Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-01
ITALY'S EXPERIENCES IN REAL ESTATE.


 IN REAL ESTATE.
 Turkey in much more than a cen tury has not endeared itself to the rest of the civilized world. Its con duct on the other hand has periodical ly excited disgust and horror. For a long time it has had no valid excuse for existence. It has not been regarded as member of the family of na- tions but as a buffer to soften the jars in the family. r
 Yet. notwithstanding the national unworthiness of Turkey the manner in which Italy has gone about acquir- ing Turkish territory whose integrity has been guaranteed by the powers, naturally does not meet approval The seizure of Tripoli twenty-four hours after the sending of an ultimatum and immediately after receiving a concil- iatory reply. was thing that we sup posed could not happen after the es- tabHshment of amenities at The Hague a- -5Ezl
 The pretended cause of the trouble is the alleged ill-treatment by the Turkish government of Italian citiz- ems, resident in Tripoli and discrim- ination against Italian commerce. I, such grievance actually existed, Italy appears to have made no attempt to secure redress of it by the usual methods but entered upon a course which would either provoke a bloody war or effect an unresisted robbery.
 Turkey, of course, will not be able to afford any protection to her mari time towns but if the war should spread over the land on the north shore of the Mediterranean rather on the south shore, she may give a good account of herself unless her military strength and genius have greatly deteriorated since the com, paratively recent days of Plevna
 But, whether the trouble will end with the acquiescenoe of the Turks or whetker it shall grow into a war which will embroiI all Europe is a matter of conjecture. Europe is in rammable
 This is not the first of Italy's terri torial extension schemes, the last of which ended dfsastrously. It was undertaken in 1870 with the seizure of several hundred miles of the Red Sea littoral about Massowah. Soon, Italian sncroaehments upon Abyssinia whose boundaries were rather indef- mite brought the Italians into collision with Menelek whose sturdiness as a fighter was not suspected. None but the French officers who had trained his army knew how well it was equip. ped and to what a degree of modern ity it had been brought Menelek had feared that some time he would have trouble with his land-hungry neighbors and he had been getting ready for it.
 In order to remove the friction which had followed the encroach- ments of the Italians, they proposed the treaty Of Uchan. It was not agreed to by the negus who discovered that it meant one thing in the Italian Ian guage and another in the Amharic.
 The rejection Of the treaty did not worry the Italians. It furnished { pretext for engaging in military activ- 
 jties for which it had been preparing and thus came about the tragedy of Adowa. The defeat of the Italian army. practically the entire military strength of the kingdom was a slaugh- ter Ii approached snnihilatios.
 When the news of Adowa reached Home. there was such mourning as had not moved the Eternal City since Tbrasymene and Canna when' 1t IS said. a member of every houSeloi1 in Rome had fallen before Hannibal s noguificent cavalry. And by the way