ROOSEVELT'S SON KILLED IN FRANCE
Paris, July 17. Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt wae killed in the fighting iu France—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. . [Quentin, tho youngest son of Theodora Roosevelt, ex-President of U.S.A., II) years old, was selected as one of the first twelve American aviators to go to tho front in France. "I would not have stopped him if I could," said Mr. Roosevelt, "and I could not have slopped him. if I would. Moreover, tho moroAmerican boys of from 19 to 21 join the Army the better it is for tho country. To take them out of our civil lite entails tho smallest economic loss upon the country, and because d their plasticity and great powers of recuperation they arc its greatest military asset. ]
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 258, 19 July 1918, Page 5
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123ROOSEVELT'S SON KILLED IN FRANCE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 258, 19 July 1918, Page 5
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