Evening star., 1915-05-11
titude before this extreme date.
ALI Parties Believed United.

French observers of the political sit.
uation in Italy infer from the audience
yesterday between King Victor En-
manuel and former Prime Minister Clio
litti that the non-intervention party ir
Italy has determined to withdraw all
opposition to the war
Consequently the Italian parties
would be united in support of wal
policy. in the judgment of French OBJ
servers. based upon two Fundamental
considerations. namely. that wrongs
have been done to Serbia and Belgium
ad that the racial aspirations Of the
Italians on the eastern shore of the
-hdriatic and in the Mediterranean now
can be satisfied.
Military writer's are presenting the
argument that war for Germany and
Austria on third frontier undoubt-
edly will make the resistance of the
central empires on their other fronts
more feeble. so much SO that with the
advent of Italy victory over Germany
is set for the middle of the summer.
The Milan correspondent of the Ex-
celsior telegraphs his paper that.a dis
patch to the Secolo from Lugano, SwitZ-
erland. says the police of Lugano have
been instructed to make preparations
to protect Prince Won Buelow, German
ambassador to Rome. when he passes
through that city on his way home.
Seek Safety at Home.
A Milan dispatch from Udine to the
Havas agency says thains arriving from
Austria are filled with Italian travel
ers. Hundreds are waiting at the Tri-
este railroad station for places on
trains
The departure from Rome Of the staff
of the Austrian embassy to the Nati-
can is denied by the Osservatore Ro-
mano, according to a Havas dispatch
from the Italian capital The newspa
per says that not only has no member
of the embassy staff left. but that a
soon.
4 Havas dispatch from Geneva says
the Tribune of that city declares that
secretary general. of the Italian en-
bassy at Vienna has left for Rome. and
that Due D'Avarna, the Italian ambaS-
sador. has made farewell calls upon his
diplomatic colleagues at Vienna, be-
sides holding long conference with
United States Amba ssador Penfield.
The Tribune also asserts that new
carded in the principal towns of Trent
which amount to declaration of a
state of siege.
Offers Made by Austria.
Another version of the territorial con-
cessionS Austria is said to have pro-
posed to Italy has been printed by the
Mattino of Naples and telegraphed to
the Havas Agency by its Rome corre-
spondent. According to this report,
Austria is willing to cede part of the
province of Trent to Italy. together
with a strip of territory in the region
of the Isonzo river. which empties into
the Gulf of Trieste. Trieste itself is
absolutely excluded, as well as Istria
and Pola.
The It.lian cabinet is said to have
considered these concessions INSULT
cient. and made counter proposition
all Of Trent up to Brenner
"a mountain pass Of Tyrol on the rail-
road line connecting Innsbruck with
Boze and offering the shortest route
between central Germany and Ita'y),
together with Trieste and Istria. in
Gliding Pola. Italy. the Mattino as
serts. will insist upon obtaining Triest,
but is ready to give Austria commercial
guarantees.
The Haras correspondent says he is
able to state tha. the Italian govern
ment has demanded of Vienna a def
mite answer within a fixed time. He
adds that in the hest informed circles
there is no real hope Of a peaceful set
tlement. although Pope Benedict has
sent Emperor Francis Joseph an auto
graph letter asking him to yield, in or
der to avoid another war