Show a FEARLESS AMERICANS AID ITALY'S WOUNDED I l RedCross edCor ss Workers Tf or h ers Face Dea tit th to Minister to Men Who Tf t Fell Battling Against Au All Flowers Brighten Grave of It New Yo Who Tf Died for fort or t Hunt Hum all unity anity it Y f f Italian Front Aug Aut 31 The st.-The The full fun story sto ata- ry of ot the work of ot tho the American Red Rell RedCross RedCross Cross rols In Ital Italy during the Austrian defeat defeat de de- will bo writ writ- feat teat of oC Juno 24 14 never foyer ten Some of It lies Iles In the experience of ot young American volunteers in canteens canteens canteens can can- teens at advanced ad posts who cool cooked ll for evor every combatant who appeared until or ordered or- or dered to fall Call back Out ot of range ranS More Is In the memories of Red Cross ambulance ambulance lance lanco men who for tor ten days and nights drove their freight through continuous shell fire Ire and occasional machine gun attack The remainder Is burled In columns of or figures I at headquarters in Rome nome from which within a few hours of ot the first warn warning Ins Ins- supplies were poured along every road to tho the front Before dawn on the ni night ht of ot Juno Jimo 14 14 the tho first Austrian shock hock came Behind Behind Be De- hind tho the waiting Italian arm army were wore four sections of American Red neLi Cross ambulances Many of tho the Americans Americana on on n duty were wera new to Hal Italy and to war The others were veteran drivers from the French front some somo of ot whom began their service long before beloro the United States Slates declared war Tho The curious fact Is that between the records of tho the veterans veterans veterans vet vet- erans and tho the amateurs there stan stands s to toda today today to- to da day little difference Cool under fire Is soon learned If it it can be learned at all and to balance the theet veterans veteran's vet et eran's erans experience the tho now new man Is frequently frequently fre fro the more eager In a career In which the value of ot eagerness runs a close second to dexterity and common sense A report made to the tho Italian supreme I d 1 1 1 d f 1 co by U t UC le c or J VL o UJean U merle mer- mer lean Jean TIed Red Cross Cros ambulance s section No 2 the tho largest of ot the four sections takes special notice of tho the acts of ot a volunteer volunteer volun volun- teer H H. H Dorr of ot Nutley X N N. N J. J on the night of Ju June e 14 14 H. Ho He was wason wason wason on duty dut at an advanced post when It was hit b by an enem enemy shell which de demolished do- do e- e part of the house and completely completely com com- covered his ambulance Returning Returning Return Return- ing Ine- to the headquarters of ot tho the section ho there took char charge o of another ambulance ambulance ambulance lance and returned to tho the field of ot battle battle battle bat bat- tle that he hc might continue continuo his work of ot pity Rain About Wounded I The report of section No 10 2 Is full rull of ot I similar Instances of ot bravery braver John Walter Miller oUner Jr of ot Kenora Ontario Canada and Frederic J. J Agate of Scarsdale Scarsdale Scars Scars- dale X N. Y were ordered to a front post Arriving at a cross roa toad road the they found It covered with barbed wire obstacles and two machine guns In place pace With the help of the machine gun operators they I tore lore down n and opened the barbed wire and advanced COO 00 meters further rt I house where tho the wounded were being cared for while bullets of ot tho the two t- t mica mie rained around them Having Ha loaded their automobile with woun wounded ed the they returned to the stations where the Injured received first aid treatment At 3 o'clock on the morning of the the rate commander of- of the section judged b by the tho int intensity of ot the bombardment bombardment bombard bombard- bombardI I ment that a certain advanced post re reQuired required required re- re a. a reinforcement of or ambulance Four volunteers were detailed for this duty Clarence F Roo noo of Chicago Ill Dudley F. F FolCe Wolfe olCe of ot on IrvIngton son lion on N. N Y Lucius H H. H Davidson of or Great Village Nova No Scotia and John A. A Gordon Gordon Gor- Gor Gorf f don of Barre Barret Vt t They advanced to this post de despite a violent enemy bom- bom of ot shells and ond tear-gas tear bombs bomb Ono One of these men Is now In Milan Ulan being treated for a serious condition ot of the tho eyes ees caused b by gas This medical post became so dangerous during their work there that It had to be bo abandoned aban aban- but the they continued to carr carry wounded gathering them from the road And this task was continued and accomplished by them thom do day and night during the tho entire offensive 1 Ignore J orf and Save Sn Many On the tho night of ot the