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Show QQRIZIA BftTTERED BY THEENEMYUWS Italians Reduce the City to Ruins, but Still the Aus trians Hold Out 100 PERSONS KILLED Town Is in Darkness and All the Inhabitants Arc Living Underground (SpMat Cab b ArrBMarot m h Ijoodon ly Tvlaftapa and ki m N i atrvlc RERUN n.. 9 The Taiebla t prima be folio ns VQRIZH rv Th J v -onl nue - to be toon bardeil I tie ltal ana. Evers m-t a eral fiu aired shells drop a It Of tha ho aea, e en one haa tieen track, and 1AM ha e been badl dan agad. Not a single rhur h has escaped Thwra la not a whole pane of laa In tha town Ever where j o i see heaps of deorig one story hljh a n e t e ltal laaa si ot tha n unl pal cas orks to places, the cll has been w h a II. t at ulaM uoriaia resen bles a a uraad black clt if Maupaasa s no el A SO b centimeter shell has Just fallen before a coffee house and the treat has boon turned Into a a int. h r The ofee ho aa. which had kuu been losed became transly all e Tl e air pres sura mads the billiard table dane the batlard cues rattled fron t) elr rack OS red and wMte I or balls stru k acatnst one another as If s osts nere P Tin Two streets from here I the c ue some "square ot human blood There a bearv ahU struck and like a w Id beast, tors man and women to pieces. Rnd blood flowed in tha gutters The lead are no longer there, but small pools of llood remain, and Id one lira a single head ail that la left ot a man 100 killed The Italians hare killed 100 persons in Goriala and seriously Injured 300 Man hundreds have been hurt. The Italian Svernment wanted success st an) price J the opening of parliament. That Is way the defenders of thsGonaia bridge bead ne or refer to the fourth Isomu battle bv any name except the parlla maBt battle. At present Osha is the hottest point ths Ujh ting There an almost regular rasjthM Is obser ed First the Italians attack- second. the take a part of a trench third there Is a night counter attack fourth, in the morning the tren h Is again Id our hands "Only a few hundred persons remain above the ground In this clt former! of ts.Ms. Ine old Goriala no longer exists nevertheless. Its torn er Inhabits ts are slowly returning Doll fresh shells fall upon tine city and dally more people come back. They are no longer Inhabitants of old Goriala. for they have founded s new citv underground its inhabitants now number 3000 The do not live in houses, but in cellars and in catacombs like the early Christians, where a pathetic piimi tive communism binds them together Government m Cellars. "Not only, toe citizens, but the whole or official Oorrxta as wen have crawled un derground. The entire city government has retired into the cellars. Here Is s whole row of subterranean offices. Bn uring. ou almost fan o er a writing ta ble and a straw seat. That is the bureau vf finance A straw. stack lies near by That is where the finance director sleeps. Inunediatelv adjoining Is the police headquarters the table stool wash basin robes, everything In a space of two yards' square. To the right is another table. That is the division of sanitation. Hers sits the chief municipal medical officer and the city seboot Inspector Another ta We is the municipal building and tenement department. smaller table Is the de partment of charities and census bureau Near b is a real treasure s typewriter and behind a female stenographer the only one upon the premises. Then follow the mail, bookkeeping cash er s offices, and kitchen, for s well regulated city government must have Its I own kitchen A straw mattress belongs to the in 1 ventory of every office Officials are not only working and eating but sleeping j here Goriala has burrowed underground but I the cellar life has quickl de eloped a humor of Its own As I asked after a I certa n office the official said that It had been burned down but unfortunate y the f re was verv quick) put out so that manv ue ess records were saved j |