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Fillelt;3 io the brim with a \ear of thrilling experience* as an ambulance driver, first on the West frontofFrance, where the pitted fields ofI ej uU2j- 4, . - ^and later 011 the Fast front, v. here the hilltop fighting of former das Is, still in ^ ogue and ambulances light off mountain bandits to bring then wounded to base hospitals, Harold Blote, a member of the Stanford ambulance unit in Franco, will ^peak to the Rotary Club tomorrow on h!s» experiences,Blote left San Francisco, en romc to the French front wuh the first Stanford ambulance unit m February of last ear, They were presented with a silk flag when thev left. Guarded by destrovers, tht-y made the first run against the underseas blockade with other ambulance unit*, destined for the lmtlefrant, to take up six mouths' hard service with the French troops. The flag ha? been twice decorated for the conspicuous bravery of1 its little company—one© at Champagne and again at Verdun— the eroix dll guerre.TVOXDERFITL year.“It was a wonderful eur ur.iueu between France and the Balkans,” said Blote today, Vfe wore attached to the S. S. U-14 section, which in French is “Section Sanitaire Ameri-caalne No. IV' or cho “Fourteenth Sanitary section’' in good old V. S. A. Our first taste of the war was at Verdun, where we were under Tire a good portion of the time. Verdun in a devastated country* It looks like San Francisco atier the fire and earthquake—-311st heaps of brick and little wisps of smoke and pitted holes. We were with the French when thej rolled back the Crown Prince’s army on the right bank of the Meuse—a tremendous set-back for Imperialhopes.“In the Champagne we were with the attacking division of the Moron-villier Massif in one of the hardest 1 ought-over sectors on the west front.We saw several heavy attacks between our work in carrying the wounded to and fro, and had our flag decorated here with the ciroix du guerre. This was the second citation, our first being at Verdun.“It was directly after this campaign that volunteers were asked for the Balkans—ten men to accompany the second Stanford unit. Mine others and myself went, traveling through Italy to Greece, thence through the blockade at night to Salonika. where we entrained for the Balkan frontALBAX1AX FRONT.I was four months on the Albanian iront miring* tn« gjecu umvu uj. utn-eml Ssirra.il. I saw realT* o rp»nes 6 1 linesTo Take Life;Still LiveWorried over his condition and believing that they will amputate his two broken legs.James Holde. who vesterdav— ' . .tried to hang himself from a telegraph poie at High street and Allendale bv fastenin': a+* VJ-ttc T' Ofl'1 ■ * -V. ^ ..•/«« ... ... _ _ . . . . . ..it to a cross-beam, cut an arterv3 *in his left wrist last night at the Merritt Hospital in an effort Jot-.. • i.1 iunv.i*1. suic» »back to the Emergence Hospital and placed in a cell, and there tried to strangle himself with the bedding.After his fail from the telephone pole, Holde repented his action, declaring he was a fool. His wife, who is a trained nurse, attended her husband last night at tlie Receiving Hospital. She says he is a man who«lt;j obligations worry him. They own their home at 4421 Virginia street and payment for some street work which came due January 2 had given him, considerable concern. Aside from that Mrs. Holde says she knows oi no reason that can be assigned for her husband's _ condition.- \fightingJOHNSON CITY, III.. Jan. 10.—One man was killed and ele\en persons injured when a heater in a street car loaded with miners blew up here thin morning. The accident occurred shortly before the car was to leave for the mines.Toral TYoote. IS, was killed and his father. John TVooten, was seriouslyinjured.The explosion is thought to have been caused by an accumulation of sas.j Albanian bandits are everywhere.1 They are Hke road agents in our country. They live by plunder. TheFrench government gave us revolversto protect the ambulances m lonely places, although this was strictly against the rules o£ the Geneva convention of Red Cross* regulations. But\\ rd fitiU clt;J uto pi in ui-der to get the wounded along the1 I'l! A A *- A «• T • V, A A *1 *. . (Vl 1 n r*t (1 *1 1 1 v, v,. r\«i « to 1 lt;n -r- A A *«.
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Oakland, California, US
Wed, Jan 16, 1918
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