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Back to Italy he went. At Milan he joined forces with the prominent Socialist Signor Bissolati, whom several years later he helped to expel from the Socialist Party. At this time, he was an uncompromising extremist, believing in force as the only means to win republicanism for Italy. At the beginning of the War, he was still a revolutionist, a republican. He wrote in the Socialist paper Avanti, of which he had previously become the editor: "We do not want war, because we are striving . . . to destroy the prestige of the dynasty, the Army and the State...
...population. Other cities in order are: Omaha (28.3 per 100), Minneapolis (24.8), Stockholm (24.6), Washington (24.1), Chicago (23.8), Denver (22.7), Los Angeles (22), Toronto (21). ¶ Cities with less than five telephones per 100 population include : Amsterdam, Osaka, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Antwerp, Glasgow, Liverpool, Prague, Manchester, Marseilles, Birmingham, Tokyo, Milan, Shanghai, Naples. ¶ The world's prize nonuser of telephones is Ecuador. She has only 392 and only 125 miles of telephone wire...
...Milan, one Lino Pagani has invented a new instrument-the mandolinarpa, strange Siamongrelute. From a mandolin neck bulges the warped body of a baby harp, edged with scrolls...
Enrico Ratti, papal cousin in Milan, was run into by a bicyclist, suffered grievous injuries. The Supreme Pontiff at Rome was notified of the accident...
Belluzzo. Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo, aged 48, studied engineering at Milan Polytechnic, where he was graduated in 1898 and where he became a professor in 1901. He wrote many books, invented a number of useful offensive weapons for use during the War and has held, during the past few years, a number of important positions. His appointment as Minister of National Economy was acclaimed by all sections of public opinion and one of his tasks will be to give effect to Mussolini's policy of making Italy independent of cereal and coal importations by developing the colonies and the water...