The Archive · 1937

ITALIANS CELEBRATE KING'S BIRTHDAY

Ambassador Will Take Salute At Military Reviews The local Italian community will celebrate the birthday of their King to-day.

At 70 am. the Italian forces in Shanghai will stage a military review at the Race Course. The Italian Ambassador, Signor Guiliano Cora, will take the salute during the march past.

The Ambassador will later received local Italians at his residence at 6 p.m. In the evening the Italian Consul-General here, Commander L.

Meyrone, wil give a dinner at the Italian Club, which will be attended by Italian officers and ex-servicemen.

Also to mark the occasion, the Colonel in command of the Battalion of Grenadiers of Savoy stationed here has ordered that four thousand rations of food stuffs be distributed to-day by the battalion to Chinese refugees in the district defended by the Italian troops.—Central News.

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