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Word was received via cablegram yesterday that two units of men who are to serve at the front and among whom are included a number of members and alumni of the University, have safely arrived in France. One of the 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...
Thirty members of the University are scheduled to sail from New York today for France, to serve in the American Ambulance Field Service. These men will go to Bordeaux on the steamer Chicago of the French Line, the same ship that carried the contingent from the University last February. The sailing of the boat has been held over since last Saturday. Beside the men from the University, the Chicago will take two units from the University of California, one from the University of Illinois, one from the Washington University of St. Louis, and 80 other men from colleges and universities...
Previous to his going to Newport News, Curtis was in the service of the American Embassy in Paris. He returned on the steamer with Ambassador Gerard's party, and shortly after arriving in America he went to Newport News to take up the aviation training...
Twenty-nine members of the University have signed up to join the American Ambulance Field Service in France. This contingent is scheduled to sail from New York for Bordeaux on May 19. Some Steamer of the French Line will take the unit across. Applications to join the Ambulance Service have been pouring in so fast from all over the country that all accommodations for sailing up to June 2 have already been filled. In all, 192 men will go May 19 to drive ambulances, 203 the following week, and 165 on June 2. Many of these men have signed...
Only it would be too bad if one of those nice Untersee Booten should grow rapacious for the Dutch steamer on which the Count sails, and the sinking of another liner be celebrated in Berlin. That fear beset us with respect to Count von Bernstorff. It is repeated with intensity for Count von Tarnow...