The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1918, Page 18

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918 ~ By ‘ 1m Eight Months at the Front OWA ®) With the American Army’ \ a | — | | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918 How d’Annunzio, the Poet, _’ Became Italy's War Hero By Daring Air Exploits His Soul Set on Fire by the Allies’ Cause and His Country's Share in It, Gabriele d’Annunzio, Although Over Mili- tary Age, Earned Fame and Wounds as Italy’s Most Sen- sational War Aviatov, and for Heroism Won Four Dec- | orations and the Rank of Major. . ’ . ’ ° | abriele d’Annunzio, Italy’s Warrior-Poet CHARACTERISTIC) FEATS PERFORMED BY HEROIC FLYING POET, WHO EXCHANGED THE WINGS OF PEGASUS FOR THE WINGS OF WAR THE GERMAN PEACE OFFENSIVE. German “Psychology” Reflected in Present Peace \ oN Overtures Aimed to Stimulate German Resist- i ance Against a Foe That Will Not ‘Listen to\ i Reason” and to Influence the Allied Peoples \ | Against Further ‘Needless Sacrifices,” a Ruse| That Will Not Mislead Allied Military Heads. MOST SENSATIONAL .FEATS Flew over Trieste, dropping messages of cheer to Italian-born citizens of that city. Took part in many aerial bombardments of enemy battle lines, being wounded in the wrist in one and losing the sight of one eye in another. Led Italian troops in the trenches on the Carso during a counter-attack in which every Austrian perished. Led every raid on Pola, Austrian submarine and warship nest, which his squadrons of giant Capronis matertally damaged. Took part in successful air raid on concentration of Austrian naval | forces at Cattaro, oe Took part in successful raid by three Italian torpedo boats in the Bay of Bucyeart, in which a large Austrian ship was sunk. Led squadron of eight bombing planes on 800 mile flight over Alps to Vienna and return, to drop messages to Austrians. By Martin Green I (Staf Correapondent of The Beening World.) FTER the Allies started the Germans of Germany A last Joly, the officers of the French. high n the direction British Ame of the and tean war on the strictly commands, foreseeing the ultimate fints | ars | military side, began to figure on what steps the German iu uracy t Government would take to avoid a disastrous defeat the field. In the light of recent events the ac of judgment of the Allied Generals and strategists, as expressed at that time to correspondents, stands out almost as the expression of inspired prophecy. British, French and American officers of long expe rience have knowledge of the workings of the German military mind) They know that Germany always player the game of war with “an ace in the hole.” They know 7 that the German military oligarchy 1s not stupid and | Made record breaking flight (his latest achievement) from Turin to that German statesmen, under the Influence of German “ | Chalons, and back from the French front to Milan. btn philosophy, figure on the influence of psychology GABRIELE ’ | netione! psychology, The world ‘s planted with German spies. Developments of war have, shown that, in respect of psychology, they are very bad spies. They have misinformed their Government from the time they reported that ( Britain would not enter the war down to the time when they reported basing their judgment on inaction after the sinking of the Lusitania—that the United States, being a money-loving, heartlessly practical country. controlled to a considerable extent by the influence of guided German American thought, would not enter the war. But the men who bullt up the apy system of Germany, the military leaders who are still in control, find, in the balance of the books, that their spy system is probably entitled By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1918, by The V’ress Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World ‘Gena D'ANNUNZIO'S latest record breaking flights from Turia FLEW. OVER ALPS AND . DROPPED “VERBAL BOMBS” ON VIENNA DANNUNZIO See : to Chalons, and back from the French front to Milan, but empha+ size the fact that he is the only commanding figure in the world’s literature who likewise has won place as a commanding figure in tae He has sought