Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-15
After Tripoli
 What is Next?


 BERLIN, Nov. 3.-"After Tripoli, what next?' is the question which, ac- eording to despatches from Swiss cor respondents of the German papers, is agitating the Swiss press and public.
 Italys seizure of Tripoi combined with the well-known aspirations of the Italian nationlists to unite the Italian speaking portions of. Switzer land with the Roman kingdom is causing, say these despatches, much discussion of the possibility that the little mountain republic may be iuture object of the aggression of it's southern neighbor.
 Since the outbreak of the TTipoli- tan war various swiss papers have
 ointed out the significance for Swift zerland of this unexpected launching Of hostilities and the seizure of q coveted province and have concluded rom 1t the necessityof neglecting no steps to maintain at the highest pos sible efficiency the defenses and hghting power Of the country.
 The part of Switzerland on which 1t is feared that ltaly's eye may be
  Italian side Of the Alps. known to thousands of tourists who have tray eled over the St. Gothard railroad or visited the Italian lakes. It's area IS LOSS square miles and it's popula- tion nearly I50.00O practically all of them italian speaking. Like the southern part of the canton of Valois and the Engadine region Of eastern Switzerland, it is marked upon the maps and colOred postcards of the italian Irredetists (agitators for a united Italian empirel as one of the regions ultimately 10 be joined to Italy, but what has focused attention particularly on the Ticino is the vex- ation manifested in certain Italian quarters at the strong Swiss fortit- cations of the St Gothard pass whlch dominate the canton.
 A series Of articles on the import ance of these fortifications by an Itai- ian general has recently appeared in the Corriere della Sera of Milan but Italian criticisms of the Swiss mis- trust have rather increased than di- unfinished the zeal with which the fort ifications are being pressed.
 In a recent article pr. J. Schollen- berger, professor Of political science at the University of Zurich main- lains that Switzerland can expect lit- tle support from France and none from Italy, of the neutrality and in tegrity of Swiss territory. A pos I sibIe combination in the minds of | the Swiss pessimists is an Italian Oc- cupation of the Ticino, for which i France would be compensated by the rsant Of Geneva, Q town thoroughly French in language and sympathies. ! NUt only Switzerland, but also Aus ' tro-Hungary. Italy's ally is thinking ! of the possibilities of Italian aggres' | Siea Since Gen. Conrad has been at | the head Of She Austrian General stah | the fortifcdtion of the mountain val 1 leys of the TyrOl along the Italian frontier has been carried on with un- 1 eeasiug energy until now. every con meeting pass and valley between the | two countries is closed by powerful ! iortihcauons
 Now attention has been turned tc { the Stilfser Joch, a well known AZ l zine pass, situated at the junction of | the frontiers of Austria, Italy and | Switzerland. over this d fine car riage road leads from italy into Aus l tria. The pass has hitherto been
 considered amply defelded by the
 tact that tae -as:te passes fer a dis tance of about eight miles across narrow point of neutral Swiss ter | ritory but since the construction o
 a fortified camp by Italy at the foo
 of Monte UmbTail and a fort upoT
 Monte Opa, both near the Italian cut
 of the pass, aud the extension of th'
 Italian railroad to BormiO, a strons | agitation has started for defensive
 measures on the Austrian side.
 Gtalys activity on this corner O
 her frontier Is shown by the fact tina
 mountain climbers are Ro longer al ! lowed to ascend Monte or Pig Um
 brail. one of the we'll known Alpin ] ascents.
 ] The wine makers on the Rhine an' D Moselie have just gathered thei Q grapes with unusual demopstraticn - of satisfaction with the years croI E When the. church bells tOlled in hur Q dreds of villages to announce th
 beginning of the grape picking the
 awakened memories of the good ol
 days of some ten years or more bac
 before the vineyards were damage
 by phylloXera. worms and other pests i. for this year. the hot weather and th , long ciOudless days were death to th il insects, but caused the vines to bea n grapes of sweetness almost unpara . led
 And the quauity harvested va
 somewhat more than half-crop, whic
 is regarded as a very good result
 view of the continued failures of T
 cent years. Owing to these failure V grapes and grape juice are bringin :, extraordinarily high prices nov t The best grapes arc bringing as muc |. as 45 cents per pound, and grap e juice for winemaking Is sold at frOl sl 70 cents to one dollar a gallon. Th p best juice. at Bingen. brought s2.45 ' salfon. These are reported to be q
 highest prices ever known.
 h German makers of sas-engines af t. chemists have been for several yea n working on the problem of gasifyii 'n peat for use in gas engines. The s
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