Wednesday - Following the resignation presented to the King the 21 October by the Prime Minister avv. Giuseppe Zanardelli who in Parliament no longer has the support of the majority, takes over the Hon. Giovanni Giolitti, who interimly assumes the dicastery of the Navy until the rear admiral Carlo Mirabello, designated to hold the office of minister, currently engaged in the Far East, will not have taken the oath and took possession of the office.
[Admiral Carlo Mirabello, the day 14 had received the news of his appointment by telegram and the following day he disembarked from the Vettor Pisani in Nagasaki (giving the command of the Oceanic Naval Force: temporarily to the captain of the vessel Roberto Calì, waiting for the arrival of the new designated commander, rear-admiral Francesco Grenet) to return by steamer to America in Italy]
