AMBULANCE COMPANY FORMED

A Red Cross Ambulance Company is now being formed under the auspices of the Medical School. In accordance with a proclamation of the President of the United States and by an act of Congress in reference to the Red Cross, this company will go into the federal service as soon as the enrolments are complete, and the men will receive the same pay as those of similar rank in the United States Army.

Enrolments may now be made at the office of the organization, 83 Newbury St., from 10 to 12 o'clock in the morning and from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The term of enlistment is for the duration of the war. Already 120 applications have been received and 95 of these are from members of the University. Eighty-seven men will be selected from the total number of applicants and together with four officers will make up the personnel of the company. The commissioned officers must be approved by the Director General of the Department of Military Relief and will then be commissioned in the Red Cross and recommended to the Surgeon General of the Army for commission in the medical section of the Officers' Reserve Corps. The officers will wear the pre- scribed uniform and the subordinate personnel of the company will be entitled to the uniform and equipment issued by the United States to enlisted men of their various grades.

Dr. E. A. Cunningham is captain of the company and is how supervising the enlisting. The training and instruction of the company will begin as soon as the enrolments are complete, probably sometime next week. The work will consist of some regular infantry drill and some theoretical instruction. Lectures in first aid to the injured, elementary hygiene and camp sanitation, administration and customs of the service, and elementary nursing will be given.

The equipment to be furnished to the company will consist of at least 18 ambulances, two supply trucks, and one repair truck. The men will probably be taken to France within two months and it is expected that they will be transferred to any American troops that may go to the front. The work of the company will be similar to that performed by the American Ambulance Field Service except that the wounded will be taken care of as well as transported from the front.

This company is being formed in connection with those which the War and Navy Departments have instructed the Red Cross to organize. The functions of the Red Cross Ambulance Companies correspond with those of the Evacuation Ambulance Companies of the regular army. They will probably be used mainly in the transportation of the sick and wounded from the front to hospitals along the line of communication as far back as the base hospitals. But although their duties are mainly to furnish transportation for the injured the personnel may be used in whole or in part to man hospital trains, hospital ships, or if the need is great, the emergency hospitals