ITALY MOBILISED AND WAITING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2287, 22 October 1914, Page 5

ITALY MOBILISED AND WAITING

TROOPS ON AUSTRIAN FRONTIER • Rome, Ootober 20. King Emmanuel will review the fleet at Taranto on Thursday next. In order to counteract the Socialists' and Clericals' propaganda in favour of absolute neutrality, the loaders of the Radical Party have started a propaganda, urging that Italy ie morally ready to abandon her neutrality. Italian troops in Lombardy are on tbo Venetian frontier. The newspaper "Messagoro's" war correspondent pays a.long tribute to the British Army, and contrasts the rigid,' mechanical, brainless German with the equally disciplined but intelligent British soldier, whom the preoccupation' of war.still allows to indulge in daily sports. "Undoubtedly," the correspondent says, "the Britisher ie the healthiest, cleanest, and best-fed soldier in the field." ■ i

STRAINED RELATIONS WITH AUSTRIA. London, October 20. . Reuter's Agency states that, owing to inoreasing oppression in Trieste by the Governor, Prince Hohenlohe, the Austrian-Italian situation is daily growing graver. "HUMANITY REPROACHES US."(Bee. October 21, 8.30 p.m.) Romo, October 20. General Riccioti Garibaldi, writing to the "Giornale d'ltalia," sayei "It is a pity that instead of a few thousand Italian bayonets participating In the war weihave not sent a million and a half, that would have saved several hundred thousand lives and millions of francs. Humanity reproaches us for letting the opportunity pass of ending this unnecessary, atrocious, and infamous war." ■ ,