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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-09
Daily Thought.

No nobler feeling than this. of ad-
niration for one higher than himself.
dwells in the breast of man. 1t is to
this hour, and at all hours, vivifyihg
influence in mans life.-Carlyles
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-09

Love may intoxicate man. but mar
riage sobers him.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-09

In times of peace girls prepare the
rousseau.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-09
MOTHERS
TO BE.
Should Read Mrs. Monyhan's
Letter Published by
Her Permission.

Mitchell, Ind. -' Lydia E. pinkham,e
Vegetable Compound helped me 40 much
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-09

Regal honors have regal cares.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10

West in the critical days of the Luden-
dorff offensive in July and of his de-
fensve thereafter.
Finally, in late October, on the Capo-
retto anniversary, Italy again steps out;
northward she breaks the mountain bar
rier between the Brenta and the Piave.
the threat to her flank and rear is abol
lshed, and then her armies begin to
cross the Piave at the north from Mon
tello, which was the Gibraltar of defence
IN the First Battle of the Piave. The
northern flank makes good it's crossing
and pushes east along the foothills of
the Alps; the Austrian troops southwark
along the river are threatened. The or
der to retreat is given, but Austrian
armies can no longer retreat. Then
comes swift disaster-an Austrian Jena
and thereafter surrender in the field.
marching in time with collapse at home.
Austria is finished in a campaign of a
fortnight, time and details wholly repeat-
ing the Bulgarian episode.
We have, then, on the first Sunday in
November the announcement that Trent
is Italian again. Since the short-lived
Napoleonic kingdom of Italy fell, more
than century ago, this city has been in
alien hands. And what is even better.
the Bremen pathway, by which for fif-
teen centuries northern barbarians have
made their periodic inroads into Italy.
is once more ruled from Rome. The
Lago di Garda has become an Italian
lake. A little more than half century
ago Garlbaldi looked down upon Trent
from the hills, then to be taken for the
attacking, but Bismarck denied it to
Italy Now the people of the city, pas
slonately Italian in all their sympathies,
are liberated. Trieste is similarly occu-
pied by Italian troops. Italia Irredenta
is unredeemed no longer.
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marched against France the Battle of the
Marne would have been a German vic
tory, for French corps which just suf-
feed to win that struggle would have
been fixed upon the Alpine frontier But
Italy did more than release French
troops; she promptly confded to the
world that she intended to be neutral.
France knew it in the earliest hours of
the war and, knowing her southeastern
frontier was safe, took her military
measures accordingly. Moreover, it was
the warning of an Italian ambassador
which led Britain to keep her feet mob
ilized in the critical days just before
war came.
From August, 1914, to May, 1915,
Italy stood neutral. A great battle was
waged in the peninsula between the Ger
man influences and the Italian patri-
OTIS, who saw clearly that neutrality was
not possible. Once it was decided that
Italy would not march with Germany and
with Austria, thing impossible, then
it was not less patent that Italy could
not stay outside the war and maintain
her moral or material position in the
world after the war had ended. Like
the United States, Italy was ineuctably
drawn into the conflict.
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victory of Sadowa few years later. On
the battlefield Austria has always been
beaten, and in this war she has merely
run true to form.
On the military side Austria is now
finished. Her armies have ceased to
exist. Her frontier fortresses are in
Italian hands. At last united Italy
holds the great Bremen gateway, the key
to her own house. She holds Trieste.
the great commercial port of the Adri
attic, and Pola, the naval base, is soon
to be in her hands. The supremacy of
the Adriatic has been won without
naval battle. At the same moment. Sc
curity from the north and supremacy in
the inner sea come to her. Her armies
already occupy Albania, and the harbor
OF Valona will for her henceforth watch
the entrance to the Adriatic.
Thus Italy has accomplished all that
she set out to accomplish more than three
years ago. She has released upward of
a. million Latins of the border lands.
The old rivalry between the houses of
Savoy and Hapsburg- the one represent
ing Italian liberty and unity, the other
sanding for slavery in Italy and else
where-has terminated in the collapse of
the Hapsburg monarchy. Almost thou
sand years Of evil history, Of struggling
against human freedom IN Switzerland.
in Bohemia, in Hungary. in Poland and
IN the Balkans, against the unity of Tia,
German people, of the Poles, the italians,
the northern Slavs and the southern
Slavs' has come to an end in one short
week.
It is difficult to preserve any sort Of
perspective when events are hurrying on
at such pace. More has happened AZ
fecting European conditions, greater
changes in the map and In the internal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
A Century Of Struggle Has Ended With
Italian Liberation Com
plete
BY FRANK III. SIMONDS
Author of ssrhe World War;" "They Shall Not Pass"

