Evening star., 1918-01-03
HUNS FAIL TOK|LL TALYS
FRIENDSHIP FOR ALLIES
Fighting of French and English
Prove to Latins Efforts to
Aid Are Sincere.
BY EDGAR ANsEL MOwRER.
Cablexram to The Evening Star and
+ Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 10I7.


ROME, Italy, January 3.-When the
French Chasseurs Alpins were. cheered
in verens; when British columns were
on tho march through the Venetian
plains and when the peasants saw Eng
lishmen breaking the ice on the frozen
streams and stripped to the waist
splashing themselves with the frigid
water. and when both the French and
the English were in the line beside the
Italians the feeling grew that perhaps
after all the alliance was areality.--,
One Of the subtlest ways OF weaken
ing the allies lies In the encouragement
given to small districts and to friction
between the various nations. Italy.
naturally. learned during the period Of
the German alliance to distrust the
French. and today unseen and deceitful
lips are trying to SOW words of discord
wherever they hope to find a fertile
field.
France" they say. will always be
our enemy and EngIand-why England
holds Gibraltar and Suess and can choke
us. England and France do not love.
they merely use Italy"
Win Friendship Test.
It is implied by such speakers that
Austria and Germany are ItaIy's true
friends. Now that the British and
French have come to defend the We
netian plains and Italy itself the Ital-
ians are beginning to realize the falsity
OF such expressions. italian ofiicers
which the enemy voices had said was
'bled white" but which still had re-
serves enough to send many divisions
to the Alpine front
Now President Wilson's concepts and
his plans for league OF nations. Ia At :
ing peace. fair play. no imperfaIist Zoe
on honest growth and no international
brigandage are brought home to the
Italians. The democrats are speaking
In louder tone to the other elements
writes: .71.4E7- &
There is for the peoples OF Europa
only one certain. serious and eff1cacious
way Of protesting against the horrors
tary orders from which this war sprar,a
and uniting upon a general treaty
which includes, obligates and chains
the central powers.
People Realizing Truth.
'Tf." he continues, "the bellisaren,
states do not succeed in forcing . set
Element which guarantees the rights
and interests OF all peoples In subordi.
nation to a principle Of international
solidarity; IL each state remains after
this more or less free to- organize its
military forces at will. there will begin
among the European states not an un.
limited competition in armaments, bu,
a new life-and-death struggle, in which
the arms used will be poisonous reac.
tion and revolution"
The people of the earth seem to be
waking up to the truth.
Snow has fallen in three successive
nights in Rome, and as the people are
not accustomed to the sight ii has
caused endless comment. Most Of thf
public services were unprepared foI
| the blanket of white and have yirtuaI1,
stopped operating. The sight of ST
Peters Church with Michelanrelo,,
dome under snow is magnificent anf
| memorable. Mid-Italy has a fathom .ot
snow in the Apennine valleys, but uboT
F. the front, where snow would give in,
definite aid to the tired Italian irfYanfrv
no snow worth speaking Of has. faIIen
The enemy attacks succeed one another
| but the line holds. -