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Show BOY AND 3 MEN CAPTURE 204 Italian Sub-Lieutenant Gets Gold Medal After Bringing in Prisoners. FIRST TO ENTER GORITZ Waves Flag From Roof of Railroad Station and Brings Comrades His Camera Taken for Bomb by Austrians. 9 Rome. One of the stories of hero-Ism hero-Ism and bravery that is on everyone's lips Is of Sub-Lieutenant Baruzzi, a modest young man, nineteen wears old, who has been awarded the gold medal for valor. With only three men he captured an Austrian detachment of four officers and 200 soldiers Intrenched In-trenched under a railroad bridge, and afterward he entered Goritz and hoisted hoist-ed the first Italian flag over the city. ered that an Austrian detachment was barricaded under the railroad bridge close to the Isonzo. The Austrians were in a sort of tunnel, the entrance of which was protected with sandbags and timber. Our guns were firing all over the place. I decided to enter the tunnel, and went in, pistol in hand, shouting 'Surrender!' 1 ordered my three men to cover the officers with their rifles, telling them that so long as the officers did not move their men would not show any fight. And, in fact, that Is exactly what happened. Sends for Help. "Five minutes passed and I was thinking to myself that it was impossible impossi-ble to get the AustrTans out. We disarmed dis-armed the officers and got them out, and I sent one of my three men to our lines to report that we had captured 200 Austrians and needed re-enforcements. The man went to our lines and came back on his hands and knees, crawling to escape our fire, and reported report-ed that re-enforcements could not be sent before the artillery had ceased fire. We waited for a good bit, and I had to shout at the Austrians the whole time to keep them still. Finally the re-enforcements re-enforcements arrived and took the whole lot prisoners. "I strolled toward the Isonzo and saw some men under cover. 'Do you want to come with me?' I asked them. They wanted to know where to and when I said Goritz, of course, they replied re-plied that the Austrians were firing against the bridge and that it was impossible im-possible to cross It. 'I know that,' I said, 'but come along all the same. We'll run for it and get to Goritz all right. "The soldiers hesitated just for an Instant, but seeing that I was running toward the bridge they followed me shouting at the top of their voices : 'To Goritz! To Goritz!' We crossed the bridge on the run and got into the city. It was empty. Some Austrians were coming toward us. I halted, took out my camera and snapped at them. They evidently thought it was a bomb or something like It, because they All attempts to interview Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Baruzzi and make him tell his own story proved fruitless. Like all real heroes he is very modest, and when asked for an interview he replied that he was very busy and, besides, he had nothing to say. A general finally came to the rescue of the newspaper men. He invited the lieutenant to dinner and made him talk for the benefit of the public. This is the story Lieutenant Baruzzi told the general : "I was out of the lines in command of a patrol of three men, and I discov- raised their arms and surrendered. Waves Flag on Roof. "We went on until we reached the railroad station. Here I got on the roof and waved the Italian flag I had with me in the direction of our lines beyond the Isonzo. I knew at once that my flag had been seen, because I could hear the men cheering loud and long. I tied the flag to a pole and left it there, and when I got down from the roof the first detachments of Italian troops were rushing at the double toward to-ward the city, which they entered shortly afterward." The flag that Lieutenant Baruzzi hoisted over Goritz was not larger than an ordinary pocket handkerchief, but it was sufficient to provoke the cheers of the men waiting beyond the river, and undoubtedly hastened their advance ad-vance and entry Into the city. |