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Show i Ambulance Unit Wiped Out by German Bombers HAVRE, Oct. 10. The headquarters of the Friends' ambulance unit, an organization or-ganization of 350 workers from nil sec-lions sec-lions of America sent to the western front by tho American Society of Friends, has been almost completely wined out by bombs dropped from Ger man airplanes. Two of the staff were killed and four injured. The others wcro snfe. The story of the disaster is told in a report of Major John Van Schaick, deputy commissioner in Belgium of the American Red Cross, of which the Friends' ambulance Is a unit, who says: & "A worker whom wo had placed with the unit was sleeping in the room with one of those who was killed. Ho was not Injured. Ho- described his experience exper-ience as follows: "I was awake when the bomb fell. I don't remomber much noise, only the motion. Tho whole room seemed to lurch back toward 'Where the bomb foil, and then went down. Wc foil fast and seemed to be falling into eternity. My life was saved by my bed shooting across the room. The cupola of the adjoining building Tell where my bed stood. "The adjutant of the unit was buried bur-ied under the debris for thrco hours. A large oak chest held a beam off his neck. They had to tunnel through the j debris to get him ouL He was con- scions pari of the time, and directed the rescuers in their work. He was bruised but not seriously hurl." |