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and in Dover. Such italian expansion
would in fact throttle the naval and the
commercial future OF the Hapsburss. IL
Austria has been willing to risk a world
war to protect her Bosnian and Croatian
provinces she could hardly accept Italian
sovereignty on the Albanian coast will
ingly.
Thus in the wider sense italian occu-
patton OF Avlona Ia n step. n long step,
toward alliance with the enemies Of Aus
tria and Germany. an alliance which II
~ has not Immediate value In still certain
to exercise an influence later. The Italian
voice In any European areopagus here
after Is likely to be raised for Anglo
French Russian rather than Austro- Ger
man views.
More than this, the prospect OF Austro-
German victory hereafter might force
Italy to join in the present war. For
IL II be conceivable that victorious Ger
many and Austria would forgive the
desertion OF August. II is unthlnkable
that they would permanently permit Italy
10 profit at their expense and bring home
the greatest naval prize tho Mediterranean
Powers can now desire.
Italy still desires the Trentno and
means to have II, but she can get It only
at Austrias expense. She longs for
Trieste, and this too Is Hapsbsrg. She
has taken Avlona; her influence In AL
bania. henceforth. must mount In her
own peninsula she has thousands OF
Albanian subjects Tho great Crispi was
OF Albanian descent Hereafter her voice
will Prevail at first perhaps only about
Avlona. but later at Durazzo. at Scutari.
In Berat. All this means Austro-1talian
rivalry, Jealousy. quarrelling. II must
also mean growing Franco Italian friend
ship.
At the outset Of the war Austria and
-
Algeria. Tunis. Corsica, Savoy. Nice for
her adherence to the Triple Alliance. But
all these tempting offers failed to enlist
Italy First. because Anglo-French fleets
were bound to control tho Mediterranean.
and Austria and Germany couA offer no
protection against them. But beyond this.
the sympathy OF Italy was with France
and England. not Austria and Germany.
and in the twentieth as the nineteenth
century the enemy OF Italy remained
Austria.
For the future. then. italian influence
seems bound TO be exerted against Aus
tria. Yet there are certain perils that
will have TO be met When Greece occu-
pied Northern Epirus In 1912 Italian op-
position was as violent as was Austrian
protest against Servisn and Mont<negrin
operations about Scutari and Durazzo.
Then Italy maintained that Greece was.
I'm fact. an ally ~ the Triple Entente a
friend OF the opponents OF Italy.
! ItsIy's Course In Doubt.
Thus. despite French effort Greece was
compelled to surrender districts Greek IN
population along the Adriatic from Corfu
to Chlmara and inland about Argyrocas-
tro, Delvlno and Korltza. These. II is to
he presumed. she Is now reoccupying
What remains to he seen is whether italy
will now acquiesce or insist on a SEQ nd
evacuation OF Epirus.
In the same way Servla and Monte
negro plan TO annex Dalmatia. as we'll
Bosnia. Herzegovina, Croatia and
Slavonia. But Dalmatia Is Italian Irrc-
denta Ragusa, Spslatro, cara are an
Client Venetian lands the islands of the
east coast are Italian by name at least
SO Italy Is likely to oppose Sav advance
along the Adrlatic as she did Greek. In
deed. in all this district the Slav Ia the
real rival OF italy and Is slowly pushing
the Italians out OF the coast cities. Slay
ambitions are sure to have Russian sup
port; and differences between Italy and
Russia are only Less likely than between
Italy and Austria.
Yet al the moment the italian occupa-
ton of Avlonh Is Enthusiastically a stAJ
toward ClosSr relations between Italy and
the enemies OF Germany and Austria. In
the same fashion Italian and Greek terri.
torlal expansion VIII have potent Infu.
ence In Ruman.a. which has lost prov.
inces" claiming her attention. almost com.
polling her Intervention. This interven.
ton too would necessarily he agains,
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