AMBULANCES ARE APPRECIATED

A recent number of the Yale News prints the following communications from M. de Vogue, for the French Red Cross Society, and Cecil Spring-Rice, acting for Sir Edward Grey, representing the British Government, sent to the Yale Red Cross Relief Committee by Mabel T. Boardman, of the American Red Cross Relief Association, concerning the Yale and Harvard ambulances: British Embassy,   Washington, March 1, 1915.

Hon. John W. Davis, Counsellor of the American Red Cross

Sir:--With further reference to your letter of the twenty-sixth of January, in which you informed me of the shipment of four motor ambulances for Great Britain, I have received Sir Edward Grey's instructions to express the grateful acknowledgement of His Majesty's government for this generous gift from Yale and Harvard students. I should be much obliged if you would kindly inform the donors of the warm appreciation felt by the British government for the sympathy and consideration which prompted their actions.

I am, sir, your most obedient servant,   CECIL SPRING RICE.   Paris, February 18, 1915.

Major-Gen. J. W. Davis, President of the Central Committee, American Red Cross.

Mr. President:--I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of January 9, 1915, by means of which you kindly inform me that the students of Yale and Harvard Universities, as a result of a subscription, have had made four automobile ambulances, which they have charged you to present in their names to the French Red Cross..... I hasten to extend to you the expression of profound gratitude of the French Red Cross. It every day appears more apparent to the entire world how inexhaustible is the charity of the American nation.... Therefore, it is with deep sincerity that I pray you to transmit to the students of Yale and Harvard for their generous contribution the expression of the gratitude of the French Red Cross and the French wounded, whose sufferings they will alleviate.   The President,   M. DE VOGUE.