ITALY, ROUMANIA, AND A WAR OF LIBERATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 184, 10 April 1915, Page 8

ITALY, ROUMANIA, AND A WAR OF LIBERATION.

SIGNIFICANT SPEECHES OF LEADING MEN. "EVE OF SERIOUS EVENTS.” Thg participation of Italy and Rumania in the war is being actively advocated in quarters which carryweight, says the "Pall Mall Gazette” on February 10. “We are cn the eve of serious events,’ says M. Diamandy, the wei!l--known Rumanian statesman,, and the - view' Is shared by leading Italian politicians. Reuter’s correspondent in Paris quotes the "Petit Parisien’s” Rome corespondent as saying: Speaking on behalf of the Italian Radical party, which compiles over seventy u.]embers, the leader, Signor Luigi Fera, said that their entire sympathy was with the cause which Franc e was defending. After explaining the broad lines the prebijem of Italy’s attitude, he concluded: "ThiS len-irmous moral adva-ntagets which Italy would derive from her par-■-icipatkn in the European conflict are in essential reason for us to make definite desolations. I am convinced that our Government will willingly decide. It is not possible that we should rei main with our arms folded. The day on which Austria, either directly or iniireidly, tliroife'ns cur interests we jhall act quickly. Besides, I see clouds coming from Turkey and Albania,” WAR WITH AUSTRIA. Signor Federgoni, a Rome Deputy and leader of the Nationalist party, also expressed his belief in the necessity of war with Austria. He declared that the real reason for calling for intervention was that a Great Power like Italy could not remain aloof from events which would fix the djestinies of Europe for a long time. “That is v. hy,” he continued, "we believe in the necessity of ensuring for oursclvcse hegemony in the Adriatic while reccgn:. ’r,g the right of the Servians to have all the ports necessary for her event: mic development. "The men | >nt and manner of our intervention must be f\-ided with the Powers of the Triple Entente. The negotiations to this cm,] wilj determine the nature of the claims which Italy will put forward at the European Congress | "In the riven circumstances I express every wish that Italian intervention will take place. ... 1 am con- ; vinced that it will take place.”—Reuter.