MEDICAL UNIT REACHED ENGLAND

The second University Medical Unit has arrived safely at Falmouth, England, the "Nordam," of the Holland-American Line having docked early Saturday morning. The Unit is under the leadership of Dr. David Cheever's '97, professor of surgery in the Medical School, and includes 30 surgeons and 36 nurses. They will continue the work of the first Unit which was sent to Europe last June at the request of Sir William Ostler, of Oxford, England, and which has just completed a three months' tour of duty at a British Base Hospital near Boulogne on the French coast.

The 30 surgeons who comprise a surgical staff, a medical staff, dentists, and specialists in the eye and ear; the 36 graduate nurses who will supplement a corps of nurses who remained in Europe after the return of the first Unit, will complete the party. The Unit has been resulted on a basis of six months' service, but as some of the doctors will be unable to stay so long, their places will be filled as they return.

The party goes for service under the British War Office, under a clause in the Geneva Convention which allows neutral nations to send sanitary and medical aid to the scene of hostilities without sacrificing their neutrality. The members of the Unit will, therefore, not be commissioned as British officers, but will receive rank corresponding to that of officers.