First and foremost, of course, was Luigi Barzini, without whom the assemblage would have been quite incomplete, as he is probably the most popular of press writers in the world to-day. In Italy, in fact, he is a sort of institution, and it is certainly no exaggeration to state that he is as well-known by sight as the King or General Cadorna. Then there were Benedetti, Baccio Bacci, Fraccaroli, Gino Piva, Giovanni Miceli, and Aldo Molinari, the black and white artist and photographer, to cite only a few names in the brilliant attroupement of Italian journalistic talent. The French Press had six representatives: the _Temps_, Jean Carrère, one of the best known and most popular of foreign correspondents, who speaks Italian like his mother tongue; the _Petit Parisien_, Serge Basset; the _Echo de Paris_, Jules Rateau; the _Journal_, Georges Prade; the _Illustration_, Robert Vaucher; and the _Petit Marseillais_, Bauderesque. As genial and typically French a crew as one could meet anywhere. The English Press was also well to the fore. _The Times_, as the most powerful of British journals on the continent, was appropriately represented by a giant in stature, W. Kidston McClure, as amiable and erudite a gentleman as ever stood six feet eight inches upright in his socks, and who, by reason of his great height, raised _The Times_ a head and shoulders above the rest of us. W. T. Massey was the _Daily Telegraph_, a good and solid representative of the older type of modern journalism; J. M. N. Jeffries the _Daily Mail_ young man, a slender stripling with brains, and bubbling over with a sort of languid interest in his work, but who, in his immaculate grey flannels and irreproachable ties, somehow gave the impression of just going on or coming off the river rather than starting on a warlike expedition; Martin Donohoe, the _Daily Chronicle_, the very antithesis of Jeffries, burly and energetic, and in every way a typical representative of Radical journalism, which was further represented by Ernest Smith of the _Daily News_. Gino Calza Bedolo, one of the youngest and most talented of rising Italian journalists was “lent” to the _Morning Post_ for this occasion by his paper, the _Giornale d’Italia_, and a very able and spirited representative did he prove, as the readers of the _Morning Post_ must have found. And lastly, the _Illustrated London News_, by your humble servant, sole representative of English pictorial journalism with the Italian Army in the Field. There were no Americans, as with the somewhat curious exception of the two Swiss, only the allied nations were admitted. I may add that everyone had to wear a white band round his coat sleeve bearing the name of the paper he represented.