King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto embarked on the royal yacht Savoia. Members of the Italian Parliament boarded the Citte de Trieste. Both ships steamed out in the Tyrrhenian as dark settled down. They steamed ahead laying a course between Sardinia and Corsica, their lights glittered on the water, but on all the wide expanse of sea no other lights were visible. Yet ships, big and little, airplanes and dirigibles were speeding through the darkness about them. A week's sham battle at sea was...
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