Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-02 | Page 3 | Siam Paying Tribute to Its Late Monarch

SUM PAYING TRIBUTE TO ITS LATE MONARCH WASHINGTON, March I. Slam Is paying pay-ing Its tribute to the late king of that country by carrying out one of his cherished ideas in tlie erection of a Red Cross hospital and Hie enlari;eiiiont of Mahadb-k college, founded by the d'a-ccased d'a-ccased monarch according lo advices received re-ceived by tlie state department from the American legation at Bangkok, The bOSpltal Will he built by the Red rr.ss society, which was established in Slam in 1SJ3 during the Franco-Siamese difficulty. About $38,000 has been subscribed sub-scribed by the king's pons and daughters for the erection of the main memorial hospital building. The general public will be admitted to the hospital regardless of nationality and the poor will be treated free of charge Plans for developing the college, the name of which will be changed to "the Chulalongkorn civil service college." contemplate con-template I he addition of courses of law. administration, agriculture engineering, medicine and foreign affairs. Following the establishing Of two ministries min-istries for national defense the reports to tiie state department add, the army if biam is being reorganized, The readjustment, read-justment, however, contemplates no Increase In-crease In the strength of the military forces The divisions of the army, numbering num-bering ten under its previous arrangement, arrange-ment, are being assembled into three corps and our independent division