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Show AMBULANCE DRIVERS. No surprise will be caused by the announcement an-nouncement that the American ambulance ambu-lance drivers stuck to their posts through the hottest part of the Chateau Thierr3' attack. A great many of the ambulance drivers hail from Harvard, Princeton and Yale, and many of them went over to help take care of the French wounded almost al-most as soon as the war broke out in 1914. They w ere taken over by General Pershing after the United States entered en-tered the conflict, and have been "doing "do-ing their bit" in magnificent style ever since. The drivers who went upon the field at Chateau Thierry did not escape the rain of shot and shell. The dispatches dis-patches say "several were killed, a number wounded and some are missing." miss-ing." The names of two of the killed and one of the wounded were ' given. They belonged to the Harvard section or the Princeton unit, and .their names will be inscribed upon the records of the great educational institutions and probably upon monuments erected after the war. Their memory will also be cherished by their fellow countrymen for whom they died. Upon the bravery and alertness of the ambulance drivers and stretcher-bearers depend the lives of countless thousands of wounded men who are unable to crawl off the field of battle. All honor to, the collegians and others who dare death daily in order or-der that the wounded may live. |