Word: ports
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...Ambulance and served in the Vosges Mountains through the winter of 1915. For bravery in action during the intense attack by the Germans, lasting over a month, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and promoted to sous-lieutenant. In this capacity he served at Malzeville, Verdun and Port-a-Mousson, distinguishing himself at all times by his executive ability and coolness under shell-fire. Last September, he returned to this country for the purpose of recruiting a new section of the Ambulance, which he subsequently did, getting 20 ambulances from the New York Stock Exchange. On his return...
...eligible for the position: Edward Beach Condon '18, of New York, N. Y.; Rudolph Hermann Kissel, Jr., '19, of Morristown, N. J.; Alan Rhys Martin '19, of Cambridge; William Otho Morgan '18, of Highland Park, III.; George Almy Percy '18, of Arlington; Thomas Chandler Thacher, Jr., '18, of Yarmouth Port; Greenough Townsend '18, of Oyster...
...treaties and international law bearing on the case, Professor Hart points out that it is clear that any provision therein made or proposed was for the purpose of giving "to innocent owners of vessels and cargoes which happen to be caught in what becomes an enemy's port an opportunity to save their ships and lading." Neither the treaties nor the law, however, foresaw nor took account of the peculiar circumstances of the German ships in the ports of the United States...
...Forrest Fay Pike, M.D. '98 and Dr. Paul Hector Provandie, M.D. '98, of the Harvard Surgical Unit with the British Expeditionary Force "somewhere in France," which sailed last November, returned home last week. They arrived in port on the Andania, the steamer which recently carried the latest Harvard Unit led by Dr. Hugh Cabot '94 to Europe. The Andania, with a convoy of torpedo boats left a British port, the passage requiring 12 days instead of the customary 10, due to the course taken as laid down by the British Admiralty. Nothing eventful occurred during the trip through...
...Herbert H. White '93, manager of the Harvard Surgical Unit and the British Military Hospital Contingent, stating that the steamship Andania, carrying the University contingent under the direction of Dr. Hugh Cabot '94, has arrived safely in England. On account of the strictness of the British War Office the port of landing was not announced, but the cablegram stated that all the members of the party arrived safely, and were proceeding to London. The members of the unit, which is composed of graduates of the Medical School, will go directly from London to the British Hospital base in France...