Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-21
NEW AND FASCINATING ALLIANCE OF
THE UNITED STATES AND ITALIANS

! nous Cnurch Wnerc llugn Back uStb
TO uroach); Eric James Patterson, n
ManXman Of Peterhousc college, Cam
| hi idge, ana Professor Francis burRit,
Of Cambridge university. These men
are all active In Y. NJ. G. A. work for
tho American and British troops Doc
/ tor kclInan has recently returned
/ from a lecture tour In the United
states. and has been living under shell
fire with The British troops at Nicu-
port One member Of the mission
fnilcd to arrive. though the "COrricrc
della Sero' Of Milan announced him
az Profesar Holland Goose. This
should read ms Professor Holland
Rose. 1t was the same lively paper
which IN Wishing To describe famous
London society woman as "a distu-
fulshcd hostess called her zone or r.e
best known innkcoper I'm London" 4"
liut these slips arc rare, and the huS.
lsh rs home language among tho
officers and men whom we met oar
military escort at the front Was Cap
tnin Pifclli. who speaks an Eton-Bal-
llol English Of the choicest accent ana
tone. He is a member Of the great
Milan firm OF Plrelli, which makes
rubber goods. wiring and cable strand
for Italy. hnd many other nations o.
Europe lie has PLAYED tennis with
the British at home and abroad, ani
has helped To- establish three hundred
federated football clubs i'm italy
where there were three seventeen
yCuiN ago Tho pamc is English assO.
citation. Captain Firelli is also master
OF French ana German ard used to
have Spanish with a ike perfection.
some Spoke English.
IN one Group pf twenty privates M
the observation post on Mount Pasu-
bio, ! found three men who had work
ed u America and who talked on"
tongue as We know IT. The command
ant who gave us coffee at the Montal-
cone navy yard Captured from the
AuStrians) had spent two months in
New York mt the Fulton Cclehrauol.
AS we stood on the "Obscrvatoiic
lano Hdgradan," private came M.
and I'm good American gave his name
as Frank parnucCi. Of AZ Franklin
street Nyack. n. Y. Would | tell his
father and mother? ! hereby do He
ls 300 metres high, looking into tho
Austrian lines with excellent field
glasses ana he has been serving TWEEN
ty-five months. The major who gavo.
MS coffee at Gorizia had spent ona
year In the United states. hGying
horses ana mulcs. At the Milan sta
ton, acting as interpreter. stood
Now York Italian of West Twcniy
fourth street to welcome us. In peace
times he is the agent for collar but
tons, studs and suspcndors
Just who and what our mission was
troubled the lnnkecpcr of our pas
SAGE. At Venice in the Royal D-n-
icli, the seven names OF us were
brackctcd as Mission Scientirque
rlcainc"-doubtloss tribute
from a race Of engineers. But the
labelling was too much for the blood
or AIr. Patterson and | pulp bt him
late one evening altering the record
by writing british" after the name.
OF himself ana his two friends.
Played Our Anthems.
As we sat in the Pilson Restaurant
/ In Venice. the orchestra struck up
| "1>e Star Spangled Banner" ana
must state that Mr.. Patterson and
Doctor Kclman were tho first to roc
ocnlze II as a national hymn I'm our
, honor. They stood and sang while
the Italians applaudcd them as Wis s.
itors from a great republic
We saw the great Italian offensive
nj work from choice natural piat-
forms. We stood on Mount SabatinO
pnd looked across TO San Gabrielle,
when on the hiGhest peak, the only
bit of mountain left to them, the Aus
trlnns were being hotly shclled' We
stood on San Michele, with the Duke
Of Aosta. commander OF the secteur,
and looked 10 the Hermada that hogs
back, bristlinE with machine guns
where 10 Austrians mako their last
stand Of the south, lust as at Gabrielle
thoy mako thcir last stand on the
north OF that particular layer of hills
ON the mountain whore the b2lst
Battery nurses its six-inch guns in the
helNy-lidded cave. like an eye almos,
asleep, the commander brought out
his hook of visitors and showed us ar
kiplipg, MAY II, 1917 In CaVcrna.'
We were sitting In tho cavern on the
top OF Mount Ceagio, 1000 feet high.
American Monitors.
We camc into the Iaguna di Grade.
where on our left Italian shells were
falling as we looked on Nj. Hcrmaun.
4 hydroplane skinned the water. as
n swallow dips its wings In fliGht. and
then In n rush OF foam Il lighted ana
SWAN. Seaculls were resting on tho
uulct water. smaller bv half than ou'
American rulls. Dostroycrs. chasers
md monitors Law i'm the lagoon. Ons
( tho monitors was carrying two 10
inch guns. which shoot shells of 1850
pounds at $1,000 n shot Her drauch.
vas seven feet She looked like n tur-
tie with q mushroom ON its back. me
Italian officers were courteous enough
To- remember that the monitor idea
was American.
The commandaut Of Grado showed
us his chart of aoroplanc lombard .
ments. lie hol yellow dots for the
year 17i5. and there were SIS. meaning;
that SIS Austrian bombs had fallen on
his tiny scctiou-191G hod green dots
1C2 In mum . and 90 red dots mar-e0
1917, mp to the day Of our visit.