trian armies are fleeing in ruin or sur
rendering Internationally; a final ex-
punging of the sorrow of Novara is TAX
ing place.
And this victory demonstrates clearly
the soundness Of Italian craftsmanship
in entering the world war on the Allied
side more than three years and a half
ago. When the war came Italy was still
allied to Germany and Austria. A mar
riage of convenience growing out of the
political policies of Crispi and the ma
nipulation Of Bismarck condemned Italy
to fight against the liberal nations of the
world if Germany and Austria were at
tackled or claimed themselves the as
sailed parties. She was bound to defend
the very jailers who held her brethren
in ignoble servitude.
The refusal of Italy to transform
defensive into an offensive alliance in
July, 1914, was one of the decisive mo-
ments of the whole war. Had Italy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10

Russians crowded over the Carpathians,
Przemysl surrendered with $4,000 pris-
oners. Meantime Serbia had destroyed
another great Austrian army at Valievo.
In 1915 the German victory at the
DunaJec relieved Austria, but the fol-
lowing year the failure of the offensive
against Italy was followed by the colos-
sal disaster in Galicia and Volhynia,
which led to the capture of 100000 Aus
TRAN troops and the approach of the
Russians to Lemberg. Only German in
PREVENTION saved Austria at this moment.
and again when Rumania entered the
war, while on the Italian front Gorilla
was lost.
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4 Blunted instrument
L N in German Hands

In 1917 Austria's role was passive.
even at Caporetto the strategy was Ger
man, and the decisive blow was deliv-
cred by German troops. AS an offensive
force, as fighting force, the Austrians
were no longer formidable, and their de-
feat in the First Battle of the Pave
this year proved this fact. After the
defeats of 1915 the Austrian army was
no more than blunted instrument in
German hands; it supplied troops for oc-
cupation in Russia, it held the Italian
armies at the Piave, but it was no
longer capable Of furnishing more than
few relatively inferior divisions for
defensive operations on the West front,
notably at st. Mihiel.
Such is the Austrian record in the
present war. The German and Hun
garian troops have fought we'll and with
great determination, although under
Austrian and Hungarian leadership thew
have invariably been defeated. But the
Slav troops have fought with little en-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
Droblerpatic Greco-Italian
NJo~2+s1+.1

Beyond all question, it will fall to
Italy to protect and organize Albania.
This carries with it the certain posses
sion of Valona, just as the possessicn Of
Pola on the north is assured. Between
the Slavs and the Italians several agree.
ments have been signed and a tentative
accommodation has been arranged. but
the final settlement will come before the
peace conference Between the Greeks
and the Italians there is no settlement,
but negotiations are in progress All
Americans must hope that in these nego-
tiations Italy will be guided by gen.
erous recognition of the very principles
she has, in her own history, so nobly vim
cicated. This hope will be the keener
because nowhere are there more super.
ficially unpleasant obstacles to perms
nent peace than in the Adriatic and the
Egean.
Putting aside the problems of the fu
ture, it is for all Americans to congratu
late Italy, an ally who has sent thou.
sands of her sons to this country and
whose relations with us in the future
must be far more intimate A HUNDRED
years of noble aspiration, gallant Scr'
flee and incessant effort are now crowned
with complete success. Italy has
achieved national reunion She has also
achieved political emancipation fof
fully a generation she has been chained
to the car of the reactionary monarcnles
Of the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzolerns
Her natural allies, France and Brital'
the Western liberal powers, have been
separated from her by obstacles OF Ter
man making.
But once more, as in the days OF Ia'
French Revolution and of the great I'D
GRAFTON Of the last century, French s0F
diers have fought beside Italian. lah
time, too, British troops have shared u
the struggle, and British and Fren''
troops, with a small American coa'iD
gent, have marched in the last vlcso'''
which was, despite this relatively in 'A.
siderable aid, a genuinely Italian W
umph. italia fara da SCI is motto !.
the victory in 1918 When one 'ai'A
of all the crimes and tragedies, the NV,
ders and the executions which III i''
ian history of the first two genefa'''.
of the last century, there must. be ca"
! for rejoicing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
On the Military Side the Austrian En-.
pire Is Now Fin
ished
Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Inc.

