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...they believe the Chicago is now in Bordeaux because no word has been received to the contrary. Thirty-three members of the University and 32 men from other colleges and universities throughout the country, went to France on the Chicago to enlist in the American Ambulance Service. The ship left New York on Monday, February 17, and was probably convoyed across. She passed through the submarine danger zone and was constantly open to their attack...
...heart and gained fast in wisdom and prophecy. On the latter date it says: "It would be well if we could put off till tomorrow what seems obnoxious today. But war will not be put off. . . . We are now so near war that the sinking of one American ship, the wanton destruction of American lives, would draw us inevitably into the maelstrom." Since that date the second American ship has been sunk and other American lives destroyed but we are not yet at war. The cocksureness of the CRIMSON has not even pulled...
...delay, in spite of the crisis. A good deal of anxiety naturally has made itself manifest in regard to the safety of the passage, but the French line has assured the American Ambulance Field Service Headquarters that every precaution will be taken. This may well mean that the ship will be convoyed throughout its voyage, although no definite promise has been made to that effect. The passage is from New York to Bordeaux, a route on which no liner has been sunk...
...noted that they are sailing on a French ship. There are no American liners now on the Atlantic. If Germany should do as she says she will do, and that liner is sunk, will any of the false sophistries with which some men have blinded themselves suffice us then? Will we say, remembering those young men as our friends and our compatriots, that Germany was "justified"? Will we say that the laws of war or the laws of existence permit the sacrifice of the citizens of neutral nations...
...York, preparations are being made by the French liner Chicago to sail on Monday. This is the boat on which 30 members of the University will sail for Bordeaux to drive ambulances at the front. Passports have been issued to these men and it is possible that the ship will be convoyed throughout the voyage...