The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-01-03
ITALY LOOKS 10
THE FUTUR It'll
UTMos1 CONFIDENCE / ! i
Has Army Of More Than 2,25o,000
Men in Uniform With. Reserves
Of 1,75o, ,ooo.
DUKE OF ABRUzzl's I: 8
FLEET Is SUPREME.
Alice Rohe Reviews 1talyy's Part in.
Greatest Tragedy Of
History. .sss.
DUKE OF ABRUZZI'S y. \.
FLEET IS SUPREME
BY Alice Rohe.
(united Press STAR Correspondent

Rome, Jan. 3.-When the. orches-
tral guns have boomeds their last
salyo and the big asbestos curtain q
peace drops on Europe's war-torn
stage, doubtless the world will begin
to appreciate the role played by King
Victor in the greatest tragedy of his
tory. - ssssE g: ( :
Act II was well undo way before
Italy Joined the players and King
Victor with his tuft ofsrooster feath:
ers appeared from the wings. He
had frequently been mentioned inzthe
lines, and no sooner had he strode
upon the stage than heaIand the vet:
eran actor Franz josef eamesto blows
Land Program Outlined.
verona will fall before Gorizia,' Z
Shouted the Austrian, IN; @ 3 r. T .s "
."'Gorizia first, +retorred Victor
and the play Went, on. s.z.. =
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1t was not until MAY first of last
year that Italy declaredEwar on Aus
tria. Immediately the!sItalian gen
eral staff outlined the following land
program: -. =. eifl<s4sSEssS sE
4 s = I. AN Aggressive, SYSTEMATIC op,
GRAFTON on the mount taiHeas northern
frontier, Trentino and the carnic
Alps long fortified byssAu Austria, de-
signedly to make an Austrian inva-
sion of Italy easy viii les sstanding i'm
pregnable against sItalian invasion ]: S.: 1:
2. An offensive onsa large scale
against the valley Of theAIsonzo which
barred Italy,s way tosard the Ju-
'lian Alps on the east and the Istrian
peninsula to the sout =. :
s The naval program WIS this De-
$ struetien .e6t Ran ipmme cree on
The Adrfatiesand adjaceln waters and
the bott1ing ups.or destruction of the
Austrian fleet. 3..E..
On Enemy's Soil.
On land today Italy faces the New
Year as the only one Of the Allied
powers whose main army is firmly
entrenched on the soil Of an enemy.
On water the Duke of*Abruzzi's fleet
is supreme. The Austrian main
fleet, refuged in ~Pola harbor, re-
fused the Italian challenge just as
the German fleet defiies the British
in the Kiel canal. Like Germany,
Austria is unable to give safe con-
voy to her own commerce.
With an army of more than $780,
900 men in uniform, with reserves of
1,75O,0OO men between IS and 3S yet
to be called to the colors, with abun-
dant equipment, especially heavy ar
tillery, backed up by splendid in
dustrial mobilization capable of feed
ing munitions for any emergency,
Italy looks to the future with the ut
most confidence. This feeling was
vividly reflected in the recent utter
ances of Baron Sonnino, minister of
foreign affairs, in the chamber, in
which he announced not only Italy's
agreement with the Allies not to con-
clude separate peace, but her pur-
pose to extend the campaign across
the Adriatic in support of stricken
Serbia. 49, ~'
Troops in Albania. 1
In answer to the; latter pledge
$4,000 Italian troops have already
landed in Albania where pioneers are
busy at bodybuilding and other
means of transport through the path,
less mountains, Food and clothing
by the shipload are being sent by the
Italians for the Serbian refugees.
Seven months of fighting along the
lines of the general stairs plan o.
campaign have produced far greater
results than the daily commiques
have indicated. On the Isonzo from
the offensive has reached the stage
where an Italian occupation of the
entire Istrian peninsula, as we'll as
effective thrusts northward and east
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