The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-04-24
AMBULANCE
CORPS ORGANIZED
LIKE FIELD ARMY
BY WILBUR s. FORESTER
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United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS. April "a. When Ameri-
cans return TO Paris after the war.
they will probably have pointed out
to them the former headquarters Of
the American Ambulance army dur
ing the big war. Today these head
quarters are extremely active and
busy
Ii is the American Ambulance
Field Service. The Commander in
Chief. : directing the work Of hun
dreds OF American youths who drive
on all French battle fronts is a..
tsiatE ANDREW. formerly of La Porte
lad late of eieaea Mass., and
former assistant af TIE q
s. Treasury III gfea.
None Of tile comma nders-in.
ehisf Of the big armies IN the field
kgsaM more about fAelf forces every
minute Of the day than does the for
mer Heosier about his little Ameri-
can army. He knews, by daily re-
ports, every important move made
by the hundreds Of cars in the field
'faw many cars are n and out OF
commission how many have been
Vrseked or destroyed bg shells.
sew many ears are enroute from
America and how much help the
American service can give the
French army next week Or next
month.
Almost every part of America is
represented in the rambling old
Eighteenth century mansion which
houses Andrews headquarters.
Aside from contributions from many
sources, more than seventy Amer
lean universities and colleges have
sent their students 10 save French
life on the battle fields. Never less
than 800 ambulanees are engaged in
crossed the Atlantic and have been
put into commission since the war
began Between seventy and eighty
have been destroyed. The first car
10 leave headquarters for the front
is still partly in commission.
Two big garages and workshops
attached to the Paris headquarters
repair and re-eauip the American
cars when the damage Is bad II it
is trivial, the work is done by NOV
ing repair shops on the field.
A few hours before the United
Press correspondent called at head
quarters a message had arrived that
three cars had been destroyed by
single shell on the Sofnme Within a
short time three newly repaired cars
were on their way to replace the
wrecks.
The young American college men
who enlisted in America for the am
bulance service have to date received
IS citations in French army orders
for valor. The decorations include
two Military Medals and IS Croix
de Guerre. Two drivers have been
killed BY shells, some have died of
pneumonia and many have been
3 ounded. Among the latter is Will
liam Barber OF Toledo. O., who has
recovered and returned to the front
The American cars are known in
almost every scene OF campaign on
the French ffont--on the User.
Aisne, somme. in Champagne. at
Yerdun, m the hfgonne Woepre, Lor-
rain, Alsaca and in the Balkans,
There s. All american atmosphere
ahoat tise headasartefs ri the Ser
yioq u I'asis Iae#es - eassy one
e. tie o43est saefa g fAe el3, on
the Seine and within shouting dis
tance Of the famous Elftal tower, the
be3ldias IS aaaasf hg tep acre
uafk In Wiith aen8amn Franklin
first msde his tests with the light
ming rod. The structure contains
The offices OF the executives of the
Service in The upper portion and be-
Tow lyrical college dormitories
where the young Americans rest
and sleep while 10 training for
s5eIaer duty at the front Notwitli-
standing the German submarine
blockade more Of these young Amer
leans ard motor cars arrived here in
February than during any other
saonth. The number OF men was
li2, from states as far west as
California, and the cars were $40.
The work of the Ambulance Ser
vice is carried on by American funds.
But all contributions 10 date have
been small though numerous. 1t was
learned today To face the big cam
paigns in which the French army
viii soon be involved the Service will
need great help from the American
people