Show TROOPS WILL GO TO IW ITALY PRESIDENT MEETS THE DESIRE OF ITALIAN KING AND WILL SEND MORE MEN OVER red fled cross Y M C A and staff of experts already on the ground to be followed by infantry machine gun units and artillery now new york secretary of war baker announced in nn an address liere here friday night lit in celebration of italy lay day that american infantry american inn little gun units and Anite american rican artillery soon would be lighting fighting shoulder to shoulder with the italians on their front recent reports from ilowe home have quoted xing king victor emmanuel as expressing a desire to see american soldiers on the italian front and it ling has been well known that italy as it a whole would welcome american fighting forces official announcement however was not given until fredri friday by the war department that the united states would meet tills this wish it Is presumed that word odthe of the proposed action was withheld to form a fitting climax for that tha italy day celebration when the people of italy find tho the united states pledged falth faith one to the other in re referring ferrin to the intention of tho the cited states government t to send part 0 of I 1 its fighting forces to italy mr baker said that there were already in italy representatives of america the lied bed cross Is there lie ho said carrying the message of our heart and ennd to italy the young mens christian asso association clation Is extending its work there and tile ho american army itria Is already represented in italy by a large and important staff of experts who nrc are studying italian methods of warfare and we have sent to italy a substantial number ot of our ardys sanitary corps so that we have doctors find and nurses of the american army already there but I 1 see sec and in the no distant future american tn fantry An american lerlean machine gun units and american artillery shoulder houlder fc to shoulder with the italians on their heir front line |