Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-04
IN THE DAYS NEWS
THE TRESTINO.

The Trentino, redeemed Italy"-rs- gently the scene of an anti-AustriaH demonstration by Fascist, is the subject of the following bulletin from the Wash ipgtqn, D. C., headquarters of the Nationnal Geographic Society.
 The Trentino, the inland portien of what constituted Itala irredenta' befare the World War, has become Itala re- aenta' since the victorious HaFrhWaId
 push Of the Italian armies and the signr ing of the peace treaties; but that fact has not altogether solved the problem siwsIs created when i've peoples of divergent culture must live together, HOT | has the shifting of the international ! border number of miles to the north | ward greatly altered the attitudes Of the hereditary enemies whose lands t 1 divides
 1 What the Itsliaas call the Tren- tino,' the Austtisns called Southern 1 FyFel.' The region had more cheek.
 cred career even than Alssee,LoEFains I Civilized by the Romans and made 2 1talians love to feel they have Salle1 1 heir. the district remained updey one or l another form of Roman. Italian or Lombard control until 1927 when it WAS severed from Italy and given Into tho hands of Prince Bishops of Trent uAdeF more or less noWlBal German control.
 iH 1898 the country became Austrian, in 1 1905 BavaFian The French undsP ] Napoleon captured it in 1909 and he'd it
 until 1874 when It was again banded over to Austria, It remained Austrian
 until Italy's soldiers 'redeemed' it during the World War.
 4 During all these vieissitpdes, hew-
 ever, the Italian language and Italian I culture persisted, with especial tenaeity, of course, in the south, toward the pom-
 iRal Italian border. That border dipped ! far south of the, crest of the Alps to : enclose the FFentiHe in the Austrian
 Empire, crossing valleys and running ] aleng hills rather than mountains, The : IrFsdeRtist movement net enly main. ] tained that the Italian-speaaiHg peeRle tefSthe FFentiRe should be enfoieed within the borders of Italy, but 1t eeheed the , assertion of the proud old Roman Elm. piTe that Rene, for it's protectien, must : reach to the crest of the Alps.
 'Tyroi north of the Alps was Gernan- cized early. But the mountain barrier slowed up the southern advance. of Ger, man culture, Despite direct GeFHaniG eentral for century and German In, a4eHee for much longer period, thi Trentine was appFeeiably Gernanjcizec !, only in the extreme nefth.I Tn RelEafi. (which the AustTlans caled Bozen) forty miles south of the main ridge e y the Alps in the Adige Valley, there va
 en obvious conflict between the w
 cultures, The streets and squares DOT, German names and the store signs Ger
 man ehAractFs The slim steeoie of tn,
 parish church was uudeniably Gothic
 But though ese of the principal street. bore the name LaubeBgasse the grace 2 tui arches of ip aTcadsd sides sFe ? claimed Italy, and the trade Ia thet
 shadows was largely eaETied on | F Italian,
 7 "scuth from BeIssne German inau
 enee carried on 8 losing fight Trent t feaaled by the AustEians Trieut, and b n the English Trent), thirty miles fartlie '- south. and almost an equal distanc
 within the Austrian border, was all bu q an acknowledged. Italian city. Ther Y was practically no touch of GeFma
 aFehitsetqye here, no eagnAeuage of Gel ? man names. It was and Is 3 city ' 2 medieval Italian palaces like many of il
 plain, and it's streets bore the Roman
 centuries. The German lansuaSe VI .I rarely heard except in military order
 and its unfamiliar letters appeared onl
 new aud tthea below pfqelamatieHsi
 Italian.
 6ast coR1eieueus ef the GeFms
 tegehAs, perhaps, was that eaHtFlhnti
 AF r-the qusintly esPbsa AuetFit .s saiAiefs, the KaiasPiager with the \. tegHty pluEisd hats Tbs Nete tss ! struck in rrente was obviously al,eI A and thsir elumss even were Aet l, x x launty as these of ths Bsfslelish VI k new sand guard among their os ~ rEhs TTantine, slepipg te the sqnt '2 yeeeiYea 2 flood Of llsht and EaFmi which the Fsgien north of tSe Abs eai
 net know. Just aa GeSmGG culture D came less and less influential te ll
 eeAth Of he Alpine divide yo kAe pin,
 sas agF of eeAtssl EuseRe dyteals axs