The Washington herald., 1918-03-28
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By e C. DRUM-HIJNT
In WASHINGTON
By E. c. DRUM-HUNT.

The President and Mrs. Wilson
attended the performance at B. r.
heith's Theater last evening. They
were accompanied by Lieut.. and
AIRS. James Woodrow and DR.. Axson.
Lord Reading. the British Ambas-
sador. is in New York for short
stay. Mai Stuart and Hubert
Montgomery. of the embassy staff.
are also in New York for a few
days.
The British Ambassador and Lady
Reading will have as their guest.
The Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang,
archbishop OF York. who will go to
them on Monday for a short visit.
The archbishop will arrive in
Washington Saturday. and will be
the guset OF the Rt. Rev. Alfred
Harding. Bishop OF Washington. at
the Cathedral Close over Easter
Sunday. Among the entertainments
to be given in honor of the distin-
gVished prelate is q reception on
Monday evening at the Corcoran
Gallery of-Art. The invitations were
sent out by the trustees OF that in
stitution.
The archbishop of York comes to
Washington as the guest of the war
commission OF the Episcopal Church.
He will preach at the Cathedral of
SITS. Peter and Paul at IL o'clock on
Faster Sunday morning, at st.
Johns Church in the afternoon and
in Epiphany Church in the evening.
yiscount Ishii. who was recently
selected to represent his emperor
and government as ambassador at
Washington. will sail from Japan
early in the coming month and will
reach Washington a few weeks
later. He will be accompanied upon
his return to this country. where
as head Of a recent special mission
countess Ishii.
The Minister of Switzerland who.
with Nine. SulEeT, went to New
York several days ago. will return
TO Washington today. Nine. SulZer
Will remain in New York several
DAYS longer.
Frederick OederIin, commercial
adviser of the legation, is also in
New York.
The Minister OF Serbia. Lioubomir
Michailovitch, entertained at a
luncheon yesterday. in compliment
to Mrs. 81. Clair Stobart, a major in
the Serbian army. and known to the
Serbs as The Lady of the Black
Horse" who arrived in Washington
Tuesday and Is at the Richmond
.uT a short stay. She is on her way
from the West. where she has spent
the greater part OF the winter
leCturing in various cities. She Is
one OF the most interesting women
who have come to this side sinse
the beginning of the war. She es-
Iahished the first woman's hospital
unit. in the first Balkan war.
ThTaCe. in 1928. She was made
prisoner by the Germans while en-
gaged in hospital work in Belgium,
and was condemned to die at AK
ls-Chapelle. in August. 1914.
Mrs. Stobart directed a hospital
in Antwerp and was the last to leave
the city over a pontOon bridge be-
fore it's destruction in October. 1914.
She established a war hospital at
Cherbourg, France, the following
month. and established a woman's
military hospital and civilian dis
pensary at Kraguijevatz, Serbia, in
June, 1915. to handle a typhus epi-
demic. She was given command of
the first woman's flying field hos
pital unit ever organized. with the
rank of major in the Serbian army.
in September. 1915. and led a unit
in the great S00-mile retreat
through Serbia, Montenegro and
Albania.
Mrs. Stobart has driven an ambu-
lance, equipped and manned by
women, with women surgeons and
aids, near the firing line. for months.
She will spend a week or more in
Washington.