THE MARCONI BADGE.
"An acquaintance of mine," the Morning Post's Berne correspondent writes, " who has just returned from Brussels, where he was staying at the time of Italy's declaration of war, was much amused at the manner in which the people evaded General yon Bissing's prohibition of wearing the Italian colours, which apparently everyone was anxious to do. " As soon as it was known that Italy had joined the Allies all the Brussels population appeared with the Italian' colours, but equally promptly General yon Bissing issued a proclamation forbidding this. " The colours vanished, but instead everyone sported a little piece of macaroni. General yon Bissing could not very well issue a proclamation forbidding the wearing of macaroni. Consequently he presumably resigned himself to the inevitable, and, if he has any cense of humour, he laughed."
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 14
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135THE MARCONI BADGE. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 14
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