Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1920 — PIG, NOT BRITISH COLONEL [ARTICLE]

PIG, NOT BRITISH COLONEL

Italy's Chamber Gets Laugh Over Story of Mistaken Identity of “Drowned Personage.” : Rome—ln the general debate on the reply to the king’s speech. Count Frola who. although the ex-mayor of Turin, belongs to the socialist group, denounced several abases in the army. He declared that while during the war the front trenches had not sufficient automobiles to transport the wounded to hospitals, there were ntentv of automobiles to transport offlrrrg to theaters in neighboring When to Albania, Frola said, his genera. l . hM a P*S farm from which be sent dpßy melding nigs in autoninhiw afrompanied by an officer, Htntu Ouaranta. from which port ♦hautiptwere shipped on a transport the: general in Italy. A telegram was sent from Santa Aaannta to the general announcing

the arrival of the pigs, were designated as “personages.” Once a pig was drowned, Frola, continued, and the telegram to the general read “personage drowned.” Unfortunately an English colonel was due to arrive, so the general be- ; Heved the victim „to be the colonel j and ordered an - inquiry, into the drowning which lasted 15 days. The entire chamber was convulsed with laughter over this revelation. —