King Victor Emanuel III today paid a fifteen-minute visit to Bari where he inaugurated the Palestine Pavilion at the Levant Fair now taking place there.
The King evinced the greatest interest in Palestine affairs, asking numerous questions about the development of agriculture and the growth of Jewish immigration in Palestine.
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