Show awro TM a rp r P I 1 I 1 id A 4 gi efm 4 X at I 1 JP manuel u n m f B III B i B asa 4 va x of italy Is it a scholar 3 L IR student af as and Family z man but I 1 when the Call toWar 1 I sounded 1 1 Became He ih at once an tv meffie MEff iH abiri s s dier in the field 1 l 1 I IC actor TOR EMMANUEL III the scholar chain and ad student among presen present daiy diy mon arabs archs the KO sovereign soe reign of quiet family life when the call to war bounded became at once the first soldier among 4 italian soldiers saya say tile the milwaukee S sentinel a ina unanimity of more mora complete than at say any time in a generation the nation rallied around the king as the bearer of the national if flag socialists socialist liberals liberal and jim not only on ly forgot 11 their special P c doctrines d and a tenets tenet but vied led with one another in becoming loyalist the than the monarchical a followers them 8 selves A fir first t natural tendency was to exaggerate rate balth with fill a wealth of detail more or or in leas a important in pr to rc the simplicity and democratic character here ter ot of the kings king life at the front A little if I 1 tle ot of this however goes a a long 1 way and d the italian press has been in prompt to P t in putting fit a stop to the multiplying ot of little homely tales which are liable to carry with them an element of triviality A few let letters re from soldiers to their belr families entries to give all the information of this kind about the king a daily life that I 1 ia to considered important to be known as an insist insistence crice upon them might naturally lead to the inference that 1 in this fr form of batinic BIt existence inic is in comprised the file mon man arch 11 a entire activities with the my army such a letter Is ig the following from private flasco fla Fian cesco Ma maeirt mirt addressed to hit his father 1 I recently found myself near a the kin king g in an observatory aib arval r hah I 1 had to build bu ild As agile as a hare he b moed around from fr of one a cor a bed ner fler to another their I 1 assure aon ou th that at he is exceed fegly brain brae he ate lunch inch with us and ad divided lit his of ham bam and cheese with sith us ua and after ward oard gave us a tour four toscano tiger and ad spoke with us as it if he had bedier heeb himself a simple sol eol asking kin 9 us a many q questions this tailed failed to in his letter tile tact fact that ha waa hab one 0 of a company pany who had bad distinguished them in belies by a briA brillant lant achievement which was 1 am portent in the dvo dav s military operations operation and that if ft he and his companions had been signally hon ban ored by the king it was as not because the latter mingles on all occasions more or losa a familiarly with his privates but as recompense bad and ericourt argement for duty well performed the king himself Is a soldier and Is consulted by G general I 1 caldoina n a th the rule chief f of stall staff on every movement of C im importance pr tane and regarding the dally daily line of endeavor but he leaves leave a to the command era or the performance in afoa are ot of their various a a functions f and the stories told in a mistaken zeal ot of ex Bg a Z g rate it loyalty loys I 1 ty by some correspondent on dents regarding r ga adt a the actual direction of artillery tiro tire or in infantry fantry movements by the king himself aro are prote protested td against by all serious persons person as do de testing their purpose besides being literally in cr crt correct t the th press pro of italy today dwells dwell only on a bich ch incidents in is as may bo be considered symbolic such as the event narrated in a letter by soldier fr franco nao tom inella on when n he be wr wrote ate the kings king a presence cures core or of muan a inal influence in on ill the minds of on our eol bud 1 ia tile the presence be ol 01 our r be beloved it king and ad 1 in pr ll 11 till this regard to said I 1 wish to tell iou an the th incident ideal that happened to a sergeant of artillery named via bcd cenzo a native ot of luma this poor fellow after or figh fighting lor for a 1 long bg time was oas severe ly 11 w wounded ab d in th the jagrin arm mid and w waa f found it by the am balance bu lanct corps 1 in an unconscious condition when he recovered his seabea a we observed ban a d with tile tress tr thit be ilal become bar dumb and that he had bad lost t the he power of speech it happened happ nd fiat at that moment our sov ft was in the neighborhood and ad learning of the sad ad case a bu be hastened bosomed with his customary paternal