organizations of nations, than IN
other month since Napoleon fell. in To-,
Yet, great as is the procession :.
events, the final realization of Jt.s.
aspirations is worthy to stand with y
most considerable. 1t is final ohl;t.s
ton of one portion of the iniouitess =,
tenn which MetternicS fastened nm, :
rope at the Congress of Vienna NJ:
the final and the logical step in the l;h.,
alton of the Italians, who have hesn a.
slaves to successive conquerors evss
since Rome fell. AS such it is a c,s..
and enduring act.
The Italian victory instantly rs;s..
great problems, discussion of which +
the main, must be adjourned unit, n.
war has ended and the world eoes =, :
peace conference to remake the wo.n
map. But i is clear that if the ne.,.
of the world is to be preserved ban..
forth there must be a proper settlement
between the Italians on the one hand ana
the southern Slavs and the Greeks mn u.
other. The conflict between Slay am
Italian claims in the regions along M
Adriatic, between the Greeks and y.
Italians in northern Epirus and h.
Egean Islands, must be settled in A..
cordance with the principles of nato..
ality, the principles vindicated BY Itsk
in her long and noble struggle for unt
and freedom, or what is left ineoutabv
decided will have to be settled riph,lv
in the future.
If there is left bitterness between the
Slavs and the Italians growing out of the
occupation of Slav lands by the Italians
then the Germans will, in the future, fna
ready ally in the southern Slavs. il
they at some future time seek to regain
a port on the Adriatic, to retake Trieste
which is bound to be the object Of later
German covetousness. And if the
Greeks are refused the possession of The
Greek regions of northern Epirus and Of
the Greek Islands in the Egean, Greece
will also lend as ready an ear to future
Teutonic whispers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
\ nd Venice, Happily,
n Is Still Immune

And on the sentimental side We ~ :.
rejoice that the storm which 81 8.
time last year was rapidly approac"...s'
Venice did not reach it. st. Marx : :.
just escaped the ruin of Rheims .e Z.
dral. Another barbarian iiroaa :
come and gone and left Venice Sun :, j,
mune amid her lagoons. In wo'S -.
which so much that is beautiful mas =. y.
ished this is a cause for enduring ~ &,
tude. Shall we much quarrei
italian seeks to build to the nol'a. ~
and along the Julian Alps such pa';. i
as will halt the next German assa ! r,r
the mountains and not in the pla'n'' 4.
the German will strive to come ss ..s
He has been at it for welinlsa ! IL
thousand years. He always fais Z 4,
end, but he always returns s
charge.
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war. 1t was not until the opening phase
of the Second Marine that Gouraud's de-
fence broke this new German method.
After Caporetto Italy suddenly rallied
at the Pave, aided by British and
French armies The moment of supreme
peril passed The Italian army was re-
organized and the home front restored.
Italy entered the campaign of 1913
united, and in this campaign she con-
tributed the first shining triumph. Her
. victory at the Piave in June was the
first in the long series, which has not yet
ended, but has brought about the sur
render of Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria.
The Second Pave was the foundation of
Foch's later strategy, for it definitely
assured him that Austria as an often
sve force was out of the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
[apsburg Ambitions Have Collapsed and Italy Is Uni

