The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-05-27
ITALY FORMALLY DE.
CLAREs WAR ON AUSTRIA.


making a total of nine nations at
war against the Tuetons
When war first broke out,
Italy was member Of the Ger
man. Austrian-ltalian alliance, but
layed down ON her allies and said
she preferred TO remain neutral
| Ii now develops that she believes
she can profit financially by
joining her alliance enemies, and
thus casts her lot Her entrance
Into the conflict will carry the
weight of 100000 more soldiers
to the English allies.
At least there is no whining
subterfuge about ltaly's reasons
for entering the war The coun-
tries which are now bloodying
their own and each others es'
cutche0ns set up some Justlfica'
ton founded on claim of nation
al existence, the UNFOLDING OF
treaties or the spread of certain
kultures.
But Italy claims none of these
TO establish her right to fight.
One of her leading newspapers,
published in Rome, gives TO the
people and TO the outside world
the following reasons why she
should cross her borders with
bayoneis. Says this paper, the
Idea Nazionale"
Italy desires war!
First - In order Ia obtain
Trent, Trieste and Dalmatia. The
country desires IT, A nation
. which has the opportunity TO free
its land ought TO do so as mat
ter of imperative necessity.
Second - We desire war N
order to conquer for ourselves a
) good strategic frontier IN III,
: north and east in places of the
threatening frontier which We
now have. When nation ear
assure the protection of It's do
main it ought 10 do 50, otherwise
1T will amount TO less in It's ia
ture. Ii is a necessary duty.
Third desire war be
cause in the Adriaiie, the Balkan
Peninsula, the Mediterranean an,
Asia, Italy should have all the IN
terests which are possible for hel
70 have today, and without whlcl
: her political, economic and mora
pOwer would diminish in proper
Ition 10 the augmentation of tina
, LOT others. Ii we would be grea
. power we must except certain ob
Legations one OF them Is war, II
order to keep US a great power
III we do not want 10 be grea
power any longer, We deliberate
! ly and vilely betray ourselves"
Ii the Idea NaziOnale" RI
, fleets the general sentiment o
the country, then Italy is frankl.
I, Invading IN" for what she cal
get out of the conflict, and sh
has the courage of her frank
Iness.
Italy's claim 20 Dalmatia
, based upon no solid reason n
, lspito OF generous enthusiasm
/, from the people. There is, o
/. course, a sentimental excuse Il
. claiming Trieste.
Dalmatia is on the eastern sboI
of the Adriatie, opposite Venice
: For Italy TO hold Dalmatia an
! Trieste would cut Hungary an
! Austria entirely away from tn
/ sea. Austria 5 worst enemle
! would not insist that AuStri
. SHOULD have no sea port. Tn
Z Austro-Hungarian empire nun
, bers over 500O0,000 people, an
! TO cut off 50,0O0,0O0 people ava
! from the sea would be TO chok
/ them TO death.
/ Venice once exercised sOveI
/. eignty over the Dalmatian coas
: but even then Hungary had a
Z legress TO the sea. In those day
, the Hapsburgs were at the hea
! of the German-speaking state
! and kingdoms and the Germa
/ empire held much Of NOrther
/ Italy and had many ports lynn
5 on the Mediterranean.
3 Examination of the map O
3 Europe every hundred years-fo
? a thousand years-shows tina
3 Hungary and Austria always ha
} a sea port in the Adriatic, excep
: for a brief time during the ovel
lordship of Napoleon. At tina