ITALY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 5

ITALY

ALTERING THE MAP OP EUROPE ITALY JLVY TAKE A HAND. AN ENIGMATICAL UTTERANCE. "ITALY HAS NOTIIIXG TO FEAR." Received 24, 10.15 p.m. Paris, August 24. if. Delcasse, interviewed. said that Italy a neutrality was already a gre-U advantage, to the Allies. It was not for ii foreigner to say whether Italy should depart from her neutrality, but eireunihtsincea might arise making this advantageous. The map of Europe, he said, will be entirely rearranged for u ceut'lrv. and the next Congress will have a heavier task than after Waterloo "'ltaly," continued M. Delcasse, "has nothing to fear from England. France and Russia, who have no possible objection to the realisation of Italy's aspirations." (One of Italy's nn aspirations is to regain territory filched from her in the past by r Austria.) A PREDICTION. Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables. Received 24, sio p.m. Lbmlon, August 23. Influential Italians expect tluvt Italy will join the Entente early in the Week. ACUTE TENSION WITH AUSTRIA. ITALY ACCUSED OF AIDING THE ALLIES. Paris, August 23. Acute tension is reports! between Italy and Austria,. The_ latter reproaches Italy \vitft*."filT£>r,iing facilities to the Allies in the Adriatic. Renter states that the Mediterranean is free from Jos'tile ships and Malta i.; resuming a normal an-peit. There is strong reason for saving that Italy will shortly intervene ill favor of the Triple-Entente.