t two o volunteers volun volun- volunteers who had Just Joined tho the section distinguished themselves Walter alter J I Feder of Cincinnati 0 O. and Robert C C. Cor Cory of oC Newark N N. N J. J wont to a front post where fighting was fierce and were stopped b by a colonel who told them It wits Impossible to proceed At this moment tho colonel Was ryas seriously Injured by br a piece of oC shell Thc They car car- Immediately to a a. surgical sta sta- tion lIon their return the they were wore topped at a n bridge b by military police who said It was fatal to go farther but taking anta ad advantage o of ot a n moments moment's inattention Inattention Inattention on the part of the tho guards guard's tho they thoy went on despite this warning and find succeeded succeeded suc suc- In removing a a. great reat number of or wounded from this area arca Not long after tho the first ambulance moved American Red Rell Cross canteens sprang up at favorable sites Just bo- bo hind the lines IInes Ten canteens had been In operation for months under tho the department department department de de- de- de of ot military affairs seven moro more were added Immediately The emergency emergency- group were placed place equipped I and amI directed by B B. B Harvey Har Carroll I American consul In Venice Out of or a alone along along long lone experience In Red ned Cross relief In that besieged city Mr Ir Carroll was able within twenty four hours hour to gather and ship through the tho teeming zone zono of ot op operations operations op- op enough coffee cigarettes and chocolate to supply stations where the dally daily average of or men served se was as sometimes sometimes some somo- times as high as 2000 Each post was I I 1 directed by two American American- Red Cross men garl Early In the offensive a 1 death oc occurred occurred occurred oc- oc In the American Red Cross forces Edward 1 M. M McKey l of Now ow York city who last winter had taken the first American canteen to tho the Italian front and who lately latch had moved to a site on tho the Pia Piave ve front too hazardous to be entrusted to men was Instantly killed b by a n. shell on the morning of or June 17 Lieutenant McKey IcKe was burled buried the next da day his grave marked by a plain wooden woollen cross Inscribed with his name and r A small American flag nag has been placed beside the cross and throughout the battle battlo his Italian friends kept fresh flowers on the gra grave Woman oman Caret Cares for Many Inn Besides these canteens In tho the very center of ot the busiest fire there were other and equally equal bus busy Red fled Cross rest houses at the railway stations In the they rear At these junctions tired columns of ot men on their wa way to a short repose encountered fresh troops marching marching- to toward toward toward to- to ward the battle At one Important junction where the troops of three al allied allied al- al lied armies emerged and separated for their various sectors an American Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross canteen had been hastily perched under a a. spreading tree treo opposite the station entrance looking for all an anthe the world like lUe a youngsters youngster's lemonade II stand on a circus day Hero an Ameri Ameri- American 1 I can ca'n can woman woman volunteer worked day and nl night h t. t The most difficult moments o of Mint hat Job were the tho times of ot passage of H hospital hos hos- hospital pital trains when steaming drons ns were transported to the station platform plat pint t- t form and cups o of hot coffee h hold held Jd to t the lips of or men too seriously hurt to im Otherwise the dally and nightly Ita Ista there as elsewhere was me one long succession succession suc suc- cession of ot dust-covered dust columns column brown faces and hungry mouths On the shoulder of tho the officials at headquarters In Iii Rome Homo rested tho problem problem lem of or transportation SUI Supplies that had hall been stored at some distance from the thc lines had to be bo moved to the front Already Alread northern Ital Italy had Keen boon covered cov ored ered with a network of or t tones stores n uc b stia atra- I points and t eme ncy Communications marked out he the attack came within three hou hours 3 after the news reached Rome nome the enc emus mac mac i Ism t was at work By railroad hy automobile su- su u- u occasionally L by Ly boat boit i. d d frequently frequently fre fre- as tho the hand ba baggage 1 g- g got of ot Red Iced I I I I Cross officers hurrying 1 to th the tho runt front su plies moved I Thus ocr every department nt of ot the Red ned RedCross RedCross Cross worked as a 1 unit during these ti ds d's ys y's of excessive stress each cadi American working v 01 king In harmony with his It comrades toward the vIctor victory which was upi in tho the hC helms hoar's pf of f all |