Going backward for moment, to Sep
TENDER Is, when D'Esperey launched his
Serbs against the Bulgars about Dobro-
polite, we can count little less than
seven weeks, and in this time we have
seen the miracle accomplished. Serb
troops entered Belgrade on the day 1tal
ian troops occupied Trent and Trieste.
Serbia and Italy were assured of free
dom from an invader at the very same
hour. The occupation of Constantinople
is a matter of moments. The affairs of
Serbia, Turkey and of Italy are liqui-
dated.
What shall one say of Austria? About
the future nothing can be said with
safety. About the past it is, perhaps, in
teresting in the hour of the final mill
tary disaster to recall the military his
tory of the Hapsburg empire in this
war. In August, 1914, at the Jedar a
great Austrian army was routed by the
Serbians, who scored the first consider
able Allied victory of the war A week
later about Lemberg the main Austrian
armies were routed in series of battles,
which constituted one of the great mill
tary triumphs of the war After these
defeats the Austrians evacuated most of
Galicia.
Temporarily relieved by German aid,
the Austrian armies in November Joined
in the first Hindenburg bid for Warsaw,
but were defeated on the Vistula, and as
a consequence Galicia was overrun to
the gates Of Cracow In the winter the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
\ Last Germany Was
"A Deprived of Reinforcement

Yet even in victory Italy was still too
weak to push an offensive. She was out
numbered and outgunned, she was out
munitioned and before the multiple lines
of enemy intrenchments her armies were
still immobilized. From June to late Oc-
tober Italy held seventy Austrian divi-
sions on her front, but this was the ex-
tent of her possible contribution, aside
from the successful cooperation of her
troops with those of her allies in the
Balkans. But in holding these seventy
divisions she deprived Germany of the
essential reinforcement needed in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
THE Critical Moment Of
Il Italy's Entry

1t was gigantic referendum, plebs-
cite, nation wide, which brought Italy
into the war. She came at critical
moment. Already. the Battle of the
Dunajec had opened that terrible cycle
of Russian disasters which were to lead
to the fall of the Romanoffs and the ex-
tinction of Russia as a nation. Despite
the high hopes of the Allies, founded on
an imperfect realization Of essential
facts, Italy was not able to take the road
to Vienna in her first campaign. She
flung her troops against the fixed posi-
tions of the Austrians, prepared in the
full light of the lessons of the contem-
porary war of positions, and they failed
to break through.
In 1916 Italy had to undergo a blow
almost as heavy and quite as dangerous
as that borne by the French at Verdun.
An Austrian drive toward the Venetian
Plain from Trent came within an ace of
success-was halted within sight of the
plain. Afterward Italy took the often
sive and captured Gorilla, but again her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
4 Final Expunging of
L "A. the Sorrow of Novara

But after Novara came the swift
change Cavour undertook the mighty
task. SAVOY allied herself with France
and new Napoleon acquired temporary
laurels in Italy by the victories of Sol
ferino and Magenta, which liberated Pied
mont and doomed the patchwork of mon
arches south of the Pc. Garibaldi and
his immortal Thousand" swept the
Bourbons out of Naples. But the lesser
Napoleon lost courage, left Venetia still
in Austrian hands and continued to de-
fend the temporary power of the Pope in
Rome.
Then Italy turned to Prussia, and in
the war of 1865 regained Venetia. But
Bismarck, like Napoleon III, failed to
complete the liberation Of Italy. Trieste
and the Trentino, together with Rome,
were still outside the kingdom. French
defeats in 1870 ended the temporal power
of the Pope, and Rome became again,
after centuries, the capital of the Latin
state Of italy. And now, after forty
eight years more, the Italian tricolor
floats over Trieste and Trent, Italian
liberation is complete, century Of gtrug-
gle, OF agony and Of glory is ending
with these last splendid days, when Aus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
THE Failure of German
Il Propaganda

