Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17
ITALY'S WAR IN TRIP0LI
AND AFFAIRS IN TURKEY

tention OF imposing its Will upon the
responsible government.
1taly's action in Tripoli was received
with bad humor in Berlin. and this
fact proves in certain measure trio
information given Signor Giol!tti. Tho
German press has INDUCED I'm a torrent
of abuse against Italy and even threat
ened TO chase her ont (sicl of the triple
alliance" Doubtless Italy .:Ss.id ne glad
OF the chasing, FOR she must feel since
the meeting at Algeciras the mockery 90
the alliance for her II Mattino OF Naples
indeed declares that the triple alliance
has no longer any reason To exist far
as Italy is concerned. The Giornale
d Italia tor2an of Signor Sonnnol con-
tains an article which has created the
greatest impression in the political ard
diplomatic circles of Rome. The article
attacks the triple alliance and announces
with i'll concealed JOY the expiration II
the treaty in 1872.
Sienor Sonnino. the eX-president OF the
council of ministers. it may be recalled,
was one of the most enthusiastic parti-
sans OF the triple alliance.
all parties in Italy, ii should be added
approved the expedition to Tripoli except
the socialists. This party is divided The
socialists OF the south regard Tripon
solution OF the problem of emigration.
They believe thar the working CLASSES.
which are obliged to seek their bread ~
South America and the United State,
will find bread and independence i'm Iris.
oil.
The southern socialists consider Trfp-
oil as prolongation OF Sicily. Tbs
Cyrenaic. they believe will offer To
the proletariat of the south land which
promises remuneration. Ii is true the
land is arid and by no means so arabic
as the fecund soil OF Sicily.
Sisnor G.olitti. replying to the criticism
by an influential British journal of Italy's
expedition. wrote: The
Giolitti's reasons for the conflict arc
Response. many, IT, Turkey has never
cessity of Italy's economical expansion
and the loyalty of her intentions. II was
only necessary to cast a glance at a map
of the Mediterranean to see from an eth
nical point that the TripoItan territory
must fall under the domination of Italy
and. above all, of Sicily. History shows
that Tripol was Greek when Sicily
was Greek and Roman when Sicily was
Roman. Ii was thus natural that "A
movement of expansion should proceed
from Italy" Signor GioIit,i cited at
length the vexations to which Italians
had been subjected in Tripol and
that Italy was obliged TO take I'D arms
TO defend her honor and avenge her in
juries.
Foreign as we'll Italian pa cifists had
declared themselves as violent and Inn
piacable critics OF ltaly's expedition TO
lrlpoll- NJ. Stead. Frederic Passv and
Cobalt were furious against Italy The
foreign pacitists reproach Italians WIFI
what they are pleased to term an '-odious
ATTACK upon constitutional nation"
tmeaninS Turkey. and finally they de-
clare they will not 20 to Rome in the
spring OF 1872 TO attend the peace con-
gress.
NJ. de la Fontaine. pacifist. writes that
| their position would be grotesque when
| the Marquis di San Guliano member
OF the interparliamentary peace confer
ence, should rise to wish the members
welcome after the ultimatum to Turkey.
| signed by him. NJ. de IA Fontaine would
| not discuss lays pretensions to civilize
| the Tripolitan and Cyrenaic areas. Italy,
I which had not Yet civilized the Calabra
and which leaves to rot in misery Sar-
| DINA, Sicily and other regions of the
peninsula. NJ. de la Fontaine blames only
| the means employed, the unjustifiab Bile
| appeal to arms against feeble and I'M
| armed nation: the unmindfuness of
signature given twice at The Hague in
1889 and 1907 1t was that which was
| shocking al one period and which should
be blamed everywhere, and above all in
Italy
4 NJ. de Gubernats replied to NJ. de Ia
Fontaine, i'm substance, as follows:
Neither NJ de la Fontane nor NJ de
| Gubernatis could tell by what force ma
| jeure Italy was drawn along and obliged
| to abandon her habtual calm. and create
| i'm Europe, i'm spite of herself, a state OF
war. Northern Africa was never a nation:
the empire of the orient assumed the adj
| mnistration. but as little by little it
weakened ii was abandoned to its misery.
! Replaced by the Ottoman empire il was
| by right of usurpation that Turkey be-
| came the master and made il little by
4 little savage waste.
Europe decided to put an end to that
state of savagery and commenced to mix
up with the affairs OF
SURPRISING northern Africa 1t was
savaperv not Italy which created the
So'oScAy' m Intervention Of
France, Spain and England on the Afri-
| can shores of the Mediterranean (And
you Belsians, what have you done on
| the Kongo?) Italy had not raised any
pretension until now to the civilization or
Africa because in her first fifty years OF
unity. liberty and independence she was
obliged to devote herself TO her interior