VENETIAN WOMEN AND BOMBS.
"Venetian women, even though _uneducated, do manage to .say nice things in a nice way," writes Dr A. Robertson in the •Scotsman.' "When the Austrian incendiary bombs were falling the other night in the courtyard, canals, piazzas, and unfortunately also on the housetops and on the Church of the Scalzi, the same exclamation was heard wherever Venetian women were grouped together, 'Better here, over us, than over the railway that carries our dear sons at the front.' "It is in itself a generous sentiment, hut it also shows that these Venetian women hat! a shrewd suspicion that the Austrians intended some of the bombs for the railway station. "The' .Austrians, no more than the Germans, spare churches, although the. Pope sent an autograph letter to the Emperor Francis Joseph, asking him to see that all ecclesiastical property was spared." '
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Mataura Ensign, 13 January 1916, Page 5
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