Show VENICE VENCE PUBLIC I SCHOOLS Def Defenses J Insure Protection Belief Air Raid Alarm Stirs San Marco darco Venice Jan 8 The S-The The public schools school Which were ordered closed when Venice was threatened and the city evacuated e Mare have been or erd to reopen January 15 This is an Indication of the reestablishment reestablishment reestablish reestablish- ment of oC partly normal conditions as the school board In making the order declared Its confidence that the defenses de defenses defenses de- de were sufficient to the protection of oC Venice from Invasion hi Parents having children ren of school age and who are able financially will be permitted to return at their own expense ex expense ex- ex 11 pense but the poor who were assisted assist assist- ed by the thc government when they left loft will not be assisted to return until conditions are arc completely normal The first t air all ral raid alarm In weeks was sounded oun Sunday Sunda afternoon when Austrian Austrian Austrian Aus Aus- trian airplanes appeared over San Marco Murco In broad daylight Sirens and antiaircraft craft guns buns announced the tho approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap and Italian a aviators ascended to give c battle But the enemy threw thre no bombs hombs and anel scurried westward west when they saw that the detective defensive I c preparations preparations were complete Honor lIonor was pal paid to the United States and the American America 1 TIe Red fled Cross today at a charity charit school for orphan children of or Italian soldiers Three hun hundred red and fifty of or these those children are cared for tor arid given Iven Instruction at the palace of ot San Gabriele At a meeting toda today the children sang American songs and waved American flans flags Consul Carroll today todar visited the Asiago plateau as the guest of or the Italian general staff starr He carried a ahu hu huge e supply of or knitted goods for tor the soldiers in the trenches Venice I is experiencing an unusual cold snap The canals are frozen Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the first time In years ears and the tho gondolas find It difficult to force torce a way through the Ice |