New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
oo;on Aroused Over Pro-
soosed German Meeting
;n Madison Square Gar
dem on February 28
V;ll Appeal to Mayor
10 Stop Attack Upon
France by Won Mach,
rx.Oficer of Kaiser

,.,ouucement by Edmund Otto Won
y,ss. formerly German army offfcer,
-. L he proposes to carry out his plans
- meeting in Madison Square
- ..a., or the evening of February %,
VS. :. sbieh France is to be criticized for
:. =. Military policy in Germany has
Z" .a3 American Legion members in
bis city. -. !. .bo fret sirca on
mt IN was made to produce German
''-s~ !, this city in 1919 that has
as.5 war veterans grave concern and
'a'Ses tssrrsined as Won Mach is TO hold
= = r,eeting so are certain Legion
-. ..,ae that he shall not.
'I-1. ~ veferans support the contention
'Syot;onal Commander Galbraith, who
I'd Won Mach from Ills room in
s4e.S;1oson when the latter sought the
,a,.;.rsernent Of the Legion, that such
E..aef;nc would be pro-German prop
1n5s ID pndisguised and tnat it would
s'.is .sa berinning of q wedge between
q ..s 80 snd France. The fact that the
A.so,,i mn is to take no oficisi part in the
ys s5;r does not enter in.o the question,
issv contend.
va Post who led he fight against
esrman opera, has declared his deter
r,;aation to prevent the meeting in
Vsdison Square Garden.
AsT' aTsis is the most colossal slap at
=. intelligence of American veterans
sas -.t .'onceived,' he said yesterday. ave
:-o still at war with Germany, and this
90, Won Mach tries to persuade this
al"r ."nntrv TO take sides with an enemy
met q tried and proved ally. We
~;T not permit it if we can possibly
n,orsrt #. The snug assurance with
rbcb this meeting has been organized
,sord make Americans think even
..nrs Than ever of our wounded and
5ssbled n,en-cripplej by German
SrilstsLfor whom the Am erican Le-
zion is spokesman.
Navor Hylan and the Police Com
ri<sioner will be appealed to to deny
. nsroit for the meeting. but If that
rlsa Is not granted the Legion prob
Div will organize committee to pre-
vent the assemblage.
The protest is to be made against
se sueeed retention by France Of col
ared troops in the army of occupation
IN Germany. The pro-Germans charge
tIese soldiers have committed crimes
srsiust women and children in the
R5jne provinces. France declares Off
cjsly that such troops are not in the
army Of occupation.
New Red Cross Service Club
A clubhouse for the $4,000 men in
he service who are stationed near
New York City and for the disabled
ez.seryice men in training here, is to
De opened by the New York County
Chapter Of the Red Cross. The build
ng on the northeast corner of Lex
ngton Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street
has been leased and furnished by the
Red Cross and is to be opened for
naly this week.
4 A cafeteria service is to be provided
Il the clubhouse which will provide
he men with meals at cost. For the
5eneft Of men recently discharged
rom hospitals, who have not yet begun
heir Federal training, the Red Cross
is supplying limited sleeping accomm0
|tacions. So great has been the diff
Guilty experienced by men on leave
here in obtaining decent sleeping quar-
1rs that the Department of the East
mas asked the Red Cross to consider
extending its sleeping accomm odations
On a large scale.