The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22

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front and entertainments are beng
brought to completion.
| The Italian ministry of marines, 1t
was announced official today, has
ordered the suspension of all naviga-
ton in the Adriatic. Italian mer-
chantmen are scurrying into port with
stories of encounters with Austrian
warShips.
Consecrates New War.
| Almost the entire population or
Rome except the aged and invalids
gathered last night on Capitoline hill,
where Prince CoIonna, the mayor, had
convoked a solemn sitting of the mu-
nicipal council to consecrate, in the
heart of the capital, the new war
The Capitoline palaces had been
decorated with historic tapestries
commemorative events of great ma
tional Importance. The mayor dellv-
cred a patriotic address, which pro-
voked tremendous applause from the
throngs gathered on the hill, the
square below and in the surrounding
streets as far down as the Forum on
one side and the CaffarelI palace,
now the home of the German en-
baSSy, on the other.
After his address, Prince Colonna,
surrounded by aldermen and the mu-
nicipal council, and preceded by the
standard of Rome, started for the
Quirinal to pay tribute to King Victor
Emmanuel as the personification of
Italy.
ThrOngS to the Palace.
Veritable rivers of humanity poured
through the street leading to the pal
ace of the king. Thousands were
packed into the great Quirinal square.
The scene which was enacted when
his majesty and the members of his
family appeared upon a balcony over
locking the square has few parallels
in the history of Rome. 1t was esti-
mated that the crowd numbered sew
eral hundred thousand. The Roman
hosts were carried away upon a flood
tide of Latin enthusiasm when the
monarch appeared.
The multitude was so vast that all
the people could not enter the square.
From the crowd came a sound like
the roaring of the sea.
The windows on a balcony of the
Quirinal palace were opened and a red
damask covering was thrown over the
parapet. This was a sign that the
king was about to appear, and the
Impotence of the crowd increased.
There were cries of Long live the
king" and Long live the house Of
Savoy"
People Hail King and Queen.
Finally the king aid queen and the
royal children ca lie out upon the bal
cony. His majesty was in the uniform
of general. The crown prince,
dressed as a sailcr boy, waived his
cap to the multitude. The excitement
of the people arose almost to a de-
1irium.
The king then did an unprecedented
thing. He gave orders that the Itali-
an flag be raised to the balcony. Then,
amid the laundering cheers of the
multitude, his majesty advanced to the
National standard and folding it in
his arms embraced it.
The royal family then retired with
in the palace. Later the king called
a group of the aldermen inside and
to them expressed his gratitude for
the loyalty and patriotism of the Ro-
man people.
- Old Glory Borne AlOft.
After the demonstration before the,
Quirina1, a great crowd, with an
American flag carried at the head,
went to the Del Drago palace, the
residence of the limited States ambas-
sador, Thomas Nelson Page. There
were loud. cheers for America and de-
mands for revenge for the Lusitania
victims
Excited Over Rumors.
Great excitement was caused in the
capital by the report that Signor Boil
latl, Italian ambassador at Berlin, had
been assaulted while driving in the
street. 1t was learned later, how
ever, that the incident was not so
serious as it was thought and that the
police had begun rigid investigation
Letters of regret were sent to Signor
Bollai by Chancellor Won Bethmann-