Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-28
ITALY AGAINST PLuNC|NG
into GREAT WAR VORTEX
Fails to See That 1t Can Get Any
thing by Fighting Not Possible
to Gain Without Fighting.
REAL ATTITUDE DISCUSSED
Government, Money Interests and
Thinking Glasses Set Their Faces
against Being Implicated Pop
ular Sympathy Is With Allies.

uIar sympathy Is with AllieS.
The real attitude OF Italy towards
the war as distinct from the attitude
10 her b. Interested parties in France
and Germany is described below by a
special commission. with exceptional IA
cilitics for gathering reliable informa-
tion. who was sent 10 Italy on a tour
OF inspection by the International News
Service.
Special Cable to The Times Dispatch. ]
ROME, February 27.--After numer
Gus conversations with highly placed
personages In Rome and Milan and
close observation OF the surface facts
as they appear in italy to an unbiased
traveller, I am forced to the conclusion
that. however ardcntly the allies may
desire her entry into the fray. and
however much Austria may desire to
switch Italian popular sympathy over
to her side. there is no other reading
OF the signs in Italy than that:
}. The government. the money in
terests and the thinking classes have
set their faces against becoming i'm
plicated in war against 1taly's for
mer allies. and the possibility of the
government departing from this policy
is very remote.
: Popula" sympathy in Italy runs
very strongly against Austria, and con-
-enuently for the allies.
j. The King and the royal family
senerally arc against war which
would pit the house OF Savoy against
the houses OF HohcnzolIern and Hans
burg.
To superficial or biased observer
travelling in Italy the war talk of the
working classes and OF section of
me press might give the Impression
'hat war enthusiasm is pcrmeating the
nation AS matter OF fact. the war
spirit is confined to that section NJ
public opinion which is always swaved
IN favor OF war Of conquest. Flashv
oratory, which disregards the cold fact.
81 the situation. has caught TN tho
WORKING classes. but they cast ,ittlo
weight INTO the balance because a cam
paiBn against the war presented with
more highly colored rhetoric would
SWING them over to the other side To-
morrow.
NATIONALIST PRESS
UNDER suspicious
~ the same time the Nationalist
nless' winch is shouting for war is nm
"er suspicion. And here ,n,r 60
a
neen secretly fomented and cncour, nad
from French sources The troncl,
ne'hou OF working the neutrals" dif.
iers considerably from the trnnsnaron,
German method adont,d y;
States '' '''''cu
'u' while the working classes wou,d
''th war against Austria, the thInt
ing ana wealthy classes. the men win
'tpott hht stakes In the country and
nuence In nolitics-the backbone O,
,.e hauon-take quite different al
,,"ue with them is the King. and
alho slsnor Giolitu head OF the mos,
powerful political party in Itolv "a
Mno, II Is expected, will shortly be.
'one PTemier again. with n rninis,r,
selId Tor nonintervention
"o Ming opinion, as voiced by hi.
nrs, cousin, the Count of Turin. n, hi.
,to, III Mian the other day, Is that
,'"'H "'iI not go TO war hscausa che
mas no interest whatever in do;nr sn
ana mat while her neutrn1itv ayon
armed and threatening to the Grrm,nio
po"ers' may he beneficial TO the conn.
'rE, war would be a great error
Is the Kings belief. and mn.
Mhich l snare said the Count OF m
rim that the present war viii a,,
nilh peace treaty leaving Eurone I'm
'"e STATUS quo ante bellum"
"e government Is against plunring
''o me great European vortex because
w zee thht ~ can get, by fight
'hE. any territory which il carpn, ~,
without nChting it is cn,nn,n,', -
S"rten In Official cirNles that Prince IN
10" mas formally. offered To J,,l,. ,La
'oN'hce OF Trcr::no AS the prico ~
ner continued neutrality, and has made
~ "'n,cu'ti.s about Italy also taking
over Nalona and Duraz2o. which III,
sve her complete command ~ W. ~,
Auria'lc and render nil tho military
N"'ue OF Trieste and Austria
THERE is NO CRAVING
FOR AUSTRIA AND TRIESTE
II - plain fact that the solid 500.
"on OF the country does not crnv. fo,
.Nustrie and Trieste, and il is equally
certain that the intellectual and bust
ness people OF Trieste. for commercial
reasons shrink from the prosnec, of
passing from Austrian rule
me argument that il viii res, vitb
."e aiies' II they prove the ,ic,ors
a""ro the spoils. and that Italy viii
ket nothing II she holds aloof. is mo,
at Rome with the retort:
The allies and the German. CO.,,
oa'ants VIII tight themselves "a .
htandstiil, Before peace is dcclnr.d w.
snail be In practical possession ~ INA
rentino. and able 10 confront ~.
HIHes with fait acconrli Would
potsess u.s."
the national excneo,.e- has ro,
recovered from the severe strain of ~
iE,Po1 campaign TIL. 5000. 600. oOa loan
.hsso recently scarcely suffices to k,on
Up the threatening appearance NJ
armed neutrality Moreover. an va
Poits mat Italy has modified are false
Tho only precautionary stems taken ",
the recalling OF couple o, cIaes..
.or q snort period Of training. ana
the oecislon 10 maintain win ,hs
coiors the class which In the or5i,.r,.
WaS would be dismissed ~ the sDrinr
eanun,e italy is haneft,ing trench.
dous!: from the business yicwnoiu, 81,
remaining neutral. ana mod.rn ,,,i;.
US lhc!lned 70 iskn q 49,. :.