Italy.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 8, 10 May 1915, Page 5

Italy.

AUSTRIAN PREPARATIONS IN THE TYROL. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, May 8. A correspondent who has returned from a tour of the Tyrol to Trentino, reports that lie found Innsbruck a vast hospital, the Red Cross flag flying everywhere, and the streets filled with wounded. Trentino is an armed camp for 18,000 troops, the stragetic points having been fortified with fev erish zeal. Normal life has ceased, no men being in civilian dress. The Tyrol is a province of the Austrian Empire, comprising the mountainous region between Munich and Verona, the Brennan Pass furnishing the connecting way between. The Tyrol embraces all the highest peaks of the Austrian Alps, culminating in the Ortler Spitz; the area oi the province (exclusive of Voralberg) is 10,300 square miles, two-fifths of which is forest; and there is a population of 90,000. The capital of the Tyrol is Innsbruck, and the principal industries arise from mountain pastureland, vineyards and silk. SERBIA SECURES OUTLET IN THE ADRIATIC. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, May 8. Rome declares that an agreement has been reached between Italy and Serbia, the former conceding a Serbian outlet in the Adriatic. “DOWN WITH AUSTRIA AND GERMANY!” (Received 8.50 a.m.) Rome, May 9. T 1 le Austro-tlerman exodus continues wholesale, including the Embassy staffs. Students at Florence hissed the departing trams, with cries of “Down with Austria and Germany!”