solicitude to the bedside of the injured man so go gl gibat eat was the tha emotion experienced by the soldier at 1 aba it big sight h t of the ilia king that speech suddenly returned to him and he nas tree free from fr the nervous arvous crisis that h id it been brought on by the sudden for terror he had felt on finding that he was wounded and risked falling ailing into the hands ol 01 tha enemy my aa a ir prisoner r a ibe be baht if st cry that thai issued from his lips was long live italy long live our beloved king thu th sovereign by tho the words word patted the soldier on the head and ad aard aid my brave boy you are a true italian victor emmanuel cornea comes well by his martial qualities scion of the proud dynasty of savoy and grand flin of that doughty warrior king victor emmanuel II 11 he was waa born in naples on november 11 1869 and bore the title of prince ot of no na pies till his accession to the thron throne on july 29 1900 i married in rom rome on october 24 1896 to PH a helen of Monten montenegro grit he ha b became the father of tour four children pran C cesa yolanda born bore in 1901 prin le cess mafalda kofahl born in 1903 1902 prince humbert leir to the throng throne born on september 16 1904 and ad princess e GI giovanna a but born 1 in 1907 the then prince of naples entered the italian army amy in 1887 as giel tenant he became colonel in 1890 major general 1 two years later hint li lieutenant ber at general in 1894 and general 1 in crumn command a d ot 1 the forces fare at naples in 1 1897 king victor emmanuel is fa honorary doctor ot of law laws of the universities of oxford and pl pennal vanla vanda honorary comme commander com maider aler in several a foreign go arcales a knight of the garter and an authority on numismatics numismatic A volume bubli he by him on this subject was recently crowned crooned by the institute of frince france an exceptionally happy incident which has haa made its ita due impression on a people of such artistic tastes as the italians was the recent dis covery or rather rediscovery of a war lyric by oue ot of italy a great poets past which i aich Is fa bele being adopted as appositely made for the present struggle str V when on victor emm emmanuel I 1 of sardinia had bad units under to taken fi en the redemption of italian provinces over 11 half al r a century ago giosue Card carducci cid bad com cant paz posed red a noble able pon poem with the title to the king K ing A national B nal song sing by some strange rate fate it wib a neglected a it and then hen fo forgotten rhotten its every line I 1 la I 1 today d ay appropriate to the work of redemption of italian provinces province undertaken by victor Emmon emmanuel Lele III war fixes c the nation a attention the kings kegs it name should not be handled bandied about Is the deci declai atlon of an italian writer mide in the tribune tile the mivela of activity of course courage of abnegation of heroic and smiling fath arImes shown by king N lepir election emmanuel baya 0 this writer write and say marvels marvel constantly renewed and I 1 constantly 0 tautly ris ing n 9 to heights by othera other hes have now w be tome I 1 like the pit pure air jr 11 one breathes and the pure sky one no cont contemplates eirp I 1 lor for the be calming ing of tears fears calan and it fit the motI exaltation tabon of the a spirit it I 1 Is impossible 1 lo 10 succeed I 1 in ahl ahing as tiK adequate quat account of in them and ad it 1 is dangerous to wv weave a crown of abec c dotes date some might be led to form a mental pi picture etar of the kj king g through an anecdote nechol which should intent not at and it cannot be regarded ot others lerois iia the than a aa a sambo B abol lot let us ua bow reverently he be says eye let us as not try to build up images would only be inferiorly ties tica that would sound d KB pro profanations a e t ie let a us keep 1 in 0 our heart with regard to the king a re legious sense a mystic in a correspondence from tho the front a noted french fre n eh writer iter mr air jean cararo arrero attar describing tho tha king a life I 1 in the field duall dwells up upon the do de gre gree to which victor emmanuel Lm manuel manuet has become I 1 lar with his army and his people bufore the war ho be baya aye victor emmanuel was waa profoundly respected by all admired by those who had bad the honor better to him beloved by those I 1 around 0 d him I 1 hot but perhaps in t the le 0 p precise reci a a an and d B broader sense or of tap word be wai n sot of absolutely bc a y popular this be it remarked for far reasons which aro are profoundly to