Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-14
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a recent requirement of the race corD,,,.,. /
Modern Painters: 'Hs
me fact is that Dante by many exnr.,..
SHOWS himself to have been a notabiv NJ
cllfnDer and, being fond of sitting In the IN, n
WalklnS in dignifed manner on fiat nav,m.A
IN long robe, 1t puts him serlouslv nut y Nj
way when he has to take to hands and -
or look to his feet" -1N4-@ ~
Foreign interpretations Of the Italian "A.
alton are summarized by Current onl,ls
(o), which quotes from various paners,
Ihe truth, as the independent dailIes .h-I
see 1t, is that Italy will "go il alone " p,,I
Won Buelow. SO long German ChanoeIio, Nj
now Anbassador to Rome, has apparently hs,I
monized Italy and Austria to slight a,.si
Not long ago he offered italy the Tr.,,lT|
and a rectification of her eastern fronts, M
consideration not yet disclosed accordln, N
the cautious London Post always in toucb M
the facts of diplomacy. Austria, on the otAs'
hand, is determined not to Weld an inch ~
the equally well-informed Corriere della y,
The deadlock on this point led to the sensatlnsI
retirement of Count Berchtold as AustrolTtus1
EaTlan Foreign Minister, for he was far too 4,
clliatory for Francis Joseph whose formu, =
NO compensation for treachery." He thshI
italy revealed colossal bad faith in not eomus
INTO the war with Germany and the Hapsbwa
Ihe uncertain factor in the course OF M
we are again reminded by the London ~
is the ultimate determination of Giolltt NJ
FORMER PremieD. He wants to come ha
Salandra wants to stay. A test OF strength ID
place the other day when the Chainb,r
Rome gave the Premier a vote of conhdencs
Blowing the Golden Horn
Frank II. Simonds, one of the most prcnl
nent American authorities and writers on
present war, considers the threatened faH
Constantinople a matter of vital importahs
in the deValODnent ne tba italian sitnafas
Writing in the Review of Reviews 20 e
says:
Where German diplomacy had sought to d
alliance-with 1taly---it now contracted z
neutrality and the Trentino and a strip Of Il E
rtory east of the Italian frontier were suggta
as the price OF Italy's neutrality. But from I'd
a bargain Vienna and Rome both shful
Vienna held the price too high, Rome
small, and German irritation at Austrian =
stinacy began to find It's way into the Gem
official press for the first time.
In this situation the attack upon Consa
tinople aroused n fresh outburst OF italian e
ing, gave new impetus to the forces pha
seemed to be drawing Italy into the war
deciding not to attack France In 1911 lnl
had definitely renounced struggle for U
supremacy of the Western Mediterranean,
the fall of Turkey would mean the parun
of Asia Minor To the conquerors would btl
the price for Italy there would be no ~
- i'iiS boAt lO pdil VI Nllc buihNH VI
Thus 1t was that the fate of Constanla' s
became an italian problem, and once mon
world heard of new italian mobilization
fleet of superdreadnoughts waiting on the e
as 1t were
An Earthquake Overshadowed
War and rumors of war have made
great earthquake which recently destIe'
an entire province of Italy seem inslsn9
cant in comparison. Thomas Nelson Fae
the novelist, who is the American ANN
sador to Italy, was there at the time
describes the extent of the destrucupn
Scribner's (5):
An eyewitness, who escaped destrlen0,
Avezzano that morning only because ne ~ ~ <
quite reached the town at the instsnl y
catastrophe, describes in simple words W..
saw: The earth all OF sudden shook w WV, Z
beneath his feet; there was great ioa'
crash and the town before him In the y. .
light, as his eyes rested on It, sans "
ground In a cloud OF dust, Presently " vi Z
man staggered out from a pile or RUNS -, ..
down, bleeding and dazed, and here ana VI
another followed and sank down oul 80 -.
the ruins were 5000 persons, of whom nlne nl.s..
We're stlll there When a wounded reAsr
the way TO Rome that evening was qes 4.
he gave a fairly rational account OF hlnlsss7
when asked as TO Avezzano his rep, y
simply: mon c'e niente." 1t was qai's
there Is nothing left,