GIBBON, JOHN

(1826-96); an Amer soldier, 6. in Pennsylvania. He grad: uated from West Point in 1847 anc served through the Civil War, rising t the rank of major-general. He wa retired in 1891. (1887), war correspondent; 6. in Wash College and George town University 1907 began newspaper work. Sine 1912 was on staff of Chicago Tribune In December, 1914, began work as wa correspondent, In 1915 with Francisc Villa as correspondent. =: In March 1916, reported Villa’s raid on Columbus New Mexico. Accompanied Genera Pershing on his dash into Mexico ‘Wrote articles on condition of troops o1 Mexican Border. In 1917 was Londo1 correspondent of Chicago Tribune Pa enger on 8. S. Laconia, which wa, torpedoed and sunk off the Irish Coas in 1917 and cabled four you sand wor account of disaster. "Was war corres pondent in France, 1918. Lost sight o one eye at Battle of Chateau Thierry Foreign director of Chicago Tribune Decorated by French and _ Italia, governments, Anglo-Dutch wood carver and sculptor executed the White hall statue of Jame II.; chiefly celebrated for extreme beaut; and delicacy of his wood-carving 1880), an American i.: mapolis, Md. He graduated from th William Penn Charter School, in Phila delphia, in 1897, and from the Prince to Theological Seminary, in 1908, afte which he was ordained a Presbyter i a minister. Shortly after he began hi career as a foreign corresponden t fc American papers and magazines, specia izing on international politics. Among this books are The New Map of Europe, 1914; The New Map of Asta, 1919; France and Ourselves, 1920; and Bases of