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With emotions somewhat like Noah's when the dove brought the olive twig to the Ark, Romans learned last week that the first civilian train since the armistice would soon chug down to Naples. It will take the Stella Roma (Rome Star) twelve hours to make the 135-mile run that crack trains used to make in less than four hours. But to Italians, who for a year and a half have known the isolation, despair and hunger that follow the collapse of a highly developed technological civilization, the wail of the Stella Roma's whistle would seem...
...Fifteen hundred American M.P.s were on duty to handle traffic, crime, tipsy soldiers. Two streams of human traffic-Americans, English, Scots, Canadians, French, Poles, Italians, and striped-bath-robed Goumiers-flowed up & down the sidewalks into Via Roma...
Italian soldiers who had joined the Allies moved into positions in the Mignano area. They were veterans who had served in France, Russia, Africa, but they had had little chance to develop teamwork. They piled out of busses marked Roma O Morte (Rome or Death), went into the line noisily, clumsily, gave the enemy 36 hours' notice that an attack was brewing...
...bomb struck the Roma. The crew of the helpless R.A.F. plane saw the Roma quiver, rise slightly in the water, belch smoke from her 'midships superstructure. By good aiming and luck, the bomb had touched off a powder magazine. The forward turrets with their six 15-in. guns nodded and crumpled. The hull broke, made a great V. Twenty-one minutes after the bomb hit the Roma, she sank. She was the first battleship ever sunk at sea by bombing alone...
...four-and-a-half hours, intermittently, the other ships were bombed. The Italia was hit. She settled low in the sea but continued with the fleet. A few destroyers lagged to pick up survivors from the Roma. Admiral Bagliria was not among them. The main body of the fleet sailed on. At 8:35 a.m. next day, off Cap Bon, the Italia, the Vittorio Veneto and their lesser flock sighted H.M.S. Warspite, waiting with a British squadron...