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Show DARTMOUTH GRADUATE IS KILIEBY SHELL Grave Bears the Inscription, j "Richard Hall, an American, Ameri-can, Died for France' IMPRESSIVE SERVICES Brother on Way Back to U. 5. With Part of Ambulance Presented by Students. PARIS, Dec. SI, 4:5 p. m. (delayed in transmission.) The cross of war was pinned upon the French flag which covered the body of Richard Hall, a Dartmouth graduate, who was killed early on Christmas morning by a German Ger-man shell while driving an American ambulance near HartmaimB-Weiler-kopf. A letter of condolence from General Jofi're, the French commander-in-chief, has been sent to Robert Bacon, president presi-dent of the committee of the American hospital at Neuilly. A. Piatti Andrew, inspector general in the American ambulance in the field, has returned to Paris from Alsace, where "he attended the f .up era of the young volunteer, .'-tie saiU: 'HaH" was buried with honors of war in an Alsatian valley which once more belongs to France. His grave, in a crowded military cemetery, ceme-tery, is next that of a French officer of-ficer who fell the same morning. It bears the brief inscription, ' '.Richard Hall, an American, who died for France." Grave Is Adorned. Simple mountain people, in the only part of Germany where foreign for-eign soldiers are today, brought to the grave many wreaths of native flowers and Christmas greens. These people have lived now for nearly a year and a half in danger dan-ger of their own lives and in daily contact with the dead and the dying. dy-ing. But the sacrifice of this modest, mod-est, devoted .young American has found a place in their hearts and T was told by at least three fam- J ilies that they would keep flowers on the grave until the end of the war, when they hoped Hall's parents pa-rents could visit it. Hall was hilled by a stray shell at a lonely turn in the road up the mountain which German guns try intermittently to reach. His car was demolished and swept off the road. The shell struck him several sev-eral hours before day'break and a number of his comrades crawled in ambulances up and down the mountain moun-tain past the spot before the morning morn-ing revealed the occurrence. Luke Doyle, who at first was reported wounded at the same, time, was in fact, struck in tho arm by a shrapnel :spl inter four days before. be-fore. The first-aid station where he and other members of the ambulance am-bulance section were stationed, was..' under fire and everybody was '" forced to seek safety in' a bomb-.'' proof shalter, through -the door of which a nearly spent splinter of a shell entered. Service in Chapel. The . funeral service for Hall was held in a little Protestant chapel, five miles down the valley, usually attended by ninny officers and soldiers and natives of- the valley, but today reserved for Hall and his comrades, as the soldiers we're on duty on tho mountain I crest, where a fierce fight for Hartmanus-Weilerkopf still was waging. At the conclusion of the services Mall s citation was read and the cross of war pinned on the coffin. The body was then carried to the cemetery by Levering Hill, who ' commands this section, a French ' of fie or, an Fnglish officer and Stephen Gallnti. R, Matter and Allyn Jennings, his comrade. His brother. Louis Hall, walked direet- (Contiuued on Pag Two.) BIIOT GRADUATE IS KILLED BY SHELL (Continued from Page One.) y behind the coffin, and sixteen soldiers, belonging to a battalion on leave from the trenches, marched in file ou each side with arms reversed-. -Louis Hal has returned to Paris on his wav back to the United States. He will take with him. the riddled canvas side of the automobile ambulance which had been presented bv Dartmouth ..students ..stu-dents a-nd to the Alpha Delta Fhi.'tlie" fraternity of which Ji is brother, was a member, the steel helmet whicli he wore when killed will be presented. , |