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...Italy, above the River Po, other Germans moved from Austria, from Yugoslavia, and possibly from southern Italy, which the Germans patently did not expect to hold. From the area of Udine and Venice they spread west almost to Milan. Nazi troops also concentrated in the upper Adriatic's Istrian peninsula, where the late Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio seized Fiume after World...
...male is less than an inch long. The female is twice his size and gives birth to live fish. Surface-feeders, they gladly gobble all the mosquito "wigglers" they can hold. Italy bought 200,000 of them every year from U. S. fish dealers and dumped them into the Istrian ponds. They gobbled their weight in "wigglers." Fortnight ago the Italo-German Institute of Marine Biology announced that the gambusia had gobbled malaria clean out of Istria...
Italian Lake. By the occupation of Corfu, off Epirus, the Italians strategically if temporarily realized their dream of turning the Adriatic Sea into an Italian Lake. Italy owns the whole of the Istrian peninsula in the North and by the occupation of Corfu she blocked the Straits of Otranto in the South. This meant that she could control practically the entire southbound trade of Central Europe, which passes through the ports of Trieste and Fiume...
...Plume was a port of the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and is situated on the Istrian Peninsula (not in Dalmatia) on the Adriatic Sea. The area is eight English square miles and the population is 49,806. SignOr Attilio Depoli is the head of the Provisional Government...
...building as planned is two stories high. The main entrance, which will be of Istrian stone, will be reached by a flight of steps from the quadrangle. There will also be a side entrance on the west for the use of students. On the lower floor, an exhibition hall, 52 feet long and 32 feet wide, is to be devoted to a valuable collection of Greek, Roman, and Renaissance casts. This hall will extend upward through two stories. In the rear of the ground floor there will be a corridor, separated from the exhibition hall by Doric columns supporting...