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Show IE DpilED Ten Officers and One Private Pri-vate Presented With Medals. COBLEXZ, March 15. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Four major generals, three brigadier generals, two colonels, one lieutenant and one private were presented pre-sented with decorations by General John J. Pershing, commander-in-chief of the American expeditionary forces, Saturday morning in the square in front of the palace formerly occupied by tht? German emperor in Coblenz. The presentation of medals took place after General Pershing had inspected and reviewed two battalions bat-talions of the Fourth division, the perse per-se .nel of the headquarters of the Third army and the Third army Itself. At the head of the ,line of those decorated dec-orated stood Lieutenant Cukela of Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, Minn., and next to Oukela was Private John J. Kelly of Chicago, both marines, who received the congressional medal of honor for bravery displayed in attacking German machine-gun nests. Distinguished service medals were presented pre-sented 1q Major Generals Dickman, commanding com-manding the Third army; John D. Hines, commanding the Third corps; William G. Haan, commanding the Seventh corps, and Charles H. Muir, commanding the Fourth corps; Brigadier Generals Harry A. Smith, In charge of civilian affairs, in the occupied area; Campbell King, chief of staff of the Third corps, and Malin Craig, chief of staff of the Third army; Colonels George Tyner of the Third army staff, in charge of transportation, and John C. H. Lee, chief of staff of the Eighty-ninth division, the youngest chief of staff in the American expeditionary forces. Alter the ceremonies General Pershing proceeded to Consdorf, Luxemburg, the headquarters of the Thirty-second division, divi-sion, where he lunched with Major Gen-j Gen-j eral William Lassiter, commander of the . division. ". In the afternoon General ! Pershing reviewed and inspected the men I of the Thirty-second. |