The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-05-27
THE A. B. c. Of
ITA[YS CAUSE
She Hopes To Change Status OF
Mediterranean TO ThatOf
Italian Lake
WHAT "IRREDENTISM" MEANS

WASHINGTON, ID. C., May H.
Austria Hungary's reason for reject
ing the demands OF Italy Is said to be
her view that It would have resulted
In an effective CheCkmating OF both
her commercial and her political In
terests ON the AdratlC ana the Med
iterranenn almost ~ thoroughly as
were her Aegean ambitions destroyed
following the successful struggle Of the
Balkan States with Turkey and the es-
tablishment OF Il Greater SeryiA,' says
bulletin issued today by the National
Geographic Society which discusses
the Italian demands ns reported from
Rome "Theso demands the Dual
Monarchy contended, were planned to
give Italy strategic control, naval and
commercial, Of the Adriatlc and also
that their acceptance by Vienna would
have struck a vital blow at the Mon
archy's future
Asked for Trent
As minimum concessions Italy ask
ed after the CessiOn Of the province Of
Trent In the Austrian Tyrol the ces
sion II Eastern Friuell, east VI Nehre
sina the formation Of Il state entirely
independent Of Austria ont Of the ter
rltdrips Triest aud lstria cesslon e
Italy Of the dominant island off tn,
the lower Dnlmntian coast CurLOla
Lissa, Lcsina, Brnzza, and Maleda
the abandonment Of Austrian Interests
IN Albania, aud Austrian acknowledge
Of Italian sovereignty over the Alban
/ ian port and great land-locked bay, Ay
9 Iona These concessions would hay,
+ changed the status " the Medlterran
can from that Of on AustrO- ltnlial
b lake to that Of an Italian lake.
such parts Of the Dual Monarchy
coast line AS Italy would have left Il
! Its undisputed possession Is terrltur
70 that SerylA hopes 10 get some day !
! the course OF her natural expansion
To meet the minimum demands ey
pressed by Rome Austria must hny
surrendered her greatest seapor
Trlest. the New York Of southern FL
rope, together with her principal nayl
q base, Pola, at the apex Of lstria, upO
whose development the Dual Monarch
IT has invested many millions Of dollar
and must have abandoned all hope {
N the strategic value Of the Dalmatia
d coast with the Cession to Italy Of II
2 large Islands that screen 1t. Deprive
of her Adriatic seacoast, her only on
= let tu free water, Austria HungaI
q felt that she would finally sink TO n
Importance Of Il portless, land-bOunde
Seryia.
III Irredentism Defined
BESIDES ltaly's rlyairy with Austri
for leadership upon the Medlterranea
irredentism' played a strong part
the determination Of her demands I
redentism IL the desire of various II
tions to bring within their boundari
contiguous areas Inhabited by the sal
race. speaking the same language al
filled with the same ideals lrredel
ism Is an enthusiasm widely spread
Europe All enthusiasm that has M
/ cceded IN greatly complicating the
sues of the present war. Thus, q
Germans claim that the Baltic prov
ces are German, and must be reunit
to their fatherland; Roumania, wi
still more reason, holds Transylvar
and BukOvlna as 'un-redeemed H.
mania, and this prevents her fr,
reaching an understanding with
Il tNnEft,uttlY n..aRlu unA INnFa
guyina are 'unrrdeemed lands TO \
via, while Russia sees In German
Polish provinces SlayOnlc lands ln N
tonic bondage
Italian irredentism affects not u
Austria, but, also, France The Frer
paid themselves for their valuable
To ltalys cause VI unity on the n
VI SolferlnO, by euriching themsel
with Savoy aud Nice Thus, ltal
lrredentism looks to lands and 60
trymcn lost 10 France ~ well as
Austria. The Trent province Of Ty
was demanded NJ Austria by the i
lans solely on the basis ot unredeeu
Italian land this land had been lta
aud II was peopled by Italians '
have clung to their mother-tonl
Likewise, the coastlands around
Gulf Of Triest aud around the Istr
peninsula are largely inhabited by |
ian speaking people, though some
this territory hus been In Austl
possession for centuries. Below Flu
the Russian constland IN peopled ain
exclusively by SlavOnic races. w
Flume, irredeutism or the moven
to deliver fellow countrymen from
rule NJ strange people. WAS the II
spring ~ Italian action. Beyond FL
4 political and commercial riyalries
lated the Italian course"