment.

1

Ohio State Hospital for the Insane,at Lima, Ohio. 2,500 beds, donated bvthe state of Ohio.Model factory at Cleveland, Ohio, 1,-

beds, turned over to governmentgratis by its owner, Richmond Broth¬ers. Adjacent to this hospital prop¬erty owned by the Deutschen Turn-verein was contributed to the govern-ment by the society.State School for the Deaf at Co¬

lumbus, Ohio, 1,500 beds, contributed.>y the state.K.st End High School at Hyde

Park, Cincinnati. Ohio. 2.000 beds, ob¬tained through the board of educationbf that state.»^ord HosPital at Detroit. Mich., 2,-000 beds, donated by Henry Ford.Nine buildings in Exposition Park,

Rochester. N. Y., have been tuned®*fr *° the government rent free.Norfolk. Mass.. State Hospital 700

beds .turned over to the government.other buildings obtained include the

Westchester (X. Y.). Almshouse. 400beds and the West Baden Hotel, atnest Baden Tnd.. 1.200 beds.It is expected that North Brothers

Island, at New York harbor, with ac¬commodations for 1,500 beds, will betaken over for hospital purposes.

8EIIIM DEFENSESMIDST SHUTTEREDAdmitted That More Successful

Operations Are Impossible,v Bhine Towns Quaking.

By EDWARD PRICE BELL.Cablegram to The Sunday Star andChicago DailyCopyright, 191K.

LONDON, . November 2..British

j airmen recently captured an order is-' sued by the German high commandrevealing the comparative bankruptcyof the German air defenses. It ad¬mits the frightful effects of the en-

' tents warfare from the air and de¬clares that more successful defense'than that hitherto made has been im-; possible, and shows not only thatmany of the German airplane shedsare empty, but that whole airdromesare unoccupied. Officers in the Ger¬man aviation service are instructed tooccupy the airdromes with dummyplanes^Meanwhile evidence accumulates in

onmistakable forms that the alliedand American attacks against theRhine towns are utterly shatteringthe nerves of the people, though theseattacks, unlike those of the Germansare confined strictly to military ob¬jectives. Letters from Germans in.such places as Lisdorf, Mains andra[>*"ort describe the populations as

unable to bear much more and as de-mandmg peace.

indorse the president.

Pro-War Socialists Ask Election ofMen Who Support His Program. INEW YORK, November 2..The

leadership of President Wilson, which"is responsible for the collapse of thepower of autocracy in Germany andAustria," was commended in a state¬ment issued by six of the prominent"pro-war" socialists. They called uponvoters regardless of party affiliationto uphold the President by voting foronly such congressional candidates assupport with loyalty and enthusiasmthe President's entire program of warand of reconstructions."The statement is signed by Allan L.

Benson, Henry L. Slobodin, J GPhelps Stokes, Chester M. Wright"Prank Bohn and William EnglishW ailing. .

TO DIRECT SPEAKERS' BUREAUNEW YORK, November 2..Mrs. ,

Thomas J. Preston, jr., formerly Mrs.Grover Cleveland, has assumedcharge of 2.000 volunteer patrioticspeakers in all parts of the countryas director of the speakers' bureau ofthe National Security League, it wasannounced here today. The bureauhas furnished speakers in twenty dif¬ferent languages in every state in theUnion during the last six months.Mrs. Preston succeeded her husband.

Dr. Preston, who resigned to becomedean of the New York HomeopathicMedical College and Flower Hos¬pital.

"What's His Regiment?"Asks Hearing's Opponent

MA,ffiiiiwREUjQutM.cyA««AMAJ. FIORELLO H. LA GUARDLA."Who is Soott Nearlng and to what

regiment does he belong'?" is the solecampaign argument of MaJ. FiorelloH. La Guardia of the American Avia¬tion Corps, in charge of our airmen onthe Italian front. MaJ. La Guardia,while in America on a special mission,is. paying little attention to his cam¬

paign for re-election as member ofCongress from the fourteenth NewYork district. He is both the republi¬can and democratic candidate. Hisonly opponent is Nearing, socialist.Maj. La Guardia has proven himself a

daring flyer.

H. W. ANDERSON HEADSRED CROSS COMMISSION

Henry W. Anderson of Richmond,Va., leads the recently completed RedCross commission to the Balkanstates, which will sail in a few flays.Important developments in thatregion lately indicate that an exten¬sion of relief activities in those coun¬tries may soon be necessary, and theRed Cross promptly created this com¬mission to co-operate with commis¬sions already in Greece and Serbia.Mr. Anderson headed the Red Crosscommission to Rumania in 1917.Other members of the new commis¬

sion are:

Dr. H. Gideon Wells of Chicago,First Lieut. B. C. Hamilton, United.States Army Medical Corps, Goshen,N. Y.; Col. George C. Treadwell. Al¬bany, N. Y., formerly military secre¬

tary to Gov. Hughes; Capt. AlexanderForward and William K. Thompsonof Richmond, Va. Dr. Wells and Dr.Hamilton were also members of theRumanian commission.Miss Helen Scott Hay of Washing¬

ton, who has done a great deal ofRed Cross work in Europe since thebeginning of the war. accompaniesthe commission as head nurse. Halfa dozen nurses and social workersare included in the personnel.

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