The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-04-22
Senator in Rome Asserts
War Is Immi-
nent
A BIG ARMY
IS ON BORDER
The Government Takes Over
the Big Liners at
Genoa

Rome, April 22.-~Austrla answer u
the Italian demands has been hurried
massing of additional troops on thu
frontier of Italy, according to unofficial
reports. 1t is understood that the time
limit set by Italy for satisfactory an
swer expired Tuesday and yesterday
there were many indications that Aus
tria's tacit defiance had grown intoler-
able and that the Italian government is
about to appeal to arms.
Senator Carafa declared yesterday that
the negotiations between Italy and Aus
tria We're at complete standstill and
that he regarded a complete rupture be-
tween the two countries as imminent.
The Austrian ambassador has already
sent his family to Innsbruck and praeti-
cally all the embassy staff is on leave
of absence. 1t is reported that the Aus
trian amba ssador to the Holy See, Prince
Schonburg- Hartenstein, will anticipate
his vacation and leave Rome immediate
ly.
According to reliable information all
arrangements have been made for the
care of German and Austrian archives.
The German ambassador was said to
have transferred to his brother his villa.
which would be subject to sequestration
in the event of war, but he has issued
a denial of this. Other representatives
OF the Germanic states in Rome are said
to be secretly preparing their depar
ture.
Italian preparations also point to the
verge of war. The government has re-
- -. Of ,en atcltt
Americans who had booked sailings on
Tuesday from Genoa were seriously in
convenenced because the Italian liners
scheduled for American were taken over
by the government without notice. Ger
tain lines have suspended sailings and
overseas traffic will probably be serious
ly interfered with temporarily.
The public mind is fully prepared for
war, and while it is impossible to learn
definitely what stands between the gov
eminent and the supreme resort TO arms,
II is known that Italy's entry in the
field, is near, for it is impossible with
national self-respect to refrain much
longer.
Italy has asked the Blue Cross, vol
untary British organization that cares
for wounded horses. whether it would
be prepared to establish on the pininsula
the systems of veterinary hospitals such
as il now maintains in France.
Final details of organization are be-
ing carried out throughout the military
establishment in the expectation that
Austria will openly refuse to make ter
ritorial concessions satisfactory TO Italy.
In addition to quartering large con
tingents of troops at Monfalcone, Ronehi
and Sagrado, on the Italian frontier, the
Austrians are reported to have fortified
the whole line of the Isonzo river with
and artillery supports.
The Messagero SAYS that Michael de
Giers, the new Russian ambassador to
Italy, has delayed his departure from
petrograd in order to be in a position
TO reach complete agreement with the :
government at Rome with regard not
only TO Italy's intervention but also TO
her position at the conclusion of peace. d
The newspaper adds that italy and Ru-
mania have practically reached an agree
ment and that Italy's neutrality has !
about outlived its usefulness.
1--WE would be blind still TO hope for q
good result from the Vienna CONVEX v
'atons.- SAYS The Messagero. This has !
,cen a dilstory game because both coun- .
ries found it convenient to postpone the n
a
Greece Is endeayoIing TO arrive at A {
ettled policy. A representative of King >
Constantine Is en- route 10 Vienna and i
berlin. probably On political mission. Il
Though il j. known that King Constan. Il
inc. who j. brother in-lsw Of the Ger
nan emperor. has steadfastlv set HE r
ace against Greece's participation in the j