The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-26
THE REAL MOTIVES BACK OF ITALY'S DESIRE
 TO ANNEX TRIPOL]
(By Henry Wood, United Press Cor

(By Henry Wood, United Press Cor respondent at Rome.)
 Rome, Dec. 26-The real reasons and motives back of >Italy's desire to an- mex Tripoli and Cyrenaica, the two Turkish provinces lying on the north ern coast of Africa and immediately to the south of Italy, were not made fully public at the time the actual occupation of the territory took place. In a general way they may be sum- med up as follows:
 1st-Ita1y's desire. to start a system of the other great European nations.
 2nd-The necessity of Italy's finding some outlets for it's excess population where it could still have control over it's millions of emigrants after they had left their native shores.
 3rd-The desirability of having a place for the investment Of Italian capital where it would still be under the protection and fostering influence of the Italian government.
 The first of these motives was one of long standing in Italy. When Italy in 1861 finally succeeded i1 becoming g United Kingdom, after a bitter and disheartening struggle for fifty years, it was at once seized with a desire to rank with the other great but old CT nations of Europe This led to the formation of the Triple Alliance with 1GIuIdHy C1IlQ AQSlIld, WulCu ever since has necessitated the mainten- ance of one of the larger armies and navies of Europe. and also the desire to emulate those other European countries in a system of colonial ex- pansion.
 securing from the European powers permission to assume military pro- tectorate over Tupis, which is a1- most in sight of Sicily and therefore most accessible and convenient for colonial development. France, how- over Tunis, and Italy was forced to be content with an effort to establish a colony in Eritrea lying along the Red Sea and adjacent to Abyssinia.
 The colony of Eritrea, however, al- though still under the dominion of native tribes were only subdued after heavy Italian losses and the colony failed to reply in a commercial and industrial way for the lives and money which Italy had spent in ac- quiring it. AS a consequence Italy was forced to look elsewhere for colony.
 The second motive that inspired Italy to acquire .Tripoli and Cyrenaica was to solve an old problem that still confronts most of the European na- tions. Italy itself will only support population of about 35,00O,o00 people. AS a result there is yearly excess of about 100000 Italians who must emigrate. These in the past have gone largely to North and South America. Tn South America they have formed large and prosperous colonies, but always colonies of which the coun- try wherein they were formed reaped the benefits. Naturally, therefore Italy desired to find a colonial terri tory to which the tide of this emigra- tion could be directed, where the mother country could still have con- trol over her subjects and to reap some of. the profits of the wealth which they would produce.
 In the third place, Italian capital ists within the past few years have shown a decided tendency to invest money outside of Italy, especially in countries where there were great pos- abilities of development. Tripoli was one of the countries thus favored but it soon became apparent that it would be very desirable for Italian capital if the country in which it was fn- vested could be under the control and influence of the mother country Be- cause, therefore, of the capital al- ready invested there by Italian finan- ciers, and because still other Italian capital which was seeking investment in other countries could be turned in- to Tripoli, if the Italian government Italy felt that in justice to it's wealthy field and opportunity for financial de- of the two Turkish provinces of Trj- pO1i and CVrpnaica