WAR FEVER IN ITALY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2260, 21 September 1914, Page 5

WAR FEVER IN ITALY

MORE DEMONSTRATIONS , IMMEDIATE HOSTILITIES FAVOURED Rome, September 18. The Democratic, Nationalist, Reform, Socialist, and Republican parties have passed a resolution in favour of immediate hostilities. The consensus of opinion is that Italian neutrality has reached the breaking point. There have been many demonstrations in the large cities, insisting on Italy's participation on the side of the Triple Entente. . INDUCEMENTS FROM RUSSIA 1 . (Rec. September 19, 3 p.m.) Rome, September 18. ' A message from Petrograd states that. the entire Russian Press has renewed the solicitations to Italy to abandon her neutrality, offering her Trieste, Trent, and Valona, and also Russian commercial concessions. Trieste, standing on the gulf, of the same name at the head of the Adriatic, is the principal commercial port of Austria. It is the only great seaport of that country, and has about 230,000 inhabitants, including some 170,000 Italians. The taluo of the'imports in 1909 was 573 million crowns, and of the exports 508 millions. The place became Austrian in 1382. Trent, a frontiertown of 30,000 inhabitants, lies on the left bank of the River Adige, and is theseat of government of the south, or Italian-speaking, portion of the Austrian Tyrol, Valona, or Avlona, is a small port in Epirus, standing in the Bay of Avlona. 1 ( ITALY READS SIR MAURICE DE BUNSEN'S DISPATCHES. Rome, September 18. The British Embassy'? publication of a translation of Sir Maurice de Bunsen's and Sir Edward Grey's dispatches have produced a profound effect.' 1 A 'White Paper stated that Sir Maurice de Bunsen, British Minister at Vienna, prior to the war, in. a dispatch in reference to the rupture with Austria showed, that on August 1 conversations between St. Petersburg and Vienna were proceeding in the friendliest way. Austria even assented to mediation on the points in her ultimatum which were incompatible with Ser- • vian independence. It. was at this point that Germany intervened in an ultimatum to St. Petersburg and Paris, cutting short the prospects, for peace. A few days' delay would in all probability have saved Europe from the greatest calamity in history. ✓ /