The civil government at Grado Redenta . Grado: The Belvedere. - 149 - polis of the Venetian lagoons became a museum of antiquities, notalways in keeping with its bad times. The contact with pleasure-seekers had a negative influence on the minds of the young people,with very little advantage to their morals. Our declaration of war found Grado deprived of any a population of 6000, more than 1 200 were conscripts in theAustrian army. In like proportion Italy would have called 6,800,000men to arms. There remained merely the old men, the women andchildren, and a very few who had man
The civil government at Grado Redenta . Grado: The Belvedere. - 149 - polis of the Venetian lagoons became a museum of antiquities, notalways in keeping with its bad times. The contact with pleasure-seekers had a negative influence on the minds of the young people,with very little advantage to their morals. Our declaration of war found Grado deprived of any a population of 6000, more than 1 200 were conscripts in theAustrian army. In like proportion Italy would have called 6,800,000men to arms. There remained merely the old men, the women andchildren, and a very few who had managed to escape from theoperation of the rigid Austrian regulations. But in Grado, like some fire covered up by cinders that yet breaks. The Fiist anniversary of the Liberation of Grado: The Commemoration. - 150 The Memorial Stone. forth with a kindling breath, all minds were afire with the hope of libe-ration. They had not long to wait. Their impatience was a noble one. On the afternoon of 25 May 1915, when one of our destroyershad made an inspection of the lagoon, a group of ladies and youngpeople unfurled the Italian flag on the beautiful campanile, where inlong past days had been displayed the glorious standards of SS. Er-magora e Fortunato and S. Marco; they decided to hoist the tricolourin order to announce to the city and over the broad lagoon thatthe moment of freedom had arrived. The ringing of the bells pu-blished the fact, sounding out in that solemn hour. Jovful beneath the sparkling sunlight, the silken banner meets
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