WILL ITALY REMAIN NEUTRAL?

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2284, 19 October 1914, Page 6

WILL ITALY REMAIN NEUTRAL?

POLICY OF WATCHFUL WAITING ' _~: ' (''Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)' .;' London, October 16. 'K ■ correspondent who toured the Austrian_ frontier and Italy states that ' there is a strong-feeling in favour of neutrality, the Italians considering that the' longer they wait the stronger they will bo, as the weaker their potential enemy becomes. Austria and Germany aro doing aJl_ in their power to avert giving Italy grounds for war. In Vienna and. Berlin the name of Italy is . scarcely mentioned without execration, but the Press of both capitals havo . been: schooled not to disclose this attitude. • / ■'-,-.■ Vienna,is full of open fears. The spirit of the people- has been cruelly chastened .by the total .-failure of the proud Imperial arms against littlo Ssrvia. The fortifying pi tho capital proceeds apace. Austria now puts all her trust in .Germany. ...- ', SEQUEL TO- THE DREADNOUGHT SMASH. (Rec. October 18, 10.30 a.m.) • t .... Rome, October 16. ■'' Prince Hohenlohe's expulsion of Italian subjects working in the_ Austrian ;Hockyards, as'a consequence-of the fire at the Montfalcone arsenal, is causing •i a, great ferment in Italy. (',.-.'■ ;-A cablegram from Rome, published on Saturday, stated that a fire at the Montfalcone arsenal at Trieste destroyed the scaffolding of an Austrian Dreadnought, 1 which was to have been launched to-day. The, vessel crashed to the ■'. ground, and six destroyers were also damaged. Slav incendiarism was suspected and many workmen were arrested. The Austrian authorities had recently • Jargely superseded Italian workmen in the dockyard by Slavs. -V"'.; ; -DEATH OF^ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER. .'■' ■•■■..■''■••. ' (Rec. October 18, IOiO a.m.) ,' Rome, October 16. . The Marquis di San Guiliano. (Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs), who Tiras'reported on Saturday to be critically ill, is dead. ; .