Great American Soldier Is Given Small Chance Tuscan, Feb. 24.
Physicians said to-day that it was "questionable" whether Gen, John J. Pershing would survive through the night, They said that he occasionally rallied and became semi-conscious but always lapsed into a deep coma.
Miss Mae Pershing, the patient's sister, was given sedatives to produce sleep but quickly shook off the effects of the medicine and returned to her vigil outside her brother's door and remained there weeping quietly.
The General's personal physicians said that his sinking spell started at 6.15 p.m. At 1045 pin. an official bulletin said that Gen, Pershing was "failing rapidly, that his heart action was irregular and that his blood pressure was approaching a critically low level"—United Press,
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