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Prince Bernhard having a sandwich Iunob with his adjutant during a tour of laspection of Dutch Army manœuvres,

AMERICANS

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PARIS, (UP). - American youths will once again hear the shrill whine of German shells, although the United States to- day is no more a belligerent thon: she was in 1914.

the

The youths will be members of American Field Service Corps, volunteer ambulance drivers similar to the ones who carried more than 500,000 wounded soldiers for the French army during the last war before America became a belligerent.

Ambassador William, Bullitt has accepted, the post of honorary presi- dent of the committee in America which is now being formed. The committee, with sub-contres in all largo cities in the United States, hos obtained a licence from the State De- partment and will begin to

solicit funds soon.

Sign Contract

The State Department, committer heads said, has promised to extend all facilities in Issuing passports to men recommended by the committee. Men will sign a six-month contracti with the committee. They will not be attached officially to the French army but will be under orders given by Americans,

HE DROVE HIS

OLD BUS

life.

LONDON.-In, civil Driver W. A. Wood, now sery- ing in France with the R.AS.C. drove a van for a Chippenham laundry.

When war broke out, he was mobilised as a member of the Supplementary Reserve.

Soon he was driving cnmou. Onged lorries from a disem- barkation port in France to the Army in the field.

In a letter home to his sister, he said there "seemed to Je something very familiar" about one of the lorries.

There was for when he examined it, he found it was one he had driven before. The Army had commandeered it from the Inundry.

LATE NEWS

Two Classes Called Up

Ambulance sections cent to the front will be composed of 32 am- ROME, Feb. 14 (UP),-Italy has bulances, of which two, including a fullest up the 1910 and 1920 classes staff cur and truck with kitchen for regular military service.

Now Organisation

AS

Diplomatie

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Allies Are Taking No Risks

Editor's Noto: While the "West Front," that sector of the French-German fron- tier between the Moselle and Rhine, is most pub. Ilcised because all of the activity has centred there since hostilities started. there are other frontiers where the Allied forces are holding strategic defence positions. In the follow- ing dispatch Ralph Heinzen, United Press correspondent, describes the military situa- tion on the snowbound French-Swiss and French- Italian Alpino frontiers

By RALPH HEINZEN (UNITED PRESS STAFF

CORRESPONDENT).

PARIS, (UP-By Air Express). -From the southern extremily of the Maginot Line opposite the gap of Belford to the Medi- terranean stretches the quiet, 300-mile long "white front."

In snows high in the Juras und the Alps where the fron- tiers are drawn across glaciers and inaccessible rocks, the French army is stretched along the borders of two neighbour- ing neutrals-Switzerland and Italy.

Snowbound Army

Snowbound at an altitude well over 6,000-feet this army has not fred a shot but its mission is vital because it protects France against a surprise thrust If Kitler

ever ut- tempts to turn

end one

of the Maginot Line by passing through a neutral corridor. French patrols on

akis keep a border watch which in many respects resembles conditions in Finland where ski corps also are

playing A major role. Like the

Finns, these French troops wear white smocks which make them al- most invisible in the snow.

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These hundreds of thousands of French troops are snowed in for the winter and are cut off from bases in the lower valleys. Snow and we which all the fura and Alpine passes, however, ore no barrier to invasion.

Historical Precedants

There are historical precedents be- traiter, will be held in reserve. Service is obligatory for all able- cause Napoleon, in one of his first tnok his whole ay Thirty Americans will form the per-bodied men dve feet or

over in verations.

across the Alps and dragged his height. sonnel of each section.

In army zones, the volunteers will

quarters bcquainted cannon through Saint Bernard Pass be subject to control by the military with Italo-Hungarinn relations con- 10 fall on the unsuspecting Italians

of sider that the reported presence of the

in authorities as are all civilians

Lombardy and Piedmont French and foreign nationality. The Hungarian milltary mission in Italy plains. Am centuries earlier, Han- SATURDAY first-unit-is-not-expected to go-to-the indicates an impending Italo-Hungar-nibal and his Carthagenfans 216

B.C. crossed The A

The Alps by the Mount front for two or three months.

RKO ̃Picturo jats union with King Victor Ennuuenevre

Passes with elephant fashion to

to the Italo-Albanian

intan union. cavalry and battled the Romans in The American hospital at Neuilly It is understood that the Hungarian the lowland, Hannibal had half of his African soldiers frozen to death previously had indicated if would mission consists of General Staff

in the Alps but Napoleon proved form its own ambulance corps, but technicians and its

that a modern

could cross artny with the organization of the American sents the first step towards repre field service, wounded will be tran- Well-informed circles in Budapest those high mountains without enor- sported to the hospital from the front are frankly amused by these reports, mous losses although called upon to

the new

new organization. ization.

and point out that the rumours of an support intense suffering. When the United States entered the anschluss have been circulating in

Sportsman's Paradise Jast

war, the field service had over Hungary for over a week.

