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Show AMERICANS HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE PARIS, Sept. 15. Francis E. Sayre, President Wilson 's son in law, has just returned from a trip to the Italian fronb with other .American and British Brit-ish officials of the Y. M. C. A., after having escaped a six-inch shell by only forty feet. The party wa motoring up a hill along; the Isonzo valley on September 7 and Austrian observers sighted the Y. M. C. A. men. Five shells were fired by the Austrian batteries, the last one of which burst within forty feet of the party. All the members of the group were covered with dirt by the explosion. |