Six Months on the Italian Front
by Julius Mendes Price (9780217877480)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MY credentials?The War Zone?Italy's preparedness?The Press Censorship? General Elia's advice?Disappointment? A pipe in the Pincio?An inspiration?I leave for Venice ? Venice in war time ? The lonely pigeons of the Place St. Marc?The Doge's Palace ?-The bronze horses?Interior of St. Marc, strange spectacle?First act of war between Italy and Austria?Aeroplane bombs Venice?French aviators?Treasures of Venice?Everyday life in Venice during daytime?After nightfall?On the qui vive? Extraordinary precautions?Dangers of the streets ?Spy fever?Permis de sejour?The angry crowd ?Defences against air attacks?Venice not a place forte?Nearest point of the Front?The British Vice-Consul, Mr. Beak?A good Samaritan?The letter of credentials?The Commandant of Venice ?More advice?New Rescript of the Generalissimo ?Reference to Correspondents?Decide attempt go to Udine?The language difficulty?The waiter at the Hotel Danielli?His offer to accompany me? Make arrangements at once?Introduced to Peppino Garibaldi?Amusing incident. I ARRIVED in Rome armed with sufficient credentials and recommendations, apparently, to frank me through every barrier to the Front, but I was not long discovering that in spite of the courtesy with which I was received by the officials to whom I had introductions, it was hopeless to expect any relaxation, for the time being, of the stringent decree with regard to the War Correspondents that had been issued by the Generalissimo. A " War Zone " was declared at once, and the most rigorous precautions taken to insure its being guarded against intrusion. Within its confines were several important cities, as for instance, Brescia, Venice, Verona, Vicenza, Belluno, Bologna, Padua and Udine and the entire area was considered as in a state of war, and immediately placed under what w...

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