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Show ALAN SEEGEK, American poet, . who ..died while fighting for France, and to whose memory a statue is to be erected. fy'v j I . - ' l' ft kf r I 1 l:ISSpiiIli;iII i WW'' MEMORY OF POET WILL BE. MED Statue to Be Erected to American Who Was Killed in France. , PARIS, Sept. 1. It is announced here that a Btatue will be erected in memory of Alan Sceger, the American poet, who died a year ago while fighting fight-ing for France in the Foreign Legion. Seeger was killed on July 4, 1916, during a furious charge on German outskirts on the, western front. He received re-ceived considerable recognition for hitJ poems, anion which' was the -famous one starting with the line "I have a rendezvous with death." .He was a graduate of Harvard university. |