The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean

The New Frontiers of Freedom
from the Alps
by Edward
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BY E. ALEXANDER POWELL
THE NEW FRONTIERS OF FREEDOM THE ARMY BEHIND THE
ARMY THE LAST FRONTIER GENTLEMEN ROVERS THE END
OF THE TRAIL FIGHTING IN FLANDERS THE ROAD TO
GLORY VIVE LA FRANCE! ITALY AT WAR
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
[Illustration: THE QUEEN OF RUMANIA TELLS MAJOR POWELL
THAT SHE ENJOYS BEING A QUEEN]

THE NEW FRONTIERS OF FREEDOM
FROM THE ALPS TO THE ÆGEAN
BY
E. ALEXANDER POWELL
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1920
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published April, 1920

TO A REAL AND LIFELONG FRIEND MAJOR J. STANLEY
MOORE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Owing to the disturbed conditions which prevailed throughout most of
southeastern Europe during the summer and autumn of 1919, the
journey recorded in the following pages could not have been taken had
it not been for the active cooperation of the Governments through
whose territories we traveled and the assistance afforded by their
officials and by the officers of their armies and navies, to say nothing
of the hospitality shown us by American diplomatic and consular
representatives, relief-workers and others. From the Alps to the Ægean,
in Italy, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Turkey, Rumania,
Hungary and Serbia we met with universal courtesy and kindness.
For the innumerable courtesies which we were shown in Italy and the
regions under Italian occupation I am indebted to His Excellency
Francisco Nitti, Prime Minister of Italy, and to former Premier Orlando,
to General Armando Diaz, Commander-in-Chief of the Italian Armies;
to Lieutenant-General Albricci, Minister of War; to Admiral Thaon di
Revel, Minister of Marine; to Vice-Admiral Count Enrice Mulo,
Governor-General of Dalmatia; to Lieutenant-General Piacentini,
Governor-General of Albania, to Lieutenant-General Montanari,
commanding the Italian troops in Dalmatia; to Rear-Admiral
Wenceslao Piazza, commanding the Italian forces in the Curzolane
Islands; to Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Chiesa, commanding the Italian
troops in Montenegro; to Colonel Aldo Aymonino, Captain Marchese
Piero Ricci and Captain Ernesto Tron of the Comando Supremo, the
last-named being our companion and cicerone on a motor-journey of
nearly three thousand miles; to Captain Roggieri of the Royal Italian
Navy, Chief of Staff to the Governor-General of Dalmatia; to Captain
Amedeo Acton, commanding the "Filiberto"; to Captain Fausto M.
Leva, commanding the "Dandolo"; to Captain Giulio Menin,
commanding the "Puglia," and to Captain Filipopo, commanding the
"Ardente," all of whom entertained us with the hospitality so
characteristic of the Italian Navy; to Lieutenant Giuseppe Castruccio,
our cicerone in Rome and my companion on dirigible and airplane
flights; to Lieutenant Bartolomeo Poggi and Engineer-Captain
Alexander Ceccarelli, respectively commander and chief engineer of
the destroyer "Sirio," both of whom, by their unfailing thoughtfulness
and courtesy added immeasurably to the interest and enjoyment of our

voyage down the Adriatic from Fiume to Valona; to Lieutenant
Pellegrini di Tondo, our companion on the long journey by motor
across Albania and Macedonia; to Lieutenant Morpurgo, who showed
us many kindnesses during our stay in Salonika; to Baron San Martino
of the Italian Peace Delegation; to Lieutenant Stroppa-Quaglia, attaché
of the Italian Peace Delegation, and, above all else, to those valued
friends, Cavaliere Giuseppe Brambilla, Counselor of the Italian
Embassy in Washington; Major-General Gugliemotti, Military Attaché,
and Professor Vittorio Falorsi, formerly Secretary of the Embassy at
Washington, to each of whom I am indebted for countless kindnesses.
No list of those to whom I am indebted would be complete, however,
unless it included the name of my valued and lamented friend, the late
Count V. Macchi di Cellere, Italian Ambassador to the United States,
whose memory I shall never forget.
I welcome this opportunity of expressing our appreciation of the
hospitality shown us by their Majesties King Ferdinand and Queen
Marie of Rumania, who entertained us at their Castle of Pelesch, and of
acknowledging my indebtedness to His Excellency M. Bratianu, Prime
Minister of Rumania, and to M. Constantinescu, Rumanian Minister of
Commerce.
I am profoundly appreciative of the honor