This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...feature of the Italian occupation of Gorizia was the treatment of civilians who still insisted on clinging to their homes in spite of the bombardment. It is arguable that they should all have been removed; there were a fair number of casualties, and almost certainly some who remained were spies. But since it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...feature of the Italian occupation of Gorizia was the treatment of civilians who still insisted on clinging to their homes in spite of the bombardment. It is arguable that they should all have been removed; there were a fair number of casualties, and almost certainly some who remained were spies. But since it was decided that they might stay, it was well that everything was done to render their life supportable. The Italian military authorities supplied them with food, and enabled them to get down periodically to Udine to market. We helped to supply clothes to the civilians, especially to the children; and this first brought Geoffrey Young, who had the matter in hand, into contact with the most notable civilian in Gorizia, Sister Matilda at the convent. Several hundred children came there every day for food and schooling, and some resided there altogether. Their happy child's life went on during day after day of the wrath of man, subterraneously in time of danger, at other times emerging into the courtyards of the gradually crumbling convent. I never met a finer woman than Sister Matilda, or a wiser. She took her part in this world and was shrewd in her judgments of it, yet she moved "above the melee." When finally, late in 1917, they took the children from her and sent them to Leghorn, it seemed a cruel necessity, but necessary indeed it was, for the building was being hit every day. She remained on among the ruins, and we found her there still, serene and practical as ever, when we returned on the tide of final victory in November 1918. In the early part of the winter of 1916-17 the Emperor Francis Joseph, known to every Italian as " Cecco Beppe," died on the precarious throne which he had occupied for all but seventy years. Ca...
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