no exemption from active duty in that familiar adage so consoling to the intellectual and indolent. He may believe, indeed, that the pen is mightier than the sword, yet be has not disdained mastery of the lesser weapon so useful in dealing with disciples of Kultur. world war. to achievements on the credit side. ‘The spy system succeeded in Rus- sia, It worked for @ measure of suc- cose for a time on the border between Austria and Italy, it mms broughi to Germany numerous stratogical mill- tary advantages all over the world, It js @till @ potent forces, It is tho foun- dation of the structure upon which Germany hopes to end the war by the pretense of surrender, Through the spy system, the German military oll- garchy hopes to continue the pressure of terrorism where such pressure can be exercised, and at the same o plausible rey ne time t WH be swehidn German people with German arms. “Unies we get the jump on them, the German military leaders will got their forces to points wh they can make a stand for the Fatherland They will try to defense on « Tine wh @ fight against the invani many by « forelen foe. ‘The idea, « course, is to arouse the German people to @ sense of responsibility for sav At the y machine in the to impress the prowess of | entered the world war, her great port D’Annunzio has proved himself as great a patriot and aviator as he is a poet. It is interesting, by the way, to note the splendid war records of the poets, so long sneered at as men of dreams and inaction by practical souls. Rupert Brooke, whose poems rank with the best of Browning and Swinburne, the most singing melodies of Shakespeare, died at the Dardanelles for England in all the glory of his golden youth. Our own Joyce Kilmer and Alan Seeger fell fighting bravely on the torn flelds of France. Pernaps an ardent be- lief in beauty, the poet's creed, is not the worst preparation for dying in a war against beastliness personified. It is certain that, as soon as Italy months later he took part in a mos€ successful raid on a concentration of ing their country from the despoiling = nay part in tho] Austrian naval fo Cattaro, an time, through seemingly open diplo- | ands of a ruthless enemy. ‘The ere | waareastr toliay. his part ini (hel Ausirlan aval Serves st Galiaie, matic channels, tmprese upon the|will be, The whole world Ix against attugels althougt le wos well ovec| ex plc), wilch He: dese hele les of the world the desire of] (he Fatherland, We have offered to dfty and might have contented him-| adventure of Ulysses” and for whichy tcipate in a com-| Make peace. The brutar enemy | self, like certain British novelists] he received his fourth medal for valot Germany to part fuses to Listen to Rally to the f nT f the war. radeship of nations. defense of the Fatherland, pe ie ee a a While the German Government, in| “Germany, in thoory, will be atit euphonious form of patriotic service when he was not flys @ manner most adroit and appealing, | toned in military resistance by the known as “propaganda,” ing, he was addressing the most spire following @ pian arranged long 460, | menace of the foe at the gate and —D SOLD) Before hig country joined the] ited exhortations to the Italian troops, i® addressing to the nations with/make it all the harder and mor¢ U Lo ERS IN My When the whole civilized world was d’Annunzio was a most ardent Every which it is at war invitations for ap COUNTER ATTACK understanding upon which peace o ontly for the foe to administer the |final blow. Meanwhile the people i “e trembling for fate of its most andist of their cause, ve arranged, German soldiers are deV- | Great Britain and France and the| jay that passes,” he wrote in Sep- | beautiful city, he cried with the stern agtating regions they Lag grea United Stat doubly assailed by - - —_—————$$ $$$ i re ae 1914, “is day of eternal| ness of an ancient Roman, “Burg im Belgium and France. It would not) peace propaganda from ( e e ee akon hich shouid| Venice rather than surrender it!" Ha We just to the Government of U8) by casualty lista, will 6eé 9 9\slory lost for Italy, whic ‘ \ : os are| n 20 ts h France im-| sent an impassioned message to tha } country