WHAT WAR HAS DONE FOR ITALY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1651, 16 December 1916, Page 4

WHAT WAR HAS DONE FOR ITALY.

The war Ims proved for Italy elmost an industrial revolution, says (lie Spedalor. German control of Italian industries and commerce has of necessity come to an end so far as it was open and ahove-board and has been reduced to a minimum so far as it was covert. At the same time the Italians, thrown hack upon their own resources, have found that those resources were sufficient to enable them to produce, or to acquire from the outer world, practically everything which they had previously drawn from Germany. They have become to a greater extent than ever before an organised industrial nation. At this moment Italy is manufacturing munitions of war not only for herself but also for Russia. She is manufacturing accessories of war, such as motorcars, motor-waggons, and submarine engines, for all the allies; and incidentally she is building up a large population of skilled operatives, male and female, who will be able to carry on the industries of peace when the war ends. Whatever else the war may produce, it will certainly have created a richer, a stronger, and a more united Italy than existed before, and the Italians will have the proud consciousness that this result will have been due mainly to their own energy and to their courage in taking the right decision at the critical moment.