The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
IL WOUNDED POLES
HERE WITH HONORS
Decorated by French for Their
Services With Army of
Gen. GOuraud.

! The most polychromatic ships com
/ pany that has rainbowed down a gang
plank since the beginning of the war
| landed at an American port yesterday
after a detention in fog at Quarantine
of several hours. They debarked In
brilliant sunshine that accumulated their
colorfulness. One entitled TO uniform
and flashing medals, but who came in
mufti was conspicuous for the modesty
Of his attire. He is Capt. Andre Tar
dieu. formerly French High Commits
sioner at Washington and now holding
! the larger Job OF General Commissioner
FOR Franco-American affairs here and In
France, with headquarters alternating
| at Paris and Washington.
Capt. Tardieu was greeted at the pier
by Stephan Lausanne. editor Of lie
Matin: Edouard Billy, acting French
High Commissioner at Washington. and
other distinguished Frenchmen He said
he had been out OF touch with the world
for ten days. receiving no wireless while
he was aboard ship. and that before he
could talk he would have to get abreast
OF the events of that period. He was
also somewhat i'll.
Fighting Poles Return.
Leading a platoon of twelve Polish
American soldiers uniformed In sky blue
and carrying rifles, Lieut.. jean Chodzko
marched from the ship pier He limped
and his fellow voyagers explained that
he had lost his right leg in battle and
that he wore an American made arti-
fetal leg. He wore the French War
Cross, as did oil his comrades. all of
whom also had been wounded while
fighting under Gen Goursud from June
II to July 90 They are here on leave
to visit their homes. mostly in the
vicinity OF New York, and promote
patriotic sentiment among their COM
patriots in America. With the platoon
was Miss Sophie Beauvesu Norris of
Philadelphia, who has been running a
Y. NJ c. A. canteen for the Polish night
ere for the last sixteen months.
Henri Rabsud. who will replace DR..
Muck Onterned as an enemy alien) as
leader of the Boston symphony Or
chestra, admitted that he had some
novelties that he suspected American
music lovers might like He Is director
o. the National Opera in Paris and a
composer, his best known work being
the opera "Marout" He IL totally I'M
like the usual German conductor He is
gentle hammered, soft voiced and as
thetic looking. He Is tall, slim, olive
skinned. wears an iron gray beard and
has large, expressive dark eyes. He
said he could not tell what his plans
might be until he had talked with the
Boston committee that has charge OF the
orchestra.
The Rev. Pierre Biommaert. head OF
the Protestant chaplains OF the Belgian
army. is here to lecture and will be the
guest of the Federated Council OF the
Churches of Christ. He said that he
was a pastor in the Flanders town OF
De Reuzen Hook which might be called
in English the Giants Corner" where
several hundred Calvlnists had lived
since the sixteenth century entirely sur.
rounded by Catholics. The war had had
a splendid liberslxing effect on all sects
I Mr.. Blommsert said. King Albert had
been persuaded by the pastor that there
were enough Protestants in the Belgian
army to require chaplains OF their owl
faith. and the King promptly made him
chief chaplain and appointed two Others
to help him.
DR.. Alice Gregory. formerly of the
Polytechnic Hospital in New York, who
has been working with the Tenth French
army few miles behind the front. witt
MISS ISADel stevens or the Presbyterian
: Hospital and Miss Mary McCafery o!
Plattsburg. is back for a long rest from
her second tour of duty. She said she haC
; an average OF I 900 wounded every foul
! hours at the dressing station and tina
many of these were hopeless cases Sht
. was engaged chiefly In extracting shell
q splinters. and nearly all her patients
were French soldiers. Most of the few
g Americans she attended were negroes
? and they were a fine lot.
Mrs. William Astor Chanler, who ha,
been in France promoting the interest!
OF the Lafayette Comfort Kit and tn,
French Heroes Fund. said she was seek
ing rather than inpart!ng news. as sh'
had heard nothing from the war in al
the ten days she had been aboard ship
She said the gloom caused by the Ger
man offensive that began in March haC
= been succeeded by a joyousness that haC
made France almost gay again.
Robert Couzinou. French barytone
. who created the title role in Saint-Saensl
:. "Etienne MARCEL at Monte Carlo las
: season. will appear at the Metropolitan
. He fought In the French army two year
and has leave of absence for the Metro
. politan season. His wife. known to tn
= stage as Mile. Antolnette Robert. cam
= with him and will play at the Colombo
:. in West Thirty-fifth street.
William Hoilingsworth, American re
~ lief worker in France, said that Frenc'
? refugees from cities and villages recov
cred from the Germans in the recen
: fighting were fleeing TO Paris and tina
|. they would be in need OF civilian aid 70