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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 196, 16 February 1912, Page 4

ITALY'S WAR. The correspondents of some of the London newspapers have disagreed radieX in the estimates of the attitude of the noli rE!° ple t r Ardß the war in TriP w i? he memb ers of one group state iy's ck "ofrhe 7 dt ofW t\, \ stru^le - an d, on the stfe'tw d the ° th <* group state that the spirit of the nation has been aroused to enthusiasm. CerLiS ac e tTon ar in S °th e *° «nd satt rectum m the contemplat on of their country's venture in North Africa A correspondent of the London Spectator quotes a letter written by a young Ital that his beloved motherland is at last tions. "It is beautiful that we also no* have something worth possessing," savs this ardent patriot; "that we, too, are nch and powerful and that we have a King and a Minister of whom we need not be ashamed. When the declarat n of war came we all felt, from the boy of nr T t0 u C ? U man of wenty, ttS none would stand back if his turn to fight came; and now after the whole nation has been trembling and Italy has been governed bygone thought, now w feel the joy of victory like one soul. All this just fifty years after Italy has be' aITe e n W and tifci3 - n<)W ' andnomailhaß lallen and no prices are raised: everyKIK f V as before ' bwt the nation filled with a trembling pride and even hose who formerly liwl nationality now say. with uplifted head: 'I am an Italian!'" The correspondent mentions that many scenes of wild excitement are witnessed in the Italian towns as troops leave for Afftlon„ ♦*? T ?" e Soldier ' while P**ing along the street, cry to a girl: "Give me a. kiss and I'll kill a Turk for you" The girl responded af once. She kissed the sohher hearti y and often, and told Mm, amid the applause of the crowd, to "kill one for each." Probably the voung man who was so favored has found by this time that he made a rather bad bargain