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3 April 1908 — Rome | |
Friday. 3rd [April 1908]. I accompanied Olga for a drive at 9.30 a.m. to the Borghese gardens to see where the Russian bazaar is to be held tomorrow & Sunday & returned by 11. The papers this morning gave an account of the row of yesterday when 3 people were killed. It appears that a republican procession was formed for the funeral of a workman who had been killed by fall from a scaffold. The procession tried to break thro’ a cordon of soldiers & police & not succeeding seized some bricks off a passing cart & wounded a guardia. The troops were ordered to fire & killed 3 anarchists. In revenge the anarchists proclaimed a general strike for today & no one dared to take out their carriage in the centre of the town. Sophy Franqueville walked up here to see me in the afternoon & we sat in the garden for a long time. The Queen Mother had invited us all 3 to go to her in the evening to hear Barjansky play but wrote later to put us off & we had a quiet evening at home with only some of the Embassy staff to dinner. | |
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