The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-30
ARTICLE V.

Committee on Public Information.)
ARTICLE V.
Somewhere in France have Just
returned from a five days stay at an
S. O. s. camp at which | met a num-
Der of Colored officers who are there
either as the result of wounds or
awaiting Redistribution. This par
ticular S. o. S. camp is a casualty
camp also to which are sem all Of
~ficers, white as well as Colored, who
are to be reclassified as the result
of wounds or other causes. Here l
met Majors Arthur Williams and
Charles L. Hunt, of Illinois; Captain
c. L. Hill of Chicago, Lieuts. E. S.
Gillard of Indianapolis. D. w. Anthony
of st. Louis, Birney Cox of Columbus,
o.; D.. E. Simelton of Chicago, Fred
u. Porter of Waco, Tex; U. Gaines of
Junction City, Kans.; Herdon White
of Portland, Me-; B. F. Rudd of Spring
field, o.; r. G. Allen of Springfield,
o.. and Walker of Springfield, o.
Lieut.. d. w. Johnson, surgeon, of Co
lumbus, o., is permanently stationed
here, attached to the medical corps.
| have never, during my stay in
France, been accorded such courteous
and considerate treatment as | was &C.
corded by General Rosenbaum, the
commandant at this camp. He per-
sonally conducted me through the
barracks on foot, and then accompan-
led me, in his automobile, on a tour
OF the grounds. He assured me, and
1 later confirmed it in conversation
with the Colored officers, that there
is absolutely no discrimination, be-
cause of color, tolerated at this camp,
either in barracks, mess OF other as
signments. He spoke most highly of
the Colored officers and soldiers sta
toned at this camp, and said he was
perfectly willing to be quoted as say
ing the Colored men under him were
splendid soldiers. He apparently took
great pride in telling of how quickly
Colored soldiers learned their duties,
and how punctual and precise they
were in performing duties.
Another white officer at this cas-
ualty camp, whose considerateness of,
and fine treatment accorded Colored
soldiers, entities him to be mentioned
in this letter, is Lieut.. C. H. Hagar,
of Chicago, who is in charge of the Of
ficers' casualty company. Every Col
ored officer here speaks in the high
est terms of Lieut.. Hagar.
At the Historic Castle of BIois.
Near here, and easily and quickly
accessible from the camp, stands the
historic old Castle of Blois, perhaps
the most famous chateau in France,
which although erected in the thir-
teenth century, is still in a marvellous
state of preservation. This old castle
has a tragic history. Here Louis of
Orleans was assassinated in 1407,
Louis XII was born. the Duke de
Guise and his brother, the Cardinal
of Lorraine, were murdered at the
order of Henri the Third, here Henri
III himself was assassinated, and here
Catherine de Medici reigned, poison
ed her many noblemen and noblewo-
men who became victims of her dis.
pleasure, and here she died. AS one
roams through the corridors, royal
bed chambers, Libraries, counsel and
throne and ball rooms of this histori
cal old chateau, still rich in its origi
nal decorations and settings, the
royal ghosts of the hoary past seem
10 pass in review before you. This
old chateau. at divers times, was &C
cupied by every one Of Frances reign