Word: apulia
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Hero of the battle in the Italian press was 32-year-old Amadeo Umberto Isabella Luigi Filippo Maria Guiseppe Giovanni, Duke of Apulia, cousin of the King, son of the Duke of Aosta, who commanded a squadron of pursuit planes. While the defeated Senussi, with their wives, children, oxen and asses fled like Joseph and Mary into Egypt, Duke Amadeo harried them mightily from the sky, raked them with blazing machine guns, whistling bombs. "Along the route," cabled a correspondent, "water wells at Matea, Bisciara, and elsewhere are filled with bodies...
...presently he was joined by a wealthy citizen named Bernard of Quintaville and a canon from a neighboring church named Peter. These three built themselves a hut adjoining the leper hospital. Lepers he had loathed unspeakably. But perfect love had cast out loathing: it was on the road from Apulia. He jumped from his horse and embraced a leper. "He receives," said a Cardinal, "those whom God himself will not receive. ..." So he lived in hunger among rocks, trees, beasts. The birds, knowing his gentle heart, came close to him. Often he preached to them, and once, as his congregation...
Reported Engaged. Ileana, 16, "prettiest daughter of Queen Marie of Rumania and King Ferdinand," to the Duke of Apulia, 26, distant kinsman of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Ileana's less handsome sisters are respectively Elisabeth, exiled Greek Queen and Marie, YugoSlavian Queen. Princess Ileana, although tender in years has already, according to reports, been about to wed the Prince of Wales and King Boris of Bulgaria...