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Show NO NEED FOR INTERPRETER Italian Soldiers Found American Red Cross Workers Spoke Language They Unaerstood. Washington. Italian soldiers have found that Ihe American lied Cross worker speaks a language they can understand un-derstand perfectly, namely the language lan-guage of sympathy and help. A Hed Cross nurse reports unusual scenes In an Italian military hospital In Rome. She distributed to cch of 700 wounded soldiers a pair of woolen socks, cigarettes, chocolate and heavy underwear. What need of an Interpreter Interpre-ter there! Nearly every soldier, even the most severely wounded, insisted upon shaking shak-ing hands with her. They called down blrings upon her and sent greetincs to America. When she left, every sol-I sol-I oier able to do so walke d to the win-I win-I dow and waved farewell. At another point along the Italian j line. l.".fMi soldiers were made happy I by gifts from the American Red Cross. And not long afterward they attacked the Austrians with a vigor that their commanders attributed largely to the revival of their spirits through Red Cross ministrations. Thus the money given to the Red Cross is helping to win the war as well j as relieving immediate distress. |