Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

ed the islands will be evacuated and trans
ferred to Turkey.
What are the coveted concessions? A
rairoau from Adalia. on the Mediterra-
mean, to run north, with mineral rights
within a certain distance. Now comes
England, who maintains that She holds
concession ian English company for a
rail from Smyrna-Aidin in the same
region. The Italian company is referred
to the English company with the object
of arranging their conflicting interests
The delay on Italy's part to evacuate the
islands is due to the negotiations touching
Adalia.
Meanwhile Italy has been in the throes
of violent discussion over the cost OF
the Tripolitan venture and on the ION
instant there was a crisis and the resig-
nation of the Giolitu cabinet
The famous quarter of an hour OF
Rabelais must fatally arrive, and II ar
rived. The receptions over the Trtpol-
tan have been great and the greatest OF
these the cost of the Italian conquest
In the commencement the government de-
ciared that the conquest OF the Tripolitai'
would be a military promenade and ali
operation blanche: that is, small loss OF
life This argument was maintained
down to the elections in November last
The new chamber elected. it was found
necessary to render an accounting.
1t was not only the socialist deputies
who attacked the cabinet but the ma
tionalists. On the 14th ultimo Sienor
Sonnino pronounced a violent accusation
against the minister of the treasurN.
During the electoral campaign Sisnor
Tedesco. with others, affirmed, with
documents in their hands. that all tn.
expenses in Libya had been regularly
paid and that there were no new taxes
TO levy nor loans to contract, Now. the
chamber was scarcely assembled when
Signor Tedesco avowed that the Libyan
expenses to December 81, 1918, exceeded
considerably miliiard'
\ little after royal DEGREES established
at intervals a series of new taxes reach
ing hundred millions. At the same time
the independent press confessed What
government awaited only "A favorable mo-
ment to emit the loan of a milliard. Tho
reverberation of these revelations through
out the country was immense, and the
situation of Signor Giolitti had been en-
danScred had it not been that his ad-
vcrsarics feared to assume the response
bility of the succession.
The 18th of February. nevertheless, sig
nor Sonnno was implacable. He de
nounced with vigor the articles of the
minister of the treasury, and he auaii'ied
as 'cinematogra phic his accountability.
He complained that parliament was paced
in a position by which control of the en-
penses was impossible. In concluding, ae
charged the minister with insincerity and
lacking the moral courage necessary 10
every government to contain certain APP
petites or demand of the country new
sacrifices.
These are interior questions which con-
Germ Italians. But in the course of the
discussion there were other questions
raised which interested foreign countries
In the autumn of 1911 Italian diplomats
In order to justify the Tripolitan enter
prise spread the rumor that Italy had
been forced to take the initiative in order
to anticipate other powers. To the
French they said that Germany WAS on
the point of occupying Tobruk: TO the
English that il was time to prevent
France from absorbing the Tripoitan, II
may be recalled that Il distinguished ltal-
ian parsonage in Paris communicated this
last note to the correspondent of the
Times which created no little indignation
in the press and public
In the Italian chamber the 18th of Feb
ruary d socialist deputy, NJ. l.abrioa-
said:
I'VE all know that Germany has PLAN
ned to attack England in Egypt and her
interest in the Tripolitan is clear. Ger
many should necessarily keep Tobruk in
view. Let us not forget the long nego-
tiations concerning the bay of Solum; let
us not forget that the English said Il few
years ago that to n French Bizerta we
should oppose German Tobruk.
AS a result of this singular speech in
the mouth of a socialist, Siguor Labriela
was excluded from his
Exclusion of party. On the other
hand, the Gazette de
A'do1AeA"' Cologne protested and
said that the information was false and
that the action of Germany before and
after the Libyian war could not have
been more loyal and more amicuble to-
ward Italy. Following that incident Sig
nor GraZiadei introduced an Interpolation
in the chamber.
Signor Luzzatti, speaking in the cham
Der concerning the cost Of the war i'll the
Tripolitan, looked at the question from =
national point of view. Sig. LuZzafti
commenced by recalling that German So
cialists and the English labor party were
not opposed to military expenses and the
efforts to pay for them, because they de-
sired to preserve from exterior peril The
race and the workmen of that race winch
represents the future of the nation ana oi
humanity
1t was not astonishing. according TO
Signor Luzzatti, that after the irip9n.a
war italy should pass through a diHlcuit
financial period. having been obliged COLI
currently to augment her military ana
civil expenses.
But the power of resistance of ltallah
finance was on the contrary, astonishing.
Signor Luzzatu praised the Italian taA,
PAYERS loyalty and the vitality they had
given to state finances. He criticised the
financial projects OF the government pue
Justified the Tripolitan war and the en-
penses incurred thereby.
Addressing himself to the socialists. he
declared that the war was lneNltahle De-
cause of the maintenance of their race.
When the nationalists applauded Signor
uuzzatti turned to them and said: i 90
tionaIists, who were not born when we
prepared for that war and treated with
France for Morocco and Trlpol1.
The war had cost a milllard-a milhard
borrowed from themselves, from their re-
serves, and which should be returned 10
the treasury by new taxes SlGnor
Luzzatti was opposed to recourse 10
loans and, turning again to the SOCIALISTS.
he urged them in the name OF labor I"
continued recourse to loans finally dis'
credited itself: commerce and industrE
decreased, wages diminished and lapoF
ceased 1T is thus" added Signor Luz
zatti, amid prolonged cheers, "socia! re-
forms are AS precious as national defense
and require a strong and honest budget
The discussion of the cost ot The ~.
poIitan enterprise continued from the i3'i
ultimo to the 10th instant when S4ghoi
(;iolittj and Signor Sonnino. who nave
for some time played the game OF shu't'c-
cocl, together Oh occasions when their re-
snectiye ministries found themselves IN
difficult impaSse, concluded that the
game was PLAYED, and Signor Giolitti ana
his cabinet resigned the 10th instant
dispatck dated Rome, March IL, an
that King Victor Emmanuel had
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