The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-06-28
MILAN UNDER
MARTIAL LAW
HEADS o. DEPARTMENTS GUST
60 ~ 1ovGRNNgsT FoR
FAILURE TO sroP RIOTS
Damage ~ Hoos wss E.o~-oos ard
Murders Are Hirted 81
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MILAN. Msy - The city - M.iaa
d nov under martial law and the gov
errncrt o. cut for ihs bead q vu-i-
Gus responsible Officials Who argweI
ihn riois 10 40 on Practically withcut
Interruption
The Count Badessono has been out
under arrest awaiting an lnvesfirs-
ton. Commander Ferrari has been
put In ad questor IN the place of the
former commander. who. % eli the
crowd. was the only one exonerafed
Gen. Sayelh has succeeded a. com
mander Of the city in the place Of
Gen SpinEardi. formerly minister OF
war
Although there was little put In the
papers. the affair was really much
worse than was AZ hrst imagined
There are plenty % people who hint
az numerous deaths and savage muir
ders by the violent crowds. And now
that there has been time TO inveS,i
gate all the destruction. all the fires.
II has been seen that the damage Is
immense.
The second morning after the worst
of the display. I went around looking
nj some OF the handiwork. in such
places as I could get by the guard OF
grizzled territorials Watching in front.
have never seen such complete.
careful. painstaking work in my life.
There was absolutely not one scrap 81
woodwork left TO prove what sort OF
a shop this had once been.
/ went to an apartment which had
belonged to Niennese girls. friends Of
all American journalist I met IN Mi
Ian We went up to see II there was
any possibility OF something being
spared. The doors had been torn on
their hinges. every pane OF glass was
broken Tables, chairs. wardrobes
were broken into pieces no bigger
than your hand-in the cases where
they had not been absolutely destroy
ed by FIRE.
But the crowd In spite OF its fury
was systematic and careful They
would take one apartment like that.
enter IL. destroy II completely. per.
haps make fires Of the draperies and
rugs in the middle OF the stone ioons.
guarding the fires carefully 80 that
they did not do any damage 20 any
other resident in the house.
As far as | have heard there were
Few mistakes made OF confused iden.
tity in the case OF private homes
I NAARAHh ~ many NartH the ENOhu de
stroyed firms which had been taken
over from Germans BY Italian manage
ment during the last six months OF
tension. In these cases. of course. 4,
was really Italian property which was
being destroyed and I suppose the
city VIII have to recompense these
firms.
We had had two days OF this quiet
when yesterday afternoon I saw a ire
mendous crowd surging up TO the no
tel. evidently in pursuit OF a charming
woman accompanied by two boys, one
in the costume Of the Italian navy. the
other OF the artillery.
She walked into the hotel compos-
eddy. the crowd following after ana
blocking the entrance. calling and yell
ing and shouting. the cries all so In
termingled that could not distinguish
what II was they said. was stand
ing just in the doorway looking al
them, thinking new riots were com
mencing, when the woman turned to
ward them and they let loose a new
set OF cries.
IL Is almost impossible to distinguish
between a furiously angry Italian ana
an estactically enthusiastic one as far
as extravagant gestures and loud cries
go. and their burning eyes might n.
lustrate either emotion.
SO II was with great sympathy that
turned toward the woman who was
facing them and said smiling:
Did they take you for an Austrian
They followed me yesterday. too
knowing I was a stranger"
She stifened a moment. then smiled
gently and said:
No. they know me. / fancy ma.
dame does not understand what thev
are calling. because they are cheering
me- or rather my son"-pointing 10
him-"who Is going to the front as a
simple soldier in the morning"
bowed vaguely. for her words
didn't elucidate the matter at all. and
then distinguished above the roar OF
the crowd the words:
'Duchessa dAosta, Via Savola
Viva la Francia! Viva II Duca!"
/ And II came over me that this was
the Duchess of Aosta. born Princess
or Orleans, second lady OF Italy ana
perhaps sometime queen n anything
should happen 20 the little heir appar.
emit And her son. perhaps one day 10
De king, marching as a simple sol.
dieri
Aut hVNri PROPRIETOR Iolu me after.
wards that the duchess was walking
through the gaueria with the two boys
when she was recognized by the crowd
who followed her all the way 10 the
hotel
She and her family are all immense
/ ~ popular with the Italians. an ths
more since her oldest son. the Duk,
Of Puzzle. who Us only N years old
mas received permission from the kinl
TO go 10 the front as a simple soldier
and will start In a few days. Tn,
duchess had just returned from Ire
vtsO. where she had been supervising
the setting up Of a Red Cross unit
which she will manage herself
During the last week the p1asea de-
! DuomO has been the most remarkabI,
place In the world. Imagine the set
tins. the wide open space. with tl
gorgeous. lacy spired church. whit,
and aspiring lts wonderful carvings
its gold statue on the Virgin over all
then on either side the arcados file,
with people
Every day. every hour. there was
new force. a new movement. boz th,
square. Today b. De- the Intervention
isfs. yesterday the ncutralists or per