The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06
YOUNG PRINCE OF
 ITALY UNAF RAID

Headquarters of the Italian Army, July 15-( Correspondence of the Associated Press 1.-The most envied boy in all Italy is, Humbert Nicholas Thomas Jean Marie -envied not because he is heir apparent to the Italian throne, but because he is the youngest boy who has been offi- cially permitted to see the Italian front.
 This only son of King Victor Emman- uel, who is known the Prince of Pied mont, is but 12 years old. and has had some remarkable adventures. He is head , of the Young Explorers of Italy, body that corresponds to the Boy Scouts in | America, and he has done a lot of things that anybody would like to do He has 1 gone up in aeroplanes, down in subma- rines, steered warships, sailed boats, shot at wild boars and ridden cavalry horses 1 But the things he is proudest of are his l visits to the front, for he has been here
 not once but many times. His first visit
 was matter of considerable family dis l cussion. In the royal family of Italy all 1 such matters are talked over in the
 same fashion that they would be in any
 large American family. Humbert has l three sisters, two older and one younger l than he all of whom love him very much, and it is related that they did not agree about the safety of visit to 1 the front. His father, who has been at
 the front since the war began, as mat1 1 ter of duty, felt it was rather risky busi- ness letting his only son get within reach 1 of Austrian shells and bullets, aside
 from the usual hazards of rough army l life.
 1 But Humbert pleaded so hard that the family decided to let him come. The de- citing vote was cast by his tutor Com
 mander Ronald of the navy, who is a much easier master than the one who brought up the present King. In fact,
 1t is stated that the present King, re-
 membering his own Spartan training,
 chose Commander Ronald as his boy s tutor because of his gentler qualities. Once at the front young Humbert dis played the same fearlessness that has
 characterized his father during his stay
 there. He went practically everywhere | fell in love with the soldiers, was petted i by them in return, and all in all had a I fine time.
 | Indeed, he liked the front so much that l he has since got permission to visit il
 again and again, until now his happy
 smile and his sailor uniform of blue
 serge have become known to the sol 1 diers all along the front.
 i, It is related that during his last visit,
 when the weather was warm on the low l CT hills of the Isonzo river front, seeing ] some soldiers going barefooted, he in- | sisted on taking off his own shoes. "If 1 the soldiers can go barefoot, why can't 1 a sailor boy?, he demanded.
 While the first prince of his line des- | tined to a naval career, young Humbert likes the army as much as the navy. His
 fondness for soldiers comes from his as-
 socations with his aged grandfather,
 King Nicholas of Montenegro, who has 1 been a soldier all of his life and involved lin wars with both Austria and Turkey
 Humbert loves his grandfather very much 1 and has always insisted on hearing tales | of the latter's exploits in war.
 His physical training has made of him
 an unusually strong boy for his age. A year previous to the war, young Humbert | was ncminally under the direction of Miss
 Brown. the English governess in charge