the honor of the monarch h in 1 a order to be popular in the time of peace a so adov errien must have camm external forms of us ex therance ube rance a certain predilection for pomp and show chow and it if one may adopted a mod modern ter term a certain capacity tor for bluff all these were re to tho the stra I 1 sincere and to some democratic nature of the king of at its italy I 1 y he ha would certainly never have consented I 1 to lend lead to say any of th those displays display and ad by which hichi certain other sovereigns I 1 loved d to put themselves 1 in badu BI evidence du V 1 F leads lead in the Sl simple irple I Lab orlou life in italy where all are so go intimately simple w where here domestic life 1 la a passion it pleased him the first of the nation a nobles noble to lead bad the simple laborious life of a great bourgeois hour 91 11 11 and d to give the example or of the dom domestic elb virtues as and yet these qualities however apar appreciable his ion in n nor normal of times had so to say the in inconvenience no of not of being visible from near lar at t land hand bad and ot of mak back ing big no an sensational ati 1 I impression m on on 0 the patina judgment B at of the crowd which i la drewy always food fond of a certain amount of the theatrical scarcely bad the great upheaval of the war come cas to call forth from the depths of the popular soul all the great qualities that were there latent than italy in its seti entirety drew draw itself up before its new destiny and then all of a sudden the people re remarked marked in their king the most vital qualities of italy itself and recognized in him their true leader this king to whom the most captious critics could only rep reproach a certain want of military display at once made the finest boost of all 11 shine around him namely the that of of roial roal love tor for the people and the army of in tepidity in the presence of danger of kindness for the kioes of the tha humble that chivalrous prestige which were and great human tribes cause to irradiate around the truly noble souls irra lates now around victor emmanuel emmanual he As has proved today that the best means meana ot of he e tug ing a popular king in a great country Is to show that on one deserres de it private communications or are not held directly with tho the king oven even at the front but through the intermediary of his hia stall staff on certain art I 1 11 more or imbor important t ant count om C cadorna the mo la the medium thou an opportunity may be accorded too the pit public bit to t read as interesting interest I 1 ag a letter aa the following from froe generel C cadorna adorna to the editor of t the h i idea do next nazi ommie amle who sho had bad written to announce ce th the s offer 0 of f SO 50 OGO lite hie 10 GOD made by a mr air cleric to tor distribution among the soldiers adlar who may cap to to the ficat 11 Atut chin Lin hags flags the rolla italian corn to under mander wrote A letter from the chief I 1 have had mr air g lear leoe rouB ad patr patriotic ints offer communicated to tle fruit troops p under my corn ma roand ad in ray my name lame and in th theirs airs I 1 beg you to eap exp express ties to the tha biami our gratitude lor for the tbt arounia coal cent ait act a new proof ot of the ad rivalry throughout th country by all classe from the most conspicuous to tho the most humble bumble in en an 1111 ve loping pling the it army my with i ali 1 ioa of 1 affection ical and ad tir on bit c or a the army rm Y which with ital italy in its heart aby offers every day with serene bareti a joy jay the example pl ol of fit the most at elevated 1 fail spirit of rifled ri flea I 1 am person ally grateful to vou on tor for your noble and battering tattering tatt ering and for your good ihs which I 1 ro turn lii in the name of our bravo soldiers soldier obe oy mtnor cab com could not of have hava chosen a more worthy messenger than you base untiring work as aa a t apostle contributed BO a much to beat hasten in the hour of national awak awakening ning bud anil vied cadiou u or rights to ahr through ugh which the dream stated for by our fathera fot liera la ia about to be trana tams gracd by th the f force are of brou prou and ad of national if I 1 vu vir bus in into ut a radiant reality probe probably ni ma more re than any other arcu armi today tua the italians italian a are spurr spurred d a on by a battle cry the word bavola savoy it 1 IB the dynastic name of un the to royal al house bouse and in uttering it the tha soldier idler ill ka of cit ble beloved king ot at vittorio Il manuele d dl casa sa bavmia at |