ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTIES OF VENICE.
BEING DESTROYED BY THE HUNS
TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION IN THE CITY.
United Service. Received March 2, 9 a.m. Loudon, March 1
Mr Jeffries reports that Gothas on the 2(>tb dropped a hundred bombs on Venice. Many fell round the Doge’s pdace and the Bridge of Sighs, which fortunately escaped. The Rialto bridge, however, was destroyed, and two convents were struck. f lt is calculated that onethird of the houses are now ruined. Obviously the Huns iuteucLto destroy ttiemaguificent jewels of Venetian architecture.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11476, 2 March 1918, Page 5
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