Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-21 | Page 4 | President Greets Wounded Soldiers

PRESIDENT GREETS WOUNDED SOLDIERS i Gopy of a wireless message of greeting from president Wilson la America's wounded soldiers in mis country, which was s-uit while the president was on his way to Franc-, was received at Fort Douglas yestenhiy through the medium of an issue of "The Gome-Pack," the official of-ficial newspaper of Walter Keed general hospital at Washington. This paper, which is edited and published pub-lished by the returned wounded and sick soldiers of the American exreditionary forces in France, prints facsimiles of the telegram sent by the president and a ; telegram sent 1 lie president from the 1 wounded soldiers at Walter Reed ios-: ios-: pital by Private Connolly, editor of "The j Como-Uack." j The president's wireless reads: "Please convey my most cordial greet-i greet-i ings to the- boys who have come back and i who have borne their sacrifices so nobly. I What they did was worth doing and will always reflect glory upon! hem. My heart Is with them in everv part of their future fu-ture as it was in their past. (Signed) "WOODROW WILSON," The message from Private Connolly, which brought this response from the president, reads as follows: "Through the first issue of our newspaper. news-paper. The Come-Back, wo wounded soldiers sol-diers of the Walter Reed hospital, bid our commander in chief Godspeed on his mission mis-sion to secure for all peoples that lasting peace, for the sake of which we are proud to have made our sacrifice.'' This message was sent by wireless to the president aboard the George Wash-ins Wash-ins Lon and immediately after its receipt the president sent his reply conveying greetings to the wounded soldiers of the Walter Reed hospital and everywhere else in the country.