The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-13
leak IN TRIPLE
/ ALLIANCE FEARED
|yes in Mediterranean by
hg1and and France Change
Italy's Position.
ERMAN FURY AROUSED
Id of a Bismarck to Hold
|Bunde" Together Was
| Never More Pressing.
| Cable 20 The Tribune.

|sl Cable 20 The Tribune.
IRLIN. Oct. l2.--It is not domes-
Horries alone which have depressed
minds of the Germans. Their for
troubles are just rs serious, es-
ally since the visit Of the French
mier Poincare to ST. Petersburg.
fate of the triple alliance, on
Is eermany's political power and
,snce abroad is based. hangs in the
NEE, a fact which was brought
uineptly forward by telegram
Berlin 10 the government
lAful mouthplece, the Frankturter
rng.
bs telegram contained violent at
On the comments made in the
peA press on Italy's position in the
3i,erranean, No one doubts what
an attack means. 1t is the impe-
government itself defending It's for
policy, and the controversy it has
opened is exceedingly interesting
constitutes a strange chapter in the
q of Germauy's foreign relations.
the most threatening manner eY-
sbing seems TO conspire against Ger
IN. England has withdrawn con-
brsble part OF her powerful Medl-
Iauean squadron and transferred 1t
be North sea, TO have it convenient
hear the German coasts, and stimuli
|eollsly France has increased her
b in the Mediterranean In
manner not to be misunder-
"a. What England Of her own free
D gives up in the Mediterranean is
n Frances hands and the whole
|lnQement is carried out with the
knowledge and approval of the
/bian government. which set its Of
al stamp on it during Sasonoff's re-
q viEit to England and France.
1y's New Position.
Eblt two French government or
la Le Temps and Journal Dcs De-
b have pointed out. and which has
psed Germany's fury, is Italy's po-
n in view OF this new political de-
pmsnt. With q sympathetic glance
ltaly's exhausted finances and half
n out navy the French government
said to Italy: "Of course we
1F that you are in the triple ali
y with Germany and Austria, and
ls something we cannot forbid;
\ ne do hope you will understand
IN the Mediterranean neither Ger
~ n0r Austria can be any help to
while the friendship Of England
france would be invaluable to you,
not least so perhaps, because Rus
With her enormous influence in the
'nn peninsula is der Dritte IN
4ds.' Therefore, we leave it to
rselyes to decide if it is worth while
'airlng in an alliance which can
ref be any advantage to you-'
eese, OF course, are not the words,
u IS the sense Of the articles in the
9ch press and one must admit that
french government had made it so
n, that Bismarck himself could not
done better. The cynicism with
sn the truth has been made clear
!laly even seems unnecessarily brutal
None easily understands that it has
PED q sensation in Berlin which is
used to such unmistakably threat.
ng language.
ly Change Alliance.
.ne gist Of the situation is that the
vsI mas come IN the minds Of the
4en, when Italy must understand
1er interests are no longer con-
~ WITH Germany What does Ger
stand for in the mediterranean
als not man Of war there to fire
egle shot on 1taly's behalf, and If
european coDflagration comes
nm hungary will have her hands
A.sending to her own affairs, aside
the indisputable fact that Aus
leve of Italy is not worth
o. sslt. In other words: What
taese Italians must be, that they
.Sasy throw themselves into the
u aerInany and Austria Hungary
Oh making common cause with
Esc, England and Russia.
n. 'eply Of the German government
~ french arguments is singularly
sal,, ine Frunkfurtor Zeitung
a says that the two French pa
"a. aeem 10 have forgotten that
ia aiso has land frontier It
ue Trficult TO find less weighty
.cHvat,. Tor Germany too. has Gland
',ers" not only towards west but
|.fianvs" v"aras the east, and, after all,
I'd II cVe nave precious little reason to
IN germany beats the French arm
"a Nv we vosges, when at the snme
a hIe h entire Italian navy is annihi~
lhn the French in tho Mediter.
bismarck Needed.
|Ies' not not too much to say that the
sSa. 'uat has led up to aud resulted
|srn Fl Fsaediterranean arrangement be-
In f;Shgland aud France with Russia
m uird 1d party to the agreement, is
|1ers .ne most interesting events in
Ha., political history. In the time
- tla'ck, tla csks, Germans heard much
/ Ihers T. Isolation Of England" but
Fb;ohe any power in the world to-
'kland Is not isolated it is surely
NV a;on while Germany stands prac-
|Essss fs created the triple alliance
a, ueeffmmRny, Austria Hungary and
<InstI i. ~ ai,lance which seemed 10 be
'hk i 'do INC laws of nature, but in Bis
lroIo annds It might have become
sade Jh"Sue Of n drama. Later other
e replaced his, hands that