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Dawson (CONINGSBY WILL- IAM)

CONINGSBY (WILL- IAM), an American author, born at High Wycombe, England, in 1883, the son of William James Dawson. He graduated from Merton College , Cambridge, in 1905, and in the same year came to America, where he traveled as special correspondent for several English newspapers. He was literary adviser to publishers from 1910 to 1913. In 1916 he joined the Canadian 1st Division at the front as lieutenant of the Field Artillery and served until the end of the war. In 1917 he was wounded. After serving with the British Ministry of Information he rejoined the Canadian forces in the spring of 1918. He was again wounded DAY in September of that year. He delivered lectures in the United States under the auspices of the British Mission in November and December, 1918, and in 1919- 1920 he lectured throughout the United States on the results of the war. He was the author of "The Worker and Other Poems" (1906); "The Garden without Walls" (1913); "The Raft" (1914); "Carry On" (1917); "The Glory of the Trenches" (1918); and "The Test of Scarlet" (1919). He also wrote several volumes of poems. DAWSON (FRANCIS) WARRING- TON, an American writer and lecturer, born in Charleston, S. C., in 1878.

He was educated in France and in the Charleston College. He engaged in newspaper work and acted as special correspondent in Spain, Russia, and other countries of Europe. He was American war correspondent with the French Armies from 1914 to 1916. In 1917 he was appointed attaché of the American Embassy at Paris and served as special assistant in that post until 1919. He was well known as a lecturer in the United States and in Europe. He was a member of the first neutral commission sent by the French Ministry of War to investigate the use of asphyxiating gases by the German army on the Anglo-French front in April, 1915. He was the author of "The Scar " (1906); "The Scourge" (1908); and "The True Dimension" (1916).