AS in the case Of the United States, a
vast German propaganda was operated
in Italy. Biilow, the most astute of Ger
man diplomatists, conducted the diplo-
matte battle; newspapers and politicians
were purchased. Giolitti, the most pow
erful single politician in Italy, was a
champion of that neutralist policy which
sefved the German ends. Yet the cam
paign failed. A great outburst Of ma
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
I ooking Backward at
IL the Caporetto Disaster

1t was worse last year, when Italy,
after magnificent effort and colossal sac
rifce, had mounted the Bainsizza Pla-
teau, was blasting a passage toward
Laibach. Then Germany came to the
aid of Austria, using the troops freed by
Russian collapse, and exactly year ago
the disaster of Caporetto marked the be-
ginning of a series of German victories
which led them almost within range of
Paris in July of the present year. At
the time Caporetto seemed an inexplic-
able disaster. 1t was due mainly to the
collapse of the home front. The Italian
people were temporarily yielding under
the strain of three years of war, with
victory still postponed. They felt them
selves neglected, abandoned by their
greater allies. Every sort of poison
worked to the disarray of an Italian
army, which at the moment of victory
seemed suddenly to melt away in su-
preme disaster.
Yet, looking backward at Caporetto, it
seems less inexplicable in the light of
later military events The tactics en-
ployed there were successful a few
months later against the British and
brought about the wreck of Coughs Fifth
British Army. They were successful
against the French two months later at
the Chemin DIES Danes and produced the
most complete French defeat of the whole
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ergy, have surrendered by the thousands
to the Russians and have been an ele-
the strain of the war the army, like the
nation. has steadily deteriorated. Had
the war been between Austria and Rus
STA, Austria would have fallen in the
autumn of 1914, after the defeats about
Lemberg. Without German aid Austria
would have fallen to Italy last autumn
after the Italian victories on the Balm
sizza Plateau.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
\ ustria Has Run
"A True to Form

And the defeats of the present war
are merely a new edition of Austrian
military history. Napoleon began his
career by his triumphs over Austria in
Italy. Ulm, Austerlitz and Wagram in
the days of the Empire were victories
over Austrians. Napoleon III defeated
the Austrians at Solferino and Magenta.
Moltke disposed Of Austria by the single
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offensive was checked; she lacked the
material, her allies were committed to
their own campaigns. were still lacking
in the resources needed to expel the Ger
mans from France. Despite it's brilliant
opening, Italy's effort in 1916 ended in
no great progress.
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tional emotion, a sudden recurrence of
the old but never forgotten ambition to
liberate the Italians remaining in Aus
TRAN chains, an explosion of that emotion
which was in the hearts of young Italy
rising to power, with new and nobler am
billions for their nation, swept the Ger
man intrigue out of the Italian peninsula.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-10
r taly's Hundred Years
l. of Struggle
OF since Waterloo has any Eu-
ropean battle conceded with SO
immediate and complete COL

But it is to the Italian side of the
gigantic drama that we must first turn
A hundred years ago the first aspirations
Of the Italian people, expressed mper-
fectly but coherently in Napoleon's King
dom of Italy, fragment of the real
Italy, were crushed at the Congress of
Vienna. The fair body of Italy was
thrown back to the Hapsburg and Bour-
bon despoilers, Venice and Piedmont
were made Austrian, the wretched Nea-
politan dynasty was restored, North Italy
below the Pc Valley was again parti-
toned among princes and princesses who
turned to Vienna for their support and
conducted themselves on Italian soil as
German armies have conducted them
selves in France In the present war.
generation of agony followed, while
Italy slowly gathered the moral and
spiritual forces for her great awaken
ing. And then, when the revolution of
lS48 swept over Europe, Italy tried and
failed. Novara seemed the ultimate
sanction of the Austrian yoke, perma-
nent guarantee of Italian misery. The
Savoy sovereign who abdicated after
Novara and left his country seemed to
be carrying with him the last hope of
thirty millions of Italians.