The enemy's official bulletins stated that the bombing of Venice, on the night on the 25 and the following day, was carried out by Austrian airplanes in retaliation, having previously our airmen bombed Trieste. The statement is false in substance and equivocal in form.
The truth is that in the afternoon of the current 24 the seaplanes of our Marina bombed, according to the uses of war, the establishments of Muggia and Piran used for the preparation of war material, but not the city of Trieste which is at least four kilometers from the nearest of the two bombed locations.
The Austrian planes instead threw bombs on the buildings of the center of Venice and even on the Piazzetta of San Marco, damaging a church and other buildings, to which nobody could ever attribute a military character, and thus offending, beyond the most elementary norms of humanity, the supreme reasons of art.
