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Show Conan Doyle Had Vision Of Victory on the Piave "Upon April 4 at last year, 191 T. I a wok with a feeling thai soma eorn-muntcatton eorn-muntcatton had bean made to ma ot which I had only carried buck on word which waa ringing In my head. I I'l-at word waa 'Plav.' To tha beat of my belief 1 had never heard the 'word before., Ag It Bounded Ilk th nam of a pi are 1 went Hito my study th moment 1 had dressed and looked up th Index of my atlas. There waa l'le ura enough, and I noted that It waa a river In Italy some forty mile he-hind he-hind the front line, which at that time vi a victoriously advancing- I could ii.-iaclne a fsw more unlikely thing than that the war should roll hark to the IMave, and 1 could not think how any military vnt of consequence could arise there, but non the lean I statement that aome such event would occur there, and I had It signed by my secretary and witnessed by my wife with th date, April 4. attached. It I a matter of history how six months later the whole Italian line fell back, how It abandoned, success! v positions upon this stream which was said by milliary critics to be strategically almost al-most untenable. If nothing more should nectar (I write upon February 20, 1911), the reference to the nuns has been fully ful-ly Jnmifted pr'Btiinlng that some friend In th beyond waa forecasting th coming com-ing events of the war. 1 have still a hope, however, that aom crowning victory of the allies at this spot may )iiHttfy atlll further the strange way In which th name waa conveyed to my mind." i Krom The New Revelation," by 8lr Arhnr CVvrsn tiyle. |