The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-28
GIVE 15OO MEN OPPORTUN|TYTO
 CROSS WATER
Enrolment With Red Cross Means Immediate Ser
 vice in France

Fifteen hundred men are wanted to drive auto trucks and serve as mechanicians for the American Red Cross in France, they are wanted bad ly and they are wanted now, accord ing to a statement made by Alfred Nester, who is in Bridgeport to re- cruit as many men not liable to draft as he can get.
 Every man who has a hankering to get on active service, but who has been rejected from either, the Ameri- can Allied armies, on account of physi- cal defects has chance to do his bit. to get into the very thick of the con- f1ict- without any of the tedious months of waiting in a training camp or big military base.
 Alfred Nester has spent more than half year in the Verdun sector of the Western front, beside which he has been attached to the French Armies in many other sectors of the field and has returned to America after more than a year of active ser vice to recruit the badly needed auto drivers and mechanicians for the Red Cross. His office is located in Room 308 Bridgeport National Bank build ing.
 According to a statement given out by this soldier of the Red Cross, who has lived through the Help of Yer dun, there are thousands and thous- ands of Christmas packages piled up at French seaports addressed to our boys in the trenches, but which ean- not be moved on account of the shortage of automobile drivers. There are hundreds of auto trucks, but as they lack crews they are as good as l useless.
 Another thing which Alfred Nester wishes to impress upon all prospective recruits is the fact that they will l be attached to General Pershing' | forces and will move forward with | the United States Army when it gets 1 to going across the Rhine. He said | that the American troops occupy ter ritory which is destined to be the most important stretch of the entire
 allied line. It is within sight o1
 the towers of Metz, the great German | fortress, and against which the Fran
 co-American armies are sure tc l launch an attack sometime in the flu.
 ture.
 | Another thing which is an inviting
 factor is the fact that many of the men recruited here will in all prob.
 ability be sent to the Italian front as
 soon as all the Red Cross units are | organized for tha tserviee.
 All citizens of the allied countrie:
 are eligible for this service. The! l must be exempt from draft, mus
 have thorough knowledge of automo
 bile driving or be mechanics familiar
 with gasoline motors. They will b.
 paid the sum of $36 per month ana
 will be completely found with kit.
 One of the big features of the Rec Cross service is that the accepted re
 cruits will in all probability be o1
 their way to France within the nex three weeks and within another weel be on or near the firing line. O
 course a great many of them will b. detailed to different bases of sup plies of the men reach tn
 sprinkling of the men reach tn front ana nave clOSe up Ol the HSnI
 ing.
 Alfred Nester stated that the me will be first put to hauling all tn : Christmas packages now piled up a the seaports to the boys in tn trenches The huge conveys of aut trucks will travel from the port c disembarkation overland to Paris 0
 some other big center and from tha point to the scene of military opera tions.
 The men will be provided with a expenses while. en route to Franc and any time that they may spend i French cities their hotel and othe expenses will be paid by the Re Cross. There will be certai
 amount of leave of absence al1owe
 each man at stated periods and h
 will have the great satisfaction (
 knowing that he is doing his bit (
 his country and for a world wid l democracy.