Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-11
AUSTRANS MUST
RETURN |TALY'S
STOLEN PROPERTY
Even Painting by Raphael,
Looted From Modena CityI
60 Years Ago, Is Recovered
on Threat to Shut Off Food,
by Beatrice baskerville.
(Staff CORES pondcnt OF the Albuquer-
que journal and New York WORLDLY
Copyright, 1919, by the Press publish
by Beatrice BIAS
Especial Gable Dispatch.)

Especial Gable DlspatCh,)
Rome, March 10.-Methods adopted
by General Segre, commanding the
Italian commission in Vienna, might
furnish pattern for the allies in the
recovery of property looted by the
central empires. General Segre
learned the names of many valuable
pictures, statuary and other treasures
belonging of right to Italy but held
in Vienna and other parts of Austria,
and he made it his business to locate
them.
With solderly directness, unham-
pered by diplomatic correspondence,
General Segre has been demanding
the return of such property. At the
outset, especially when he called for
painting by Raphael which was loot
ed from Modena sixty years ago, the
Austrians met him with polite pre-
varication, at first pleading ignorance
of the whereabouts of the treasure
and finally admitting that it was the
private property of Emperor Charles,
But the Austrian authorities did
not know the man with whom they
were dealing One morning General
Segre, with a couple of adjutants,
small guard and several motor lorries,
appeared at Schwoenbrunn palace and
remarked that he had come for the
property and would wait until he got
it. He had not long to wait
Since then he has recovered for
Italy much property of intrinsic and
historic value, including all the, treas
ures which the Austrians removed
from the Trieste banks during the
war.
He met with considerable suave
opposition in respect to the delivery of
1872 locomotives and 2,400 pieces of
rolling stock as provided in the armis-
tice terms which the Austrians had
been eager to sign. The authorities
made all sorts of excuses for noA-de-
liver, wlrereupon General Segre curly
informed them that he would reduce
the number of trains which carry food
to Vienna, the food being furnished
by Italy and the other allies.
President Scitz of the German-Aus-
trian assembly said such barbaric
measures would provoke revolution,
and further delay was sought by the
authorities by means of appeal to the
British and French missions in Wen
ma. Herr Seitz and his colleagues
also said they washed their hands of
all responsibility for the riots that
would surely result.
Knowing the bitter experiences suf-
fered by his country through Austrian
mendacity, General Segre ignored the
threat and was proceeding to put into
effect his words when the Austrians
| been busy in passing over the stipu-
| lated rolling stock to the Italians at
| Innsbruck General Segre responded
by letting food trains pass, and he
| has arranged that four Italian food
train, reach Vienna daily, in addition
to those sent from other sources. So,
with good management, Vienna's
/ hungry days are over.
| General Sesre keeps on attending
| quietly to the task of rescuing pic
lures from this and that gallery,
| priceless are treasures from sundry
palaces, and the Austrian authorities
wonder how on earth he manages TO
| locate the>best specimens or loot from
| the once despised italy