THE ITALIANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2732, 1 June 1915, Page 2

THE ITALIANS.

IXTICNSE NATIONAL ENTHUSIASM. FROM THE POPE AND PRIESTS TO CANADIANS. BY BM'OXBIO TBLKGEA.PH. —COPXBIGHT. London Times—Sydney Sun Services. PER PBEBB ASSOCIATION. (Received Juue 1, 8 a.m.) London, May 31. The Queen of Italy has lent to tho Red Cross Society the Royal palaces at Quirinal, Milan, and Mantua. The Pope has lent his villa. Many priests are enlisting. Three thousand Italians at Montreal, Canada, raided the premises of Henri Bourassa, proprietor of ' tho newspaper Lo Devoir, for publishing the statement that Italy had gono to war for KclGsh reasons. The- police dispersed the crowd. THE RUSH TO THE COLOURS. P£B PBESB ASSOCIATION. Ronio, May 31. So groat was the rush to join the colours that tho authorities havo temporarily suspended voluntary enlistment. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST AIR « RAIDS. Venice, May 31. As a protection against air raids, the colonnade of tho Doge's Palace at Venice has been bricked in and sand heaped in front. .The roofs of tho Palace and Cathedral have been covered with sand bags. The bronze horses havo been removed from the Cathedral arch. x

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Rome, May 31. Official.- -The Italians have occupied Cinia Spessa, near Storo, and captured the Luzerna fort on the Asiago plateau, also Ciina Vegena and the village of Vezona, besides the Trecroci Pass aud Cortina Damlezzo, in Caclore. FORTS SILENCED ONE BY ONE. Tho operations on the eastern frontier of Trcntina are chiefly artillery duels. The-Austrians. occupy the best positions, but the Italians are silenciug one after another of the enemy's forts dominating tho valley near Settecomunui, also the Adigo and Sugana valleys, leading to Trent. The Avstriaiis on the Friuli frontier havo long been strengthening Avith numerous guns their position on tho left bank of tho Isonzo, commanding tho forts. They also strougly hold several points on the right bank, covering the town of Corizia. Heavy ruins have transformed tho rivers into torrents.

ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS IN MILAN. Rome, May 31. Anti-German riots occurred in Milan, lasting for 12 hours. Forty thousand sterling worth of damage was done. Siemens and SchukertV premises and Rocckling Bros.' building and many shops word fired ami wrecked. Three hundred arrests were made.

ArT lle a, I lthorities aro protecting Milan Cathedral against an air raid.

AUSTRO-GERMANS' HEAVY LOSSES.

. Berne, May 31. It is estimated that 1600 AusfcroGeniians wore killed in the Italian 1nn , , , ,* ,10, , fi S 3000 wounded, and lUIKI taken prisoners. _ Some 600,000 Austio-Germans and (0 batteries have concentrated against Italy. . to