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Show FRANCE HONORS CARPENTIER Champion Heavyweight of Europe Decorated With Military Mili-tary Cross for Brilliant and Daring Work. Paris, Dec. 3, 5:30 a. m. Sergeant Georges Carpentior, champion heavyweight heavy-weight pugilist of Europe, now attached at-tached to the French aviation corps, has been decorated with the military cross for brilliant and daring reconnaissances recon-naissances in an aeroplane. Carpentier joined the colors when war was declared and has been in the thick of the fighting ever since He was first with the signal service and twice his apparatus was blown away by German shells. Later he became be-came an automobile .courier on the firing line and then was assigned to the aviation corps in May last. Carpentier's last important pugilistic pugilis-tic achievement was to win from Gunboat Gun-boat Smith on a foul In London in six rounds on July 16. 1914. |