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Show ITALIAN MISSION IS TO VISIT TIE COAST Will Probably Make Trip by Way of Kansas City, Denver and Salt Lake. NEW YORK, June 24. The Italian mission, headed by the Prince of Udine, may lengthen its stay in this country" to include a tour of California . and other states in the far west. It was announced tonight at the close of a round of social engagements that included a courtesy visit to Colonel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. The mission had planned originally to return to Washington after its visit here and a day in Boston, and then return to Italy. However, western cities with large Italian colonies. Jjave sent invlta-. tions couched In sucli urgent terms that the mission may reconeider Its programme and make visits to Kansas City, Denver, San Francisco and other cities. The mission during its last day here attended at-tended a luncheon at the Long Island country estate of Lloyd C. Griscom, former for-mer ambassador to Italy. Colonel Roosevelt, whose home Is only a short distance from the Griscom estate, es-tate, called there to pay his respects. The prince returned the call, accompanied accompan-ied by Mr. Marconi and Francesco Save-rio Save-rio Nitti, members of the Italian parliament. parlia-ment. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., June 24. In a Red Cross appeal, delivered before he unfurled the national and Red Cross colors col-ors before the Oyster Bay Reformed church at Brook vi lie at noon today, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt pleaded that the nation should begin to think about the fate of the American boys who may be captured by the Germans. Unless steps are taken immediately to provide for them In Germa'h prison camps, he said, , they will be subjected to hardship and starvation, as were the English prisoners before their Red Cross workers could arrange ar-range to take care of them. "I want the Red Cross to prepare for tills duty at this time," he declared. "Steps should be taken now. If not, our men will starve in Germany. The British Brit-ish prisoners starved until their Red Cross supplied the hi with food. "The man who can't go to the front should render other services. Most of all there should be shame attached to the wealthy man who Idles. If any young man is In doubt whether to fight or to do other work, let him give the army the benefit of the doubt and fight. The rest of us should stand by in every possible way. That means to buy Liberty bonds, to subscribe to the Red Cross and so on." j "Every young man who has not Imper- 1 ative duties ought, from this time on, to be fighting or training himself with the idea that he must go abroad." i |