Italy.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 167, 21 December 1914, Page 5

Italy.

GERMANY FEARS FURTHER ENEMIES. ITALIAN' PARTICm.mON MEAN'S DISASTER. VON lUT.OWS DIFFICULT ERRAND. Received 20, (i.17 p.m. London, December 19. Rome messages state that Prince Von