Word: ports
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cablegrams stated that the steamer Chicago, bearing 16 undergraduates who are enrolled in the American Ambulance Field Service has landed its passengers at Bordeaux. The other cable announced that the three graduates of the University who sailed to join the Lafayette Flying Corps, and disembarked at the same port...
...corps will land at Bordeaux by the 10th of the month, it is expected; and from this port it will be transferred to Paris. There the customary period of preparation and instruction in driving will be spent, after which the unit will be dispatched to the front and its vicinity for work in the base and field hospitals...
...organizing ambulance units is new at Princeton but has taken a great hold on the students as witnessed by the fact that arrangements have been made to send over these 73 men very soon after the recruiting was first begun. The men will probably go direct to a French port, from thence to Paris, and after a brief stay in Paris will be assigned to various sections at the front...
...addition to these war measures, it was reported early this morning that the Collector of the Port of Boston had received instructions to immediately seize all the German merchant ships here interned. In taking this step the Government has greatly increased our merchant marine at the expense of the enemy...
...German ships which have been lying in our harbors since war began without a chance of reaching a home port have received, and as far as possible, carried out orders from the German Government to the effect that they be disabled so that for many months they would not be able to go to sea. The utmost that could be expected by these ships would be permission to leave port within a few days after hostilities began, Disabled vessels, not able to fulfill this condition, could expect no immunity...