to say that German spies are! brought to the conviction that ome un a r u n as al 0 oc. enter the struggle with France Ir pepe > Wiowing up ammunition plants and | much as Germany is w s U 8 U e es H iately.” In May; 1915, just be-| hard-pressed armies at the Piave, setting fire to sto! uemy and navy supp Mates, but some of asters of that ¢ houses sheltering there is no use in furt in the United | Germany hopes for this oute ent dis- MAY WORK IN GERMANY—BUT aac pigious, At a time when the man | NOWHERE ELSE. military Gevernment knew that Ger-| “you can peadily many was doomed on the western) appeal to both sic the spring of 1918 he left ona lement for another and took part In a successful raid by three Italian tors ts in the Bay of Bucycarle, Austrian ship was sunk, and @'Annunzio dropped overboard fore Italy’s declaration of war, he was greeted by the cheering crowds of Rome as the prophet and person- ification Italian nationalism, a second Idi, “Unless Italy fights “Paris reminds me of Philadelphia! with a bun on,” says H. C. Witwer’s hero, ‘and London is the first flag station I’ve ever been in where I didn’t feel like I was the original Stephen X. Wiseguy and «verybody else was hicks on account of me comin’ | of » the Dasa « T have an tth toa weve os frome because of American help tolinar it will work ter ta A aN |Germany.” he said at this time, “st Spne fag Athol y fhe Briton and Prench Armies, Ger iw «um from New York! serene hold up her head amonz| eFal seated bottles containing his sare man submarines appeared off th Baty! ahah ‘i ‘ 2 . ei | castic comments on the heats norte of the United States, (fui. in | the 66PELLeVE me, Germany will be {pitcher, now a soldier of (ncle Sam ft a hand, but instead of nidih’) “One of ‘em writes it down the nations again. 1 wi Aantr ORE STOO One: PRESENT DEVELOPMENT FoRE-| inoue hatin askin’ waivers on that big|in France, to his friend J de at home fn cieroue At thet whanid |i! atow long have you occupied your | YAtil my country ¢ ee Tresaivenpanc | te “Wolves of the CAST LAST AUGUST. | 1 be clear headed enoug stiff, the Kaiser, before we!The book hag been strfkingly suc- over the dome with the stock of | pre sent sali i caet On May 27, at erage ved Per” | Biue Devils” of Italy—presented the: \ at German ow in p have played ‘e © 0 | Coss at "i exception itle rei ; ssion to serve as VO 0@ ; Here te Gorman paychology. 1t| Mat Germany, now in ve played ‘em more than two cessful, and it is withegit exception | bis rif_e and T resign | ixty-four years,’ I says with a| Mission to serv inter he was {Warrior poct with a cirelet of gold Wee explained to several correspon ° Leg ‘ sag ment wt umes. That guy is gonna wild piteh | the most irrepressibly funny thing) He comes to in a German dugout | peasant grin warship, Three weeks hs er ole aural leavae’ chat anurainah ha eahen poate gus ¥ the surrender of Bul-| himself off the earth ot writte: 01 © great | with a big Boe! am guard anc ( 1 ° Jieutenant of No’ ure A ents one ae seriy ie August, at an wants to trade and we | limself off rth, bs rt st a about the great contlict hil Pe ue B ify raeeerie Leads el “another incorrect answer and you bominnies a Lieu new. racord by @ sensational Simi Am camp In Wee rmany “Paris reminds me of Philadetphia Like Kipling’s American spirit, it) the first tactful thing the American) gio _pigt' bawis this guy, pullin’ a| Lancers. ee th eight bombing planes over Vi- a@vancing Americ adore rier hing, of {fies in the teeth of all the schools, | asks him is, “How many of your si ced But the rider of the winged Pegasus | With elght bombing y : Heer who, while not a German, kno with a bun on! ‘The main thing, of . @ |gun. ‘Remember—I'll shoot! war was des- jenna, The squadron flew $00 miles at a lot about the German military ‘nat course, is the dames.@ Most of ‘em/#Nd like that spirit, its humor saves | trenches did take | 4S Sure he's fourstiushin’. Lyanked | 12 !be ears before the we itary |@n average altitude about 11,000 plomatic machine and the German | Of a ont could make the front row in the Win- |‘t whole, An apotheosis of lowbrow hut up! be growled in plain), ose my pocket and throwed | timed to Sebleve his greatest military) © © SNe ont, over Ri aa people from association and experi- |). 