Italy at War and the Allies in the West

Italy at War and the Allies in the West is by E. Alexander Powell. A caption names the King of Italy and the Prince of Wales, and says the King bluntly refused when the Prince asked permission to visit a trench which was being heavily shelled.

From Genoa to Pisa, a distance of a hundred miles, the railway closely hugs the Mediterranean shore, and at night all the curtains on that side of the train must be kept closely drawn. Officers and men assembled in front of brigade headquarters are hastily donning their masks, grotesque-looking contrivances of metal, cloth, and rubber, which in shape resembled a pig's snout. The book says that, should you feel like giving up the theatre this evening, or taking a street-car instead of a taxi, or not opening that bottle of champagne, the money would be very welcome to Dr. du Page and his wounded. A woman returning from America, where she had gone to collect funds to carry on the work of the hospital, sailed on the Lusitania.