Show av es S v er Inventor to I Sw I INUNZIO NUNZIO w WELCOMES 1 HIS i w lEND MARCONI TO FIUME II I IN IN N PHRASES t H By Universal Service MUS ARIS Nov Nosh 13 Leav Leaving Leaving ng his magl magnificent ya yacht l Elec Electra ra elm Marconi arcoui the wireless wizard v zard land lauded d. d at fit t jig ju iQ ll is to the cause of d an and announcing hiss his erect the most powerful wireless wireless's station in tha wc world harbor I 1 rejoicing greeted Marconis Marconi's arrival and turning to the theand p and ud his soldiers d dAnnunzio hailed the inventor with the slatted ed words o of the following address i gY elmo Marconi we salute and andU U of ot Italy as it i s the universe with the rapid rapid- sta light i ut him here from t this rostrum impassioned faith and and confessions 5 i en the world which deserved e elieen een spread from the point of ot Ih a aerial antennas d o you ou people of Flume some go that hat there would soon be an- an tower another lighthouse In er sered Guglielmo Marconi oh scent hero llero in not having at the thet thes t s tower at the top of this use use on cot your metal needles ar am also pinnacles o of ng pint today landed In our midst he Ito I make the air vibrate forever he voice of ot Flume u ro rocks ks he comes to build one of of's s 's st powerful iron needles omes tomes to weapon weapon- our misgivings our protests the of our right of ot our courage of rs our cries of ot sorrow and w th lightning rapidity JS is Ith or OF ITALY Ira iru we we salute today the genius of ot great free tree Just human And as as me we always feel doubly Italian l thrice Italian when he is with us le Ie let me recall a distant hour a aI aal al let hour u let me recall it here r in ul I t which hl seems e to have a been e g I III living v ng by the holy cloth which I In n m told you was as covered with the theof theof of II your our brothers I as In March In the first year rear of ot ofir r 1 ir the day before I left lett for the Adriatic 1 late afternoon swept by a bat- bat loft white clouds I accompanied I mo Marconi to the wireless sta- sta I u suburb of ot Rome as one of ot those Roman hours I i you you feel that wh where whre re there is death It seemed as If it find n whirling the ashes of the ires transformed them into seeds The ruins seemed proud pro- pro And ud staring into the horizon so I possibilities we thought Who other life there Is another life Ufe ERS EARS EARS' ERS ERS' IN COMMON CAUSE were vt alone in the swift car sitting o edeh ch other To my old admiral admira- admira l be master of ot space was added tte sty Ity which springs from being L i companion of farms and that orb of ot spirit which friendship and creates b bot b wore the soldiers soldier's uniform h ad our hand on the sword we q 1 In rank equal In our desire v In our absolute surrender surrender to I ry w e o two soldiers of Italy His I J nd id my poetry had become Inn In- In n of ot war promises of ot victory t i cllon was the beginning of ot I It ng action must be the end of ot hing Such was the belief of ot his much uch the belief belle of ot my poetry the poetry which led me to Flume Flume from the I cemetery I Our thoughts were born and developed under the rh rhythm of will wilt power If I science really has a universal application I If tr poetry Is' Is destined to move the heart everywhere that night we felt ourselves men of our own land attached to our own soil bound up in our own race devoted devoted devoted de de- de- de voted to one idea soldiers idea soldiers of Italy one and only WHAT HIS INNER EYE SAW Guglielmo Marconi was there next to toI tome tome me his burnished sword between his knees and in my imagination I seemed I to see the immense wireless w web b which he had woven over the world the unmeasured unmeasured unmeasured un un- measured play play- of invisible currents which at this very mom moment nt were spreading over a blood stained earth calls and answers announcements and pra prayers ers of men cries of ot peril messages of victory confessions of pt disaster His Ills finely and sensitive mouth which is lighted so often by a smile of ot almost childlike Ingenuity was closed as asby asby asby by a a hermetic seal of ot secrecy I rad asked him Wizard is it true that you can see across the ocean with vision clearer than that with which the ancients credited the lynx He made the gesture o of son of ot the Mysterious Inside his finger on his lips I had asked him Wizard is it true I that your power has dominated even the sea and that you rou save our ships from submarine destruction He repeated the same gesture while Ia I a spark o of genius flashed in the corner lof of his blue eyes I JUST A SOLDIER a The silent rl ruler tUI soldier of cosmic cast l energy in iron had discipline become rg e I He embodied all potentialities all possibilities possibilities like that other Italian magician I Leonardo da Vinci but he hid them in deepest secrecy As Leonardo worked I for the of the Renaissance so he concentrated on the amazing of offensive offensive ot- ot and defensive measures of our holy war As