4v fills-1M!!! front toner. . trescos of Ticpoio dumped in mwmeesiiir NEWv-ME 080m i511! consign-mu. cameo» 5mg , care not. M0118 0H) CHURCH 0f iflf W 0110 offlulrtlonmtsoiilie lurid lion 3 Wreck With it"s loot Blown tiff WENICE. italy, Dec. 24.*(Corres' pandemic of the Associated Press.)-. often: of tire bomb raids on Venice was studied» is The Annotated Press, when an Inspection under or- tlcinl escort was made of the havoc and ruin in the W old church 91 1119111111121 one of the art monuments of he \iorld, now a wreck with its rooliblown 0R, its massive walls tot- terhg, and the famous ceiling fresco by 'ricpolo, valued at wmlllihn francs, lying in heaps of rubbish in the ruins of the building. There have been 3 bomb raids on Venice, but this was the worst_ and the historic church bore the hill brunt of ii. Appndehinz the massive ediilce one sees pumping hole in the .3111. extnd- The facade. fronting the Grand Canal, is intact, and three sculptured figures standing along the cornice remain untouched. But back of the figures the roof eats away in a curved line downward on! then up again‘to the rear wall, as though some giant hand had reached down 11ml torn out the whole top of the church. leaving only the front and the rickety side walls still intact. Workmen can be seen high above be gluing thew out of salvage and repair and hearty timbers are being laced across the gaping hole left by the bomb. Entering the historic church a scene of heme and ruin is presented-twist- ed beams and arches. panels and col umns oi alabaster rushed into bits find lying around in heaps, the richly carv- ed pulpit hioun to pieces with only a faint outline of its former uondors remaining, and nflbote, the roof wide open to the sky, with the uo‘nderful huge masses of debris‘on the stone pave- merit. Faint. edges of the grand old (rescue still cling to the side walls, giving some idea of the beauties of “the work torn aw.ny Six enormous arches spanned the edifice meeting in J the middle and giving an liltel‘leliing space for these frescos. Not a ves- tige remains of the main subjects. the visit: of the Virgin" to Loreto‘ contain ing hundreds of ibihlical and allegori‘ cal figures, the ragged edges showing, only cloud effects and the background with a 1811! figures The high altar. with spiral alabaster columns and rich decorations. is not touched. and another curious fenutre is that the rel/fresco was circling the church. eciric candles are undisturbed the electric bulbs 4. shining as brightly as ever. But with * 1 these two exceptions—the high 111th far in the rear. and the circling can- 4dles~oeverything is a ruin, frescoed V ' ceiilns,inlaid marble sidewalks. scuip gun's,“ confessionals, memorial tob- let haptistry and marble mosaic pave- 1' merit—all lying about in fragments. ' , tors are similarly represented on 1314 . This was the busy nour, wnen the gon- tdeiu were crowding the Grand Canal 4 and the Venetian were shopping and marketing Suddenly a single mono mewaleeeninthenenhemm 4eomtng from the direction of the Ann- ‘trtsu frontier. 'it was flying very high Wt 2.5m meters. PM It nut did not recognize this. speck as an enemy ' on destruction. Boon. however, the steam syren at the Ar- 4eenal gave a long wail-the signal of warning—end the .people scattered to cellars and any available cover The aeroplane was new in dull M, heId~ tug straight for the big reiilway station oi Venice, the center of a network ‘of railway connections. Just above the station the aeroplanebegsn to circle round and round. Clearly it was no», in; to bomb the station. But at l.- 600 meters heights the aim is not. soot! and besides there was mist adding to the tifillcdlties of a sure shot. Dawn canine ham—«people could see it tall—bet lute-d at the station. it struck square on top of the female old church. it did lode immed-4 lately as it strdekv W. instead 1t made I clean Wilma!!! the root. and then. shooting downwards. explodu ed just above and in fro_iit1 1o! the pol pit. This internal explosion 'is what caused the terrible destruction u be- I sides the iiying tragments of the band) and its shrepnell contents. the and” don expansion of air in the confined 4 interior of the church literally ilftcd4 the root from the supporting walls and blew it skyw.iu-d One side of the roof was bent over to the right the other . to the left, beams and arches om'fing' upward and over, while masses of tie. brie settled down between the walls. The i‘rescoml selling had disappeared I in an instant. Particles of the Ibmnlr (lug deep into the alabaster facing. the walls. cracking and wrenching the marble ptfittrs 11nd wide walls from 4. floor to roof. Even the marble floor. made of huge slabs formal in mosaics was torn 1111.1n chunks. One huge slab of the floored covered the tomb of‘ some of the tedious Venetians or old-‘ on days. 11nd this was .wrsnched out exposing theiomh below. The explo- sion occurred when‘the church desert. oil so that no loss of life resulted. To the 1111 world the damage to the. ‘ famous old church in an irreparable loss. Everywhere it was known as the type of the Venetian harkue style and next to the church of E11111 Mn- ria “as the n‘est example this style in the world. The from o by 'l‘ie- polo, covering the entire ceiling, was. of course. the greatest loss, as nextf to Titian. Tintoretto, and Paul Ver- 011M» 'l‘ie'oolo Was accepted as the‘ greatest of descriptive painters, and the last of the older schol or famdué Venetian masters.i The destroyed 4 his most representative work. and probably the largest. At-_ ~ ter1 nearly Silo years the painting was in an arches: state of preservation. the vividness of. the coloring and the ‘great number of figures in the colos- sai work—measly 100 feet across—731v- 1' ing it a special interest‘and vehicle the art world ‘ only by chance. too; is it Tiepelo‘sr work that is destroyed 1nstesd of Titian’s or Tiritorotto’s for” these 111 ceilings and walls of many of 4ci1nrclies and historic monuments out this bomb did not ample“. A111 ralda‘ls f0 WWI—fiend—and’th‘e railway satin. the (armor being the chief defensive work of Venice with‘ large stones of ammunition, while the: railway Winn junction for many 1- lines for strategic military more? meat: toward the frontier. The bome thus far have (alien outside the Arsen- shinnerrcweidestreetn tart-cup the streets and riddling the houses but not causing much loss at lite. The canals are everywhere. and many of the bombs have fallen in the water. The nearest approach to the famous: Camp-nine Ind Dogea‘ Palace on of bomb which fell midway between the column having the winged lion of San Marco and the column of Sanli‘heoy doro, both on the Platna San Marco. other bomb fell in the Grand Canal hut in front or the Dores' Pause. Both of these bombs. which fortunate 1,- were harmless. struck within a“? hundred yards of the most famous monuments in Europe. OVERCOATS The Best Values in the City $10 to “2.50- GOTTHEB ii ”I. Main 0%. be. some: u—eio—oiuo um 3&1th A PIE this in the Cinema Plant. .... fro 1[lie best fresh fruits _. obtainThie. Ask Your Grocer tor Them We. (Iiimtc Failed; rIllciiictilic mlitirctive m... lent-dice think that medicine “Will not . flu-ooh"m air. regain: habitI. an E" in rum ne'eitls r more iI Merton neede Ede been restored to man‘ I Alter-attire. «tonne-"Ion rouge our 1-- atrmullty“ have “.0: ”:3: u I was re grew. hr u. lites. 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