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...Quartermaster-General's Department has called for a limited number of stenographers to serve in the Transport Office on shore at the point of debarkation in France with United States troops for the duration of the war. These men must be university alumni or students in their junior or senior year. A knowledge of French is desirable, although not necessary. Successful applicants will receive $1,200 per year with rations and quarters...
...direct result of the informal conferences of the French Commission with the War Department, the American Government has determined to take over in easy instalments a large part of the motor ambulance and transport service of the French army, thus relieving many hundred French and at the same time training a large and indispensable corps of men for service with the American army when it arrives at the front. About one hundred sections of 36 men each--a total of 3,600 men--are to be sent to France as soon as they can be trained, equipped and transported...
...section is under the command of James P. Gillespie of New York, a Yale graduate. The second transport section, consisting of fifty men and twenty ammunition trucks will leave tomorrow...
...American Corps is considering taking up transport work so that when the United States troops go abroad the Corps will be able to take care of the transportation for such an army. As a means of fitting itself to carry on efficiently this work, the Service expects to organize in Paris a school for instruction in the organization and manipulation of motor-truck units...
...became so great that the Americans in Turkey persuaded the United States to intervene and Russia was requested by the United States to take charge of our interests in Eastern Turkey. Russia at once sent an army within striking distance of Van. In order to make it possible to transport the cannon and supplies over the deep snow carpets were collected which could be used to form a road-bed. Seeing these warlike preparations, the massacre was postponed for the time being. On receiving news from the Kaiser that the great European war could not then be advantageously started...