Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-11 | Page 5 | Turn down Plan of War "Grand Stand"

TURN DOWN PLAN OF' WAR "GRAND STAND" PARTS. February 7 ( Ry Mail) Switzerland Swit-zerland has refused to grunt permission to a' syndicate backed by a nenitby American Ameri-can to construct, a concrete and steel "grand stand" at. the point , wliPie ihn French and Gorman lines end at the Swiss j frontier, so that spectators might watch trench warfare, a few rods away. The project for building a sightseers 'gallery of modern warfare, was conceived a long time ago before the United States entered the war, when it was believed that, many wealthy persons would he willing to pay large admittance fees to sit behind steel -shields and watch through loop holes the opposing troops in their positions, a few yards apart, and the continual bombardment bom-bardment enduring day und night.