ECHOES OF THE WAR.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1320, 12 August 1915, Page 3

ECHOES OF THE WAR.

The Italian army is a somewhat 'Polyglot body, although to nothing like the same extent as the Austrian army. The majority of the soldiers, drawn from Lecce and Reggio di Calabria, speak Greek, while in other parts of Southern Italy and in Sicily Albanian is the prevailing language. French is the mother tongue of over 100,000 natives of Aosta, Pignerol, and Suze, and German of some 12,000 in Piedmont and Venetia. Catalan is largely spoken in Saradinia, and in a few scattered districts Serbian, Slovenian, and other Slav dialects are in the ascendant.