New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11

selected for high posts in the governmeh1-a'a
eyen In the directing forces themselves even q"
high as the Cabinet-at the eleventh hour taii'a
OF receiving the appointment they mad e1pected
owing to the opposition Of tho German govern
ment because they were known not 70 Dc iaYoi-
ably disposed toward Germany.
Germany controlled newspapers and orioed
certain number Of Italian journalists by diree'
q. d indirect methods, and thus enabled TO
nut forth matter that pleased Berlin, whether II
was to the advantage OF Italy or not The power
Of this machine SO great that 1t was impo'sl-
BILE to get bankers from France to enter into
connection with the German-Itaan banks in italy
owing to a secret compact made with Berlin py
the French bankers. The attempt Of one OF our
moro honest political men in Italy to have Amerl-
can capital brought in to compete with the Ger
mans in Italy failed miserably, and the political
machine almost succeeded in annihilating the mi
tiator Of this project. At a certain moment inc
Italian government tried to break the DONNA
ton Of the German machine on our steamship
companies by passing law which would nave
opened the field to purely national enterprises
Unbelievable it may seem, the German power
was sufficient to kill the bill, and the ministry
seeking to help Italy was obliged to resign, the
German machine having fought the measure most
bitterly The government succeeded in creating
independent steamship companies, but the fight
Of the German steamship trust waged against /.
was so fearful that it's efficiency had been re-
duced to almost nothing.
GERMANY'S FINANCES AT LENGTH BECOME
SUPREME.
zone OF the fundamental reasons for which
Giotti made the life insurance business a state
monopoly was to have in case of extreme need
several hundreds of millions at the governments
disposal, without being forced to beg them of Ger
many. In the last years small banks, which were
still lending money 20 those who had been refused
ly the German-ltalian banks and were in disfavor,
bought out thus making it almost impossible
for those who were not ready to kneel in front OF
Germany TO do any business
zone of the means through which Germany sue
ceeded in squeezing Italy was that of threatening
that if Rome did not surrender to Berlin Berlin
would let loose Vienna and would ensue. Ia
fact, Austria, with the complete support OF Ger
many, has always done as she pleased without
taking into any account the interests Of Italy
"The Pan Gernanic invasion did not respect at
all the fact that Italy was the ally Of Germany
and Austria. Our eastern provinces were invaded
By cheap literature stating that the greater Ger
many would include all the Italian provinces of
Austria and the provinces of Italy north of the
Adlge River
1.-THE region Of the Lake of Gsrds, aside from
some official sign giving evidence Of its being
still in italy completely Germanzed; even
the street signs in many places were in German.
Hotels, stores, etc, were all German. The Gus
toners were all Germans. Germans were the
proprietors, employees, walters, etc, all looking
like soldiers in civilian dress One enterprising
German succeeded in having a splendid castle
like villa built across one Of the military roads
leading 20 the frontier. After Italy joined the
Triple Alliance her very satisfactory commercial
treaty with France denounced, but Germany
and Austria failed to give to Italy sufficient
compensation in their commercial treaties.
"The greatest enemy that Italy has had to con-
tend against in her colonies the Red Sea has
been her ally, Germany, first and Austria after
ward. In 1902 Italy, in order to protect her in
terests in the Mediterranean, made accord
with England, France and Spain for Tripoli. After
long and difficult negotiations the consent of Ger