26 JANUARY 1940, Page 6

The second detachment of the Friends' Ambulance Unit is expected

to start for Finland this week-end. The first detachment should be just beginning its work for the wounded on the spot. The personnel numbers about fifty in all, with full ambulance equipment. It is worth noting that these men, all of whom have scruples (which tribunals have recognised as genuine) about taking human life are, in volun. teering to go to Finland to save life, spontaneously courting dangers, from the climate, from air-bombing and the other risks of war, far beyond anything that at present confronts the average soldier on the Western Front. JANus.