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Show AMERICAN RED CROSS DRIVERS DECORATED Twenty-one Men of Section Three Show Bravery in the Recent Fight in Italy. WASHINGTON, July 10. Twenty-one Twenty-one American Red Cross ambulance drivers have been awarded the Italian cross of war for bravery during the recent re-cent Austrian offensive which was crushed by the Italian army, Red Cross headquarters here was so advised today in a cablegram from Rome. The men receiving the war cross included in-cluded Lieutenant Asktim of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, director of section three, and these drivers of that section: Tedford J. F.aton, Raymond Hanks, Willard II. Ohl, George Noyes, Grant Palmer, Robert Reiser, Henry Spellman, I'alvvard Dougherty, Harry Gibbs, Wcsted Henderson, Charles Masters, Malcolm Olson, Bryant Prescott, Wiu-throp Wiu-throp Slade, Jr., Armory Thorndike, George Pifer and Hemingway of Kansas City. The home addresses of the other men "and the names of the other two men decorated were not given. Coles Seeley of Newark, N. J., one of the drivers who was wounded, was visited personally by King Victor Emmanuel, Em-manuel, who expressed his appreciation of the work done by the American Red Cross iu the Italian war zone. Other men in section three were given other decorations, the cablegram said, and it is understood that still other Red Cross ambulance sections, which rendered equally important services, serv-ices, are also to receive official recognition. |