Fifteen truck!

Such

union is regarded In Even for those troops holding the 15 FO sinecure, after America able at the present moment, espeelai-Those Alpine slopes are normally # a belligerent, and these, ag ly in view of the fact that Italo-winter sportsman's paradise but night | well as

as the ambulance sections, were Hungarian relations, for from im-patrola in biting frost are a fierce incorporated in the American Ex-proving, have worsened as a result test of human endurance.

of Hungary's hostile attitude towards The Alps are peditionary Force.

are held from the French There were 3,000 volunteers from Rumania.

sido by permanent fortresses of new all states of the union and from more Indications of continued tension concrele casements, ond every posi- than 100 universities and colleges. between Hungary and Rumania option commanding the passes They served with 60 French divisions peared with publication of an inspired valleys is held with automalle arms. and carried more than 500,000 wound-attack on Rumania in the Hungarian The French general staff feels that ed and over 6,000,000 shells,

Government's official organ, the no enemy invader could pass. "Pesterlloyd", in is morning's Three years ago work was begun Centralise U.5. Aid.

Issue.

in the blockhouses which, now com- After the war, the fleld service coa-! The article accused the Rumanian bined with natural obstacles, appear tinued to maintain contact with the pollee of arresting and torturing 30 to intke this frontier impregnable. trustees in America, who sent rellef Hungarian youths resident in the Every dominating position holds ob- funds to France. They also contri-Temiscara district of Transylvania.servation posts and secret air do- buted 10 the Franco-American The article was published under large fences are elaborale,

the and alleges that museum at Belancourt, which was headlines, dedicated by an American delegation Rumanian police raided a Hungari tesidence on the pretext that an ne- in September, 1938.

liy

became munitions Budapest as being extremely improbe "white front"

30 sections in sections for had bren

The service will probably now ab-tive llegal organisation existed. All sorb and centralise all American they found, states the article, were

or some harmless Hungarian books. medical units presently being ganized, including the Iroquois Am-

bulance corps and the former Ameri-

can Legion corps.

Another American committee has

with

been formed to collect books which to form circulating libraries for the use of French soldiers at the front. Books have already been for warded, especially to the Salvation Army's "Foyer du Scidat" at Nancy.

A "Committee of Young Americans at Southwest France and the Basque Const" is also seeking funds with which to purchase four ambulances for the French army medical service,

Bachelor Peer Loses Leg

hia

LONDON, Nov. 13-Earl Peel, Who 15 ne of the wealthiest bachelor peers, recently had to have

foot right

amputaled as a result of an accklent while he was shooting over a friend's Ham}}~ shira estate. He is reported to be making good progress. Our Own Correspondent.

If

and

correct and

Friendly Relations The troops enjoy friendly relations with the Swiss and tallon mountain battalions mounting guard on their sides of the frontier. Strategically, the Jura mountain

than those of the Alps. The cover ah 'area between the Alps and the Vosges and are directly north Lake Geneva. They are lower and LONDON. Feb. 14 (Domel), their rounded higher heights are not British official circles announce that comparable to the jagged rocks of the handing over of nine Germans, the Alps but the Juras are the "stop- in retention at Hongkong to Japan-per for the Basle corridor bottle- ese authorities would take place in neck. the near future.

NINE GERMANS defences are even more important

TO LEAVE SOON

the war When the

hey confirm that negotiations are Maginot Line war finished as far as

in progress between the Japanese southern Alsace, the French general and the British Governments regard- staff began fortifying the torrents ing definite arrangements. The date and towering gorges which comprise and methods of handing over have the Jura Chain. To-day those

for- been discussed between Mr. Tant, fentions ore completely Invisible, ปร Vico-Foreign Minister, and camouflaged among the natural cover Sic Robert Craigie, the British of pine forests or sunk into rocks. Ambassador at Tokyo,

For centurios the French-Swiss treaties had forbidden any fortifica- tion of their mutual boundaries but the Swiss Coolly realised that they, liko Belgium in 1914, were tempting in the corridor, '80, with Swiss consent, the French began fortifying the Juras three years ago and the lost concrote was poured only a few days before this winter's } first snow fell

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