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Show AMBULANCE SECTION CITED FOR BRAVERY By International News Service. NEW YORK. May 2S. United States ambulance section S2:'., popularly known ' as the Princeton university unit, which has seen service in the Champagne and Noyon sectors in France since September, Septem-ber, 1917, has been accorded the unusual honor of a citation by a French army corps commander for "absolute contempt of danger and the highest consciousness of duty." News of the citation was re- ceived today in the form of an order is- sued by General Lecomte. commanding ' the Thirty-third army corps. The translation trans-lation of the citation follows: General Headquarters, April 29, 191S. Ill Army, 23rd Army Corps, Etat-major. Etat-major. Order No. 171. The general commanding the 33rd army corps cites with "the order of army corps." Section Sanataire A r.erican (S. S. 1 '. 523), commanded by Lieutenant Mette and T.ieutenp ut Butkicwit z, during tho lighting at Noyon and Mt. (Continued on Page Sixteen.) of the dance each Thursday night during the season. i will be "The Birth of Patriotism," a story filled with intense interest, throbbing emotionalism and human passions. It Is tbe story of the love of two women for a man one, his wife; the other, an English Eng-lish barmaid. There will be four performances each day at the free moving-picture theater at " and 5 o'clock in tne afternoons and at 7 and 9 o'clock In the evenings. A special feature of the big dance scheduled for Thursday night will be the singing of the Aerial quartet for the dancing. This singing will be a feature AMBULANCE SECTION CITEO FOR BRAVERY (Continued from Page One.) Renaud from March 25 to April 8, 1918, assured the evacuation of the wounded in perfect manner, under the most violent bombardment, with an absolute contempt for danger and the highest consciousness of duty. (Signed) LBCOMTB. United States ambulance section 323 is composed entirely of Princeton university men, tbirtv-six of them, who volunteered last summer to engage In the dangerous work of rescuing wounded men from tiie battlefields. They went to the Allentown camp for training in June and saw their first lield service in France In September, since which time they have been constants con-stants at work and in constant danger. Ambulances have been blown to pieces. One of the young drivers was killed and six gassed and put out oY action ac-tion during the last gTeat German drive. |