Evening star., 1915-03-21
Garibaldi's
Prediction,

uo4 4Ut4Uk ) tnere Will De reVOlu-
Prediction. ton" And there are
some Indications now
that italy Is mobilizing her fleet at
Taranto. 1t is true there are many
rumors afioat concerning the mission
OF Prince Won Buelow, who is reported
as having offered Italy the cession
of Trentino. etc. but the dispatches
fail to indicate that Austria has au-
thorized such cession. Nor does it
appear that Italy would accept such
peace offerings.
The Giornale d'Italia, which repre-
sents the political majority supporting
the Roman cabinet, in a recent edi-
torial declared that "it would be diff
cult for Italy longer to remain neu-
trail. because the attack on the Darda-
nelles has brought up three great prob
lens affecting Italian interests. The
first of these problems is the new rule
to allow Russia access to the Mediter-
ranean through the Dardanelles. the
second concerns the equilibrium of the
Balkans. and the third the partition OF
Asiatic Turkey. which affects the equi-
librium of the eastern Mediterranean.
1T Is impossible" adds the Giornale.
for Italy to keep out of the solution of
such problems unless she is satisfied to
see not only the powers of the triple
entente settle these affairs according
to their interests, but also the small
but audacious and resolute nation
Greece"
Italy it is certain could not accept
Prince Won Buelow's proposition even
if Austria would con-
Revolution sent, because Italy ir-
D:L redente" would revolt.
1oSSipie. The government at
Rome understands the spirit of Italy
at this moment and that any arrange
ment with Prince Won Buelow could
only terminate by revolution and the
overthrow Of the kingdom
The questions that separate Italy and
Austria Germany are not new but old,
the barbarians on the death Of Theo-
dosius "a. D. 3e5). After the Goths and
Lombards there followed the feudal
regime, with the three capitals, Pavia,
Ravenna and Rome. In the twelfth
century there was the union of these
against the Germans: in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries Italy was the
battle ground of the French, Spanish
and Germans. In this interval the Tyrol
was acquired by the Hapsburgs. Tren-
tin in the north was ceded to Bavaria
by the peace of Presbourg. Austria
ceded the Adriatic coast to Napoleon in
1905. In 1906 Istria was proclaimed
province of Italy. Trieste and Trente
henceforth became the object of 1taly's
aspirations.
The congress of Vienna restored the
of the HapsburgS at Trieste
and Austria maintained her authority
in the peninsula of Italy until France
restored by force of arms Lombardy
and Venetia to the King of Sardinia
in 1859.
In 1865 Bismarck, replying to the gov
ernment of Victor Emmanuel in April,
said:
'Trentin was a part of the German
confederation. 1t was impossible to
stipulate in advance the cession of
Trentin to Italy, but that which could
done during or after, above all by ad-
dressing an appeal to the people"
Victor Emmanuel telegraphed to the
Emperor Napoleon III of the peace
parley that Austria's defeat at Sadowa
made probable:
The territory to reunite to the king
dom should extend to frontiers neces-
sary to it's security. The Italian Tyrol
will consequently be necessary"
After Sadowa, although the Prus-
sian cabinet was not entirely sure Of
peace, Usedom informed
Prussian Italy on July 20 Gs66):
p-: IF Italy resists the pres
1IoAlse. sure of France I am for
ized in the most precise manner to as
sure that Prussia will firmly sustain
Italy; if the war continues Prussia
will support Italy's claims for the
Tyrol in the SOUTH
Encouraged by such assurances, Wis
CONT Venosta declared to Prince Ma
polean that: THE prospect of peace,
or even armistice, without the posses
sion of Trentin was impossible" Sud-
denly the peace of Nickolsburg was
signed between Prussia and Austria.
and Bismarck manifested no further
interest in Italy's reclamations. Gen.
Won Moltke, indeed, before iberating
Austrian officers tprisoners) eXacted
of them the oath not to bear arms
against Prussia. There was not a word
said concerning Italy.
King Victor Emmanuel was veXed
and even threatened to continue the
war. He demanded that the armistice
should be based upon the principle of
"uti possidetis.'' familiar diplo-
matte expression having special ref
erence to territorial possessions ac-
quired by belligerents. Napoleon III
at Vienna. but NJ. de Gra-
mont replied that "Austria's resolution
was irrevocable. and refused to con-
slider the ''uti possidetis."
Nevertheless the cabinet at Florence
continued its effort to obtain satisfac-
ton, and July 90, 1866, 1t telegraphed
is ambassador at Paris: The most i'm
oortant part of the negotiation is the
which should be carried to Isonzo and
% line that crosses the Adige south
Of Botzen and north of Trent"
The following day NJ. Nigra COM
nunicated to the French minister Of
foreign affairs thus:
1.-The reunion of Trentin TO the King
1om of Italy is essential to Italy. This
territory belongs to the
Essential peninsula ethnographi-
r.d;4; cally. geographically.
oon"i'AoA' historically and mill
arily. Italy does not claim even that
part of the Italian Tyrol which was a
,art of the ancient Kingdom of Italy
lnder the name Of the Haut-Adige.
Ter demands are limited exclusively to
Italian population. On the manner in
which the question will be solved de-
,ends in great part the establishment
If definite amicable relations between
tally and Austria"
The government at Vienna replied
hat 1t preferred to continue the war
ather than yield part of the Tyrol
md OF Istria, where her troops had
,nly known success. italy was obliged