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Show uu Two Women Save Lives of British General and Aide . SCUTARIA, Albania, Nov 10 (Bj the Associated PreJSO Two Ameri-an! women were the moans of saving n British general and his aide from whal appeared to be certain death at the hands of a hostile bind of Monti ne-grins ne-grins , according to a siory told in Alba ma by the foreign cclonie'-. The wo- j nun Arf .Miss Ella F McGovern, 01 Milwaukee Wis., and Mrs Maria I" rd of Indianapolis, ind, 'ield workers In the service of the American Red Cn-jB Major General G. P. rbiilip.s virtually virtual-ly militarv governor ior ih British a Albania, and Captain I T r'arrer were the officers whose lives were spared by intervention of th women, j The British general and his aide were proceeding nortn through A'ba-j jnia on a tour of hispectn n with the Americans, and, wfthoul knov'ng n had crossed the Montenegrin bordei iSuddenly in a section revc-mb'in,; .somewhat Yellowstone parr a hind of i 68 Montenegrin soldiers Bt. pped out of a thicket and ordrint; them to hilt, levelled rlflea at Lhem Belies ng he had reached an active ."ichlin." .in. I the general direct i lis chauffeur to turn around Bul the Montenegrins (refused to allow die car o go The' leader of the band ordered the pa-r to walk single file a point wh.re I they were m full view of every on-' or ithc Montenegrins, who lowered theli guns and loaded I ;o n The American vonien knew what a price had been set b tV MontenOil I "rins on General Phillips' head for what the Montenegrins conceived to! ( be unfriend!) acts on his pan n Albania Alba-nia toward certain oi the.r tribes, and jhad forbidden him !r, . nter their coun iry. They sensed the seriousness or! jthe situation at once, and, after identi Tying themsehes as i epresentatives of the imeaican Red t.ross, tpey insisted the English general and his aide aio were Americans. " Keep quiet and don't I say a word," Miss iicGovern adrnon 1 'ished the Englishmen. The leader of the Montenegrins was : skeptical of the nitionalit) of the par !ty, and sent for his chief, who a'tho: h unable to read the identification pa-Ipers pa-Ipers which the Americans 'landed him, did make out the word American"' 1 and the red cross. j The whole attitude of the Montenegrins Montene-grins changed when tney jocame con- i ;vinced the party wer-1 Americans, ( is aretS were exchanged between Ihc I Montenegrins an 1 t he- two grateful ( British officers, and the part were I allowed to proceed. |