1, to dlbas hae aint f tryin’. ‘They |/8M, written from first to last in| English, You will be shot to-morrow!’ | ve ’ wer | distinction through flights of another | fe is flight, bs, ee ithe nt or thorn | Be, moat wilting to elo r Garden without half tryin ‘ Pitan ‘ reyhat dive. think’ of that bra,’ {it om the table in front of him, ‘All| dlstinelion tran Tt a gero- | in deflance of enemy planes and ant! "Gi down to a unit basia,” mid ‘ if they k s laughin’, and smilin’, and angie cheerily cocky, the book ; seaibie. teeige{ Stent, stupid!’ I says, ‘I'l shoot a} Srh re tation aircraft guns, is the longest ever vate off find that t they ain't none of ‘em deliberately an atinct with racy, romantic, alto- | Comments Kd the irrepressible, “try ter! Who's got dice?” | plage of the Ballan Army Aviation} ect t will act as stu : Martie Sek Uae e cluah ae Galigh eral jemtiatn whien | t@ Bloom it all up for me!" wart no's got the dice sn. [Corps was over the city of Trieste, a taken by a bombing squa rian soldiers have t “LE have been to sweet old London |#hould make Eastern college profes- |» He is brought to another dugout, Tt goes over thelr heads like a are jmartyr city” to the Italians, us But, instead of bombs, chivala BU teases ca 6. few Ger ea ae 1 lianas uatiave ine, tb ine. bure! New York businces.men and w,|Dushed inside, “and there I am, up|Plane. ‘How many of the American) 41,004 and Lorraine are martyr prov-|rous fighters dropped this messuy' ces of w few Germans | -moy im ind belleve me, it is so) Di r 2 ‘ s men inn Aba thaie GS prance” ne| am f “We Nekacain: Wat ar ol ine co tele hands: in tohen of | peer meet Oe os ler Its the first flag station |* w. citizens beyond. the Missis. | before the Night Court, or somethin’, |Swine are there now in France? he} |. 0.4 to the French. The poet dropped} "We Itallans do not make war on surrender for the eek OP UraMIOE| under trenent conditions thane’ loteol been in where I didn’t fool like #!PPI read it with equal glee, of the German Army. ‘I is three | ##ks me, messages bidding the Italian-born cit- | Women, children and old men-only | ar troops into af aw machine | wilt prevail the oeurinal stephen X. Wise. ONC of the incidents in the book | #¥y® sittin’ behind a table which | I'm the only one!’ I says, grinnin’| igens to be of good courage as Italy| your blind, obstinate, cruel Gove re a eccmen te prose: line ence agalibine sy vivaa hicks, on Which ix most entertaining, and also | {tom their uneyforms must of been |at him. “T me out here tol would econ come to-thelr ald. ernment, which cannot give you “phe German Govern by prowe-|the Middle Woatn suy and everybody ¢ as hicks, on 4 , : either peace or bread, but fe¢ uting the war wit its| port Poo he S AOUIt Of Me Gomin! Enon Maw Cook. (sui° the real stuft in tho ex- /at least the Kalser and a couple of | look over the situation all by my#elf.| ty the next year he took part in{@ther Deus or broad. ad 30M rections and sh min] Saturda will 1 Don't get the idea from this that f hy description of the!/the Crown Princes. They are hard-/[ give you tramps a good AEbt.} many aerial bombardments, ubing) oy written und dropped | others _ t f eu th have as HE RCABKS decal daca mae mie ent over theslop, killed four king babies, and they glare at me | didn't 1? bombs and a machine gun, and in one | ** Ong aroppeg be mata of | \ ahiting on the fro ain France, ("ave on Dee the winds | Germans, wa BAHRR RIES they're tryin’ to assassinate me] © ‘You die to-morrow, swine!’ snarls] o¢ these battles his wrist was shat- t'Annunale referred to America im doubt in the 7 Ha 1 Papabini tintin tek l'aaoGldl wachor Schaar aanette others, was 4 | and threat-|With a glance, I come right back at] one of the Judges, shakin’ his Ast at] tered, On another occasion one eyc ae wh i world, a that we ha v 1 \ “ : ' n Broad. | ened. by High Command, em and tried it myself. Neither of | me. was so badly injured that he lost the| Maca * nee, Kir) og. A wut MEP 1" / , nan Eve aso ended pturins captor and | Us had no luck | Aw, fo to hell, you big stlff!’ I) sight of it, but he still pe ed in la. u it tea anil ' - s bringing er r at the The colloquy which followed re-| ba louder n him fying. He was made Captain, then|iyice as many ships as th i Hid Brent v i . nt , , | Amerjean hea tor ninds the reader of the bistoric in-| ‘They are taking Ed away when a! Major, He led Italian troops in the|rines are sink delmeted ne an “ r ree i oll gig ormbe first t mh he wri terview between an American dough | counter’ attack begins, He knovks| trenches on the Cargo during a coun-| Of this knis! Vienna will come loud cr rl lead nivus assault on them G a 19. Bs f a big square boy and the German Crown Prince, in/out his guard with a swing to the Jaw.| ter attack in which every opposing | ant and Intell cessation of this cruel war A ana une me linda ce "| which developed a case « Which the latter gravely assured the | disarms him and marches back to the} Austrian perished. Tiatian Aviation Corps and chi, : Hes will be bombarded by the »mow ‘ : Lope fright and missed m mer that Alsace was "a big lake." | American lines with his “tame| He led every raid on the important |neer tor Caproni—gives this ple'ure: / —, : As \ 1 n “What is the name of your regi- | Bo or which exploit he wins his Austrian naval port of Pola, a nest of The Flags of the Allied ! un rever thera t m that they Drawn by Candidate ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER, 13th Training Battery. 4 action. n to say is he Gio,” the | Was. and not first, Jest da |machine I Wherever there was the greats nt too. He always he x Ber educed by at Jown one of them shell hols had over to th F n 1 v go and jnmp wa f erman t ves with a Nandful of L p 1 Is they anybody | ¢ ‘i b C., ‘ 3 . Ast as he could pull the trigger, H Grludet Wa cane OF ot Ba al Gs. } 1 Phe ways 'Y und ed ou a the wottanwat “ PO VACCINATE writ y » 1 3 : olin fom aad Gad Saryenvion SeweuM Za 1 you throw your be aad make] tho! world but a darned good wre at ) and Y joyous wo rolled around 1 few of the ct ach from the brutal rams 1 able Turk, an slang | that | and! knife and f ly L got ou Ak he my t eh H.C. W Knowed the “He is a poet in action, and thereform . . i : ee eee » 1 love him because ‘he ix not only ; , Sie a 2s is wack S14Ab MUA ehh LAN Serseantcy submarines and war v wh grit Cae 8 ; ’ ations : : the baynet through the ribs, yellin The Lenox Avenue Assassins! I “from Baseball to Boches" is pub-| much damage was done by the equad-|has done In thin war what mo one oe BG TL, Sanborn ; eee c 1 grenades look nsthin' lisa pinning whiles dala’ es, Tk pave xed by Small, Maynard & Co. rons of giant Caproni planes, Two the, younger poets has done, and he wT. L, | 4 ALS Peace is re a aaeas = is fifty-four years old. He has been V ue 4 - i louse jown nm me, and y f. , No. 8&—~Greece. j an Cerniana with. Butliwo of them German trampe ia so| SOME VACCINE THEY SHOULD GIVE US AT THE INFIRMARY. DEIN GCAEy UrAnoRT Witetine: In the Capront ’ especially prepared t }for him he stayed up nine hours aad 4 quart without landing. Unidor his impulse all the big r made.” And for himself, the man who was alled the head of the schoo sadents and who has pro noblest Roman of them a ne characteristic wish—t dle for his country in the moment of y | My spirit go to rejoin tha nated alae i Allin Natinc war book, “From Base | was over |souis of Virgil and Dante when youe ‘ iit ite aue hue eft n | ores ball to Bochos,"" ts spilling aver “L bad some trouble climin’ out of valor has once again established’ + : ; ‘ i ‘ 4s api 01 hed the saaeaie gn the eolor acheme of thet: | power! a. way From Baseball to Boches” is a col- | this mud, and when L did L seen L wa pee World capital on the Capitoline Hut: ew pational banner. agains the Bulgarian A lection of letters from one Ed Har-| through for the day, anyways, 1 A ar OF . wa he exclaimed to his fellow soldicis a the e day, ys. They Qos’ ete eae Sor rome. ‘saute “Not for me to li - The Grecian flag consists of nine) kans \mon, formerly @ tamewe Big Langue | was taese: ashen Geviek ch ne io] x autet. for, me, to linger of in ® oom \ inp ase. * » : ae eS See Leger | AAAS AEDST RAMEE AOI NAL