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 months of the German attacks on Verdun, in Flanders and Champagne, wherever fighting was hardest—there Ameicans have been. One of them, Richard N. Hall, of Ann Arbour, Mich., was killed on service, his ambulance blown over a rough track on the Vosges Mountains by shell fire.

Americans in England have sought in many ways to prove their friendship. The most notable work has perhaps been done by the American Women's War Relief Fund, which has since the early days of the war maintained a hospital for the wounded, with 240 beds, in Mr. Paris Singer's beautiful home at Paignton. In addition, the American women are now opening a hospital for officers, with 40 beds, in London. Very many American women have volunteered to serve personally, as nurses and V.A.D.'s, at the different seats of war or in England. Others have opened their homes to the wounded and the sick.

There are Americans in other branches of the French service besides the Flying Corps. At the beginning, most of the American volunteers—forty or fifty in all—went to the Foreign Legion. There was a memorable scene when hundreds of young Englishmen and Americans living in Paris marched in procession through the streets to offer themselves to France.