Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1918 — MAY BE MADE INTO RECEIVING STATION FOR WOUNDED [ARTICLE]

MAY BE MADE INTO RECEIVING STATION FOR WOUNDED

That Fort Benjamin Harrison may be turned into a receiving station for American soldiers wounded in France, or in other words an immensearmy hospital, it became known this week when the surgeon general submitted the plan to the War Department. Whether or not the request will be complied with it not known at this time, as the proposition will be taken under the advisement of the powers

that be. The present hospital at Fort Benjamin Harrison has but 250 beds, but should the post be tufrned over to the medical department it is expected that the hospital would be expanded to take care of not less than 2,000 or 3,000 patients. Many rumors have been in circulation of late concerning proposed activities at Fort Harrison, that provided for a big camp of troops but the only proposition that has received consideration as yet is that of using the post for a hospital. >