VOLUNTEERS WANTED FOR THE AMERICAN AMBULANCE

The following letter from the head of the American Ambulance Field Service is self-explanatory:

May I ask the privilege of your columns to call to the attention of your readers the pending formation by the American Ambulance Field Service in France of Several new sections, and the opportunity which will be available during the next months for an additional number of volunteers who are interested in France and who would like to be of service there ?

We have already more than 200 cars driven by American volunteers, mostly university men, grouped in sections which have served at the front in Flanders, on the Somme, on the Aisne, in Champagne, at Verdun (five sections including 120 cars at the height of the battle) in Lorraine and in reconquered Alsace, and one of our veteran sections has received the signal tribute from the French army staff of being attached to the French army of the Orient in the Balkans. We are now on the point of greatly enlarging our service for the last lap of the war, and a considerable number of new places are available.

Every American has reason to be proud of the chapter which these few hundred American youths have written into the history of this prodigious period. Each of the several sections of the American Ambulance Field Service as a whole and fifty-four of their individual members have been decorated by the French army with the Croix de Guerre or the Médaille Militaire for valor in the performance of their work.

The nature of this work, and the reason for these remarkable tributes from the army of France, is clearly presented in the official report of the first year and a half's service published by Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston, under the title of "Friends of France."

Information as to the requirements of and qualifications for the service will be gladly sent by Henry D. Sleeper from the Boston Headquarters of the Field Service at Lee Higginson & Co., 40 State Street, or may be obtained from William R. Hereford at the New York Headquarters, 14 Wall Street.

The American Ambulance Field Service has recently been described by a member of General Joffre's staff as the finest flower of the magnificent wreath offered by the Great America to her little Latin sister."

There are surely many more of the sterling youths of America who would like to add their little to that wreath. The following men from Dartmouth have been members of the American Ambulance Field Service:

L. T. Burgess '18 G. Dock Jr. '16 R. N. Hall '15 L. P. Hall '11 J. M. Killeen '16 H. B. Lines '12 J. D. Little '16 G. B. McClary '14 A. T. Miles '16 C. A. Potter '17 P D. Smith '15 L. V. Tefft '17 A. L. Howell '16

Inspector General,American Ambulance Field Service.