Leonardo in his famous letter to Ludwig so Marconi was able to offer the king of ot Italy a series of ot miracles Along the old Roman road to th the left leU and right of ot us were traces of ot ancient beauty and grandeur Here was the I aqueduct Claudia there the republican tombs To one side the mausoleum where in a marble lie the ashes of ot Saint Helena mother o of Con- Con further on the bas relief o of the horsemen and beyond the little Church of ot the Mart Martyrs rs built on the Catacombs and in the ther far distance the hills the and the mountains hills of ot glory si silent silent silent si- si lent divinities shrouded in a blue more essential and dazzling than the azure of ot the sky AMID HIS APPARATUS We Ve arrived a at the clouds camp of C Centocelle could see I Under arrived the scurrying clouds we could see seethe seethe the high iron tower the aerial antennae the new sublime acropolis olis the tower or ot orthe the spirit the supreme temple of mystery mys- mys tery not built of marble of columns J arches or porticos but constructed by the newest of ot methods challenging the heavens by its naked and fragile architecture architecture architecture archi archi- an architecture a s sprung from necessity created by cosmic laws topped by the sensitive antennae radiating the energy becoming by the crossing of ot the horizontal and vertical sables a gigantic musical Instrument an aeolian harp the like of which was never seen vibrating in unison with the soul o of the of-the the universe The magician the hero vIas was in one of ot his dwellings among the iron towers among the cables among tre slender walls shaken shalen by electric vibrations moved b by the shock o of the terrible sparks The men attached t othe service service ice dressed in linen suits set with the insignia of the Italian navy pale and I trembling kept their dark eyes es fastened I on him as in a sort of ot mysterious fever I OBEY HIS SECRET WILL I He examined the various apparatus in ina ina a familiar way stroked them with an almost caressing gesture like a lion tamer would stroke his tamed and fascinated fascinated fas tas- fas- fas beasts Cosmic energy imprisoned Imprisoned imprisoned in the precise instruments measured measured measured meas meas- and enslaved spoke to the calm and dominating man a language which he understood as well as the speech of ot his own child The batteries of accumulators accumulators accumulators o of Leyden bottles the tors the condensers the Interrupters the revelators this combination of ot precise precise precise pre pre- cise functions of ot Intense movements this symphony of sound unknown to the seven pipes o of Pans Pan's flute and to the deep Wagnerian orchestra seemed to obey the secret will of this single man I seemed to vibrate to the beating of ot his arteries to belong to him as part of ot otI hl his hlf life f I We v were ere standing next each other up against the receiving apparatus With our left hand we each held our swords to keep trem from touching the floor We stood listening all attention The signals passed transmitted from the distant stations revealed by the quality of of- tone tone- tone messages messages Tram from k nf me S sages from England messages from Russia messages from America MESSAGE FROM AUSTRIA At one time the attendant said in a alow alow alow low voice message from Austria He took the apparatus from his ear to give It to me mc My great friend and amI I looked at each other thinking the same thought feeling the same sentiment the same trembling shaking our veins and marrow our soul roaring far away to the front where our brothers were fighting to the land already bathed in pure Italian passion Nude Alps of ot the Trentino Dogal sea of Trieste Imperial Imperial Im Im- lm- lm penal and royal too long trodden trodden trodden trod trod- den by barbarian feet Our Dalmatia narrow like the hem of a toga but the hem of a Roman toga Oh 1 Flume lume our Flume Fume BO so desperately our Flume Fiume Yes companions yes brothers this Is the cry which rings loudest through space SPi Arent Aren't nt all the antennae of ot the world worl vibrating with your rejoicing THREE TIMES ITALIAN Listen When the magician stepped off oft his boat you were like the soldiers I saw one day following him in the street oblivious of discipline anxious to see him at close range to recognize in his human form a sign of supernatural power filled with a superstitious fervor which made the onlookers onlooker's eyes unwillingly veil with tears The soldiers circled around him spoke of his secrets worshiped the great hero heroIn in him looked to him for the wonders of ot victory for messages of ot triumph If It this magician has secrets Fiume has his secret Listen Tomorrow from the white ship which floats on on miracles and animates animates animates ani ani- mates the ethereal silence of the world he will show me how to tell the world with my own voice the secret of Flume I Citizens soldiers of the legion Italians three times Italian through Guglielmo I Marconi glory of or Italy and of ot the world through Italy |