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PARIS,

(UP). — American youths will once again hear the shrill whine of German shells, although the United States 10- day is no more a belligerent than she was in 1914.

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

Ambassador William Bullit has accepted the post of honorary presi- dent of the committee in America which is now being formed. The cummittee, with sub-centres in all large cities in the United States, has obtained a licence from the State De-

HE DROVE HIS

OLD BUS

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

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

Soon he was driving camou Onged lorries from a disem. barkatian port in France to the Army in the field.

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

There was for when he examined . he found it was one he had driven bofore. The Army had commandeered it from the laundry.

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Editor's Note: While the "West Front," that 'sector of the French-German fron- tier between the Moselle and Rhine, Is most pub- ficised 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 situm- tion on the snowbound French-Swiss and French- Italian Alpine frontiers

By RALPH HEINZEN (UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT)

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

the

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

Snowbound Army Snowbound at an altitude weil over 8,000-feet this army has not fired a shot but its mission is vital because It protects France against

end of the

surprise thrust it lifter ever at- tempts to turn one Maginot Line by passing through a neutral corridor. French patrols on skis keep a border watch which fu many respects resembles conditions In Finland where ski corps also are playing 01 major role. Like the Finns, these French troops wear white smocks which make them al-

nst invisible in the snow.

These hundreds of thousands of French troops are snowed in for the winter and are cut off from bases which fit the Jura and Alpine passes, however, are no barrier to invasion. Historical Precedents

in the lower valleys. Snow and ice

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heads said, has promised to extend LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter)-With all facilities in issuing passports to the view to expediting Production men recommended by the committee. and delivery of cotton goods to meet Men will sign a six-month contract Government requirements and export with the committee. They will not orders, a system of preference direc- be attached officially to the French tlons will be brought into operation army but will be under orders given under the control of the cotton in by Americans.

Ambulance sections sent to

The order will be issued to-day ont will be composed of 32 am-empowering the Minister of Supply to bulances, of which two, including a issue directions to producers and dis-

There are historical precedents be- staff car and

truck with kitchen tributors in the cotton industry to trailer, will be held

reserve.give preference to the production and cause Napoleon, in one of his first in

contractsnerations, took his whole army Thirty Americans will form the per-delivery of goods under connel of each section.

made with Government departments across the Alps and dragged his In army zones, the volunteers will or for other approved purpose des- cannon through Saint Bernard Pass be subject to control by the military nite obligations to which they may to fall on the unsuspecting Italians authorities as are all civilians of be subject-under-contracts for which in French and foreign nationality. The no directions have been issued, for plains. And centuries earlier, Han- SATURDAY- first unit not expected to go to the example, orders for home trade. front for two or three months.

New Organisation

The American hospital at Neuilly would previously had indicated It form its own ambulance corps, but with the organization of the American fleld service, wounded will be tran- sported to the hospital from the front by the new organization..

When the United States entered the last war, the field service had over 30 sections in operation.

Fifteen truck sections for transporting munitions had been organized after America become belligerent, and these, as well as

as the ambulance sections, were Incorporated in the American Ex- peditionary Force,

There were 3,000 volunteers from all states of the union and from more than 100 universities and colleges.

They served with 60 French divisions and carried more than 300,000 woundă- ed and over 8,000,000 shells.

Centralise U.S. Ald ..

After the war, the field service con- tinued to maintain contact with the trustees in America, who sent relief; funds to France. They also contri- buted to the Franco-American museum at Belancourt, which was dedicated by an American delegation

September, 1938.

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service will probably now ab- sorb and centralise all American medical units

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Another American committee has been

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

A "Committee of Young Americans of Southwest France and the Basque Coast" is also wecklog funda with which to purchase four, anibulances for the French army medical service:

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LONDON, Nov. 13-Earl Pool, who is one of the wealthiest bachelor peers, recently had havo his right foot amputated na a result of an accident while he was shooting over a friend's · Hamp- shiro estate. IIe is reported to bo making good progress-Our Oton Correspondent.

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the Lombardy and Piedmont

nibai and his Carthagenians 218 B.C.-crossed the Alps by the Mount

Genevre Passes with elephant

cavalry and bottled the Romans in the lowland. Hannibal had bult of his African soldiers frozen to death in the Alps but Napoleon proved that a modern army could cross those high mountains without enor- mous losses although called upon to support Intense suffering.

Sportsman's Paradiso

Even for those troops holding the "white front" it is no sinecure. Those Alpine slopes are normally a winter sportsman's paradise but night patrols in biting frost are a flerce test of human endurance.

The Alps are held from the French

by permanent fortresses of new concrete casements, ond every posi- tion commanding the passes and valleys is held with automatic arms: The French general staff feels that no enemy invader could pass.

Three years ago work was begun in the blockhouses which, now com- bined with natural obstacles, appear to make this frontier impregnable. Every dominating position holds ob- servation posts and secret air do- fences are elaborate.

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The troops enjoy correct friendly relations with the Swiss and Itallan mouniain battalions mounting guard on their sides of the frontier. Strategically, the Jura mountain defences are even more important than those of the Alps. The Juras an area between the Alps and cover

north the Vosges and are directly

ΟΙ Lake Geneva. They are lower and their rounded higher heights are not of comparable to the jagged rocks the Alps but the Juras are the "stop- per for the Baslo. corridor bottle- neck.

Long before the

when the Maginot Line war finished as far as Enuthern Alsace, the French general ataft began fortifying the torrents and towering gorges which comprise the Jura Chain. To-day those for- tifications are comple natural cover invisible, camouflaged among the of pine forests or sunk into rocks.

TO-MORROW & SATURDAY". For centuries, the French-Swiss trentinand forbidden any fortifica- tion of their mutual boundaries but

Thrilling Western Drama Packed With Blood-Tingling Action ! the Swiss finally realised that they, RANDOLPH SCOTTS JA

“FRONTIER MARSHAL”. like Belgium in 1014, were 100 NANCY KELLY! in Ta tempting in the corridor, so, with Swiss consent, the French began fortifying the Juras three years ago 'and the font concrete, was poured. only a few days before this winter's first know fell.

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