Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1918 — D’ANNUNZIO GETS EVEN [ARTICLE]

D’ANNUNZIO GETS EVEN

By WARD PRICE.

Italian Headquarters at the Front —Maj. Gabriele d’Annunzio, Italy’s _ - who led the raid on Vienna, has carried out an adventurous personal reprisal for an Austrian night air raid during which one <rf the enemy machines dropped a bomb literally within yards of his sleeping quarters. The bomb did not explode, but its impact knocked over and broke a glass from which d'Annunzio had drunk an hour before. The soldier-poet gayly started off in the afternoon with his pilot in a new type, of a fqst, weight-carrying land machine. fie*’ about one hundred miles straight across the Adriatic sea to Fola, the Austrian naval base, dropped 14 bombs on the arsenal and returned safely to his aerodrome. I was waiting there when he arrived amid a round at cheers from hi* squadron. “There was a heavy barrage fire,”

he told us, “and once I thought our trail had been struck. Bpt not a single one of the Austrian chaser machines got up after us. The Austrians were very keen to get me, but they missed a good chance this afternoon.” D’Annunzio will wear henceforth In" his flights an ivory-hlited dagger. This weapon is the distinctive mark of the Italian storm troops, and all the eight airmen who took part in the raid on Vienna have been named by their comrades “The Storm Troops of the Ah'.”