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Show rmytdirtg-Meah-ttrtdreds Of Wounded Will Come Here FT. DOUGLAS TO GET ALL UK j War Department Plans : to Send Its Heroes to Hospitals Near Their Homes or Relatives By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dee. 3. Duns under which all wounded men returning from France, will go to hospitals with- in 1100 milcH of the homes of ( their nearest relatives were announced an-nounced today by the war depart-ment. depart-ment. To this end base hospitals at train-t train-t ing camps have been turned over to j the surgeon "general, providing seventy-five hospitals with facilities to I care for 104.231 men. Fifty thousand j men are exMcted to l sent to th. se ! Institutions within the next four I months. The sevent -five hospitals to lie em-! em-! ployed do n Include thofe at the porta of dei.;irkation. New York and Newpoi t New a. T he re. ihp on tided wilt be rereivfil on their arrival from France in fifteen institutions, now ready for thern, with a bed capacity of HaJ.OKK. From the orts the men will be taken on specially fitted trains to one of MixteVn localized hoi-pittil groups, a here aisiKmnenta will be made in such wiiv that each of the wounde men will ko tmrk tn the re- ! gion frfm which he entered the service. ser-vice. The croups serving territory west of th.- Mistl'pt follow: Cooper-MonaTha hotel. Chicago; general gen-eral hospital. Ft Sheridan, and base hoppital. amp Grant. General hospital". llo( Springs and Ft Ixtg an H . Koot A i k . and ba se hortpitiils, C:imp I'ike. Beauregard and She Ui . Gciu-ral hopit.tls. Ft. Ies Moinesand ht, Sticllnig. hiuI baie hospital. Camp IXMljje General hospitals. Ft. Bayard. N. .M.; Whipple Barracks. Aril ; Ienver. Cnl'i., and bane hospitals. Camp Cody ami Ft Kilev. General hfspital. Ctirpus Chrintl, Tex., and base hoHpit iN, Camps IHkhii, Travi. McArihur and Bowie, and at Kt Sim Houston. Ft. Si! I and Ft. Ilhss. .Cteneral hospital.t. It. iHMjglas, I'tah, and I'reHidio, San Francisco, and base hospitals. Camps Kearny. Fremont and Lewie. The above dispatch indicates that wounded men whtme homes are In I'tah, Idaho, wfHtern Wyoming, western west-ern Colorado, southern .Montana and eastern Nevada will probably be sent J to the-hospiff 1 at Ft. fHuglas. f Several coiiiraf fH have already been I awarded by the war department for j work to l-e done to convert the wsti Into a hospital. Some of the build- ' ings' are now available for the re- i ception of honpltal eaje . When all tbe bulldinaa sre corn- i plfted it is beiieved there will be j accommodation for at least IS'aj men' at a t(me. i Ical military ofH lals beHe' e that j sftme Wfiundett men sent to 'K;isternj' h'mi'itals will be TanferreU here as i i soon aa conditions permit. |