The sun., 1918-09-03
CAPT. ARCHIE IS
BACK IN U. S.; HIS
RMPARALYZED
Col. Roosevelt Learns Son
Has Arrived in Hospital
at Newport News, Va.
SOON AT SYCAMORE HILL
Eighteen Other Officers and
300 Wounded Men Also
lnvalided Home.

capt. Archibald Roosevelt. first of the
former Presidents sons to be wounded
in ctlon with. the American forces in
France, has been invalided home and
was received yesterday as a patient az
an army hospital at Newport News. Va.
Col Roosevelt received the news of
his sons arrival from the front uIon his
return last night TO Sycamore Hill. at
Oyster Bay, from Newburgh, n. Y,
where he delivered an address at a ship
launching. The news was conveyed to
him by Archie's wife. TO whom Capt
Roosevelt telephoned from the hospital
late in the afternoon
Capt. Roosevelts left arm is pa ralyzed
the elbow having been broken and the
nerves severed by bits of shrapnel. In
the short conversation he .held with his
wife he said the army surgeons had told
him they would be unable 10 decide be-
fore at least eight months whether he
ever would regain the use OF the ARM
Mrs. Roosevelt, who was Miss Mary S.
Lockwood OF Boston, has been staying
with her parents-in-law at Sycamore
Hill for several days. anticipating the
return Other husband from France.
With her is her 3 months old infant,
whom Capt. Roosevelt never has seen.
stay at Newport News Uncertsin:
1t is not known yet how long Capt.
Roosevelt VIII be required TO stay at
the Newport News hospital, but he is
not expected TO arrive at his parents
home for at least a week or ten days.
In the meantime. 1t WAS explained, Col.
Roosevelt will not go 10 Virginia to see
him, preferring to wait until the army
regulations have been complied with.
Archie did not want to be invalided
home" Col. Roosevelt said las, night.
here he would not be able TO go back to
the front. and lie fought tooth and nail
to stay on the other side"
The Colonel sa.l atso lie hoped 1t
would be possible for his son to 30 as
soon as possible to Oyster Bay, where
every effort would be made TO procure
the best surgical treatment for him.
Capt. Roosevelt was wounded on
March / while in service on the Toul
sector OF the western front. and two
days later he was decorated with the
Cro,x de Guerre by the French COM
randtr. He was struck down by shrap-
nell while leading a raid over the top"
lie lay in a trench, filled with mud and
water, for several hours before he was
found and hurried away for treatment
at fl st line dressing station,
Two Brothers in Hospital.
Subsequently the Captain was trans
/ t., no, l,a al
lowed only a little later by his elder
brother, Major Theodore Roosevelt, who
! first was gassed and later wounded In
action Capt. Archie still was in the
Paris hospital when the third lighting
Roosevelt. Lieut. Quentin. fell to his
| death during a battle with German avia-
| tors behind the enemy lines.
The wound in Capt Roosevelt right
knee has entirely healed, and the leg, It
is understood, is as good as ever. 1t is
, known, however. that the wound in the
| left arm Is considered very serious by
the surgeons who have been treating it.
| and that there is strong probability he
never will be able to use il again. Two
| operations were performed upon the arm
| in Paris, but 1t is understood they have
had little success in arresting the paral-
! ysis
on the ship that carried Capt Roose-
! Welt to an Atlant port were eighteen
other American oGicers and 800 men who
also have been invalided home. Upon hid
arrival at the Newport News hospital
Capt. Roosevelt declined TO give an ac-
count Of the action in which he was
wounded, dismissing the request with
the statement that he remembered very
! little about It.