Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-10 | Page 9 | Yankee Women Rescue Britons

YANKEE IU RESCUEBHITONS Snatch General and Aide From Death at Hands of Hostile Montenegrins. u . 1 ''irJCTTART. Al-MifK Nor. (rtv Tlio Associated Press.) Two American women were the means of saving a British general gen-eral and his aide from what appeared to be certain death at fhe hands of a hostile band of Montenegrins, according to a story told In Albania by the foreign colonies. colo-nies. The women are Miss Ella F. Mc-Govern, Mc-Govern, of Milwaukee, Wis., and Mrs. Maria Ford, of Indianapolis, Ind., field workers in the service of the American Red Cross. Major-General O. F. Phil-Hps, Phil-Hps, virtually military governor for the British In Albania, and Captain P. T. Farrer, were the officers whose lives were spared by intervention of the women. The British general and his aide were proceeding north througn Albania on a tour of Inspection with the Americans, and. without knowing It, had crossed the Montenegrin border. Suddenly, In a section sec-tion resembling somewhat Yellow-stone Turk, a hand of 68 Montenegrin soldiers stepped out of a thicket and, ordering them to halt, leveh-d rifles at them. Believing Be-lieving he had reached an active fighting zone, the general directed his chauffeur to turn around. But the Montenegrins refuned to ailow the car to go. The leader lead-er of the band ordered the party to walk single file to a point where they were In full view of every one of the Montenegrin, Montene-grin, who lowered their guns and loaded them. The American women knew that a price had been set by the Montenegrins on General Gen-eral Phillips' head for what the Montenegrins Monte-negrins conceived to be unfriendly ants on his part In Albania toward certain of ihelr tribes, and had forbidden him to enter their country. Thev sensed the seriousness ser-iousness of the. situation at once, snd, after Identifying themselves as representatives represen-tatives of the American Red Cross, they Insisted the tKnclish general and his aide also were A'mericans "Keep cjuiet and don't any a. word," Miss McGovorn admonished ad-monished t he Englishmen. The leader of the Montenegrins wr -sktua: of, the nalionaiU: of the psJku aijfl sent for his chief, who, althnr:, utS able to T&stx the IdWitirTration ' which- the Americans handed him, did make out the word "American" and the red cross. The whole attitude of the Montenegrins changed when they became convinced the party were Americans. ClffArettai were exchanged between the Montenegrins and the two grateful British officers, and the party were allowed to proceed.