BRITISH WAR MACHINE

Nelson Evening Mail, 22 May 1917, Page 5

BRITISH WAR MACHINE

ITALIAN MINISTER IMPRESSED

Upon his arrival m Z**A°#l visit to the French and Bntish fronts, lignor iLnida' Bissolati,; expressed brleav tfie impressions received among the British troops in >f n ° n Bissolati held the rank-^ of Sergeant in the 4th Alpini Regiment, which he iejofned voluntarily at the beginning of the war, and was severely wounded m the. early fighting. ' , tr B was chiefly impressed hy tiie-ie-organisation: In no respect,, dots it appear to be seems always to have /been, ■ The discipline and fighting qualities of the, men needed no praise, and confidence of the st^k in g But it was the technical. ( side of the army that impressed him excellence of the equipment, arid the quajity of the artillery of all SL theSanisatiori of the transports, and, m fact, the • During his.visit tq the front, Bissolati ci-ossedtheVAncre, the Somme, andth* Ypri battlefields, artd camecon'stentlyZniTder fire:- In :■ he met-and cfratted wtth a number of : men who before the war were miners and tnuie^Unionists. • He, as a>Spciahst leader; congratulated them.warmly.itpqn having eriliited voluntarily, and on hay ing Ishown, that Labour men,. heloto to g an organised Labour movement, could bear their part whole-heartedly in the fought in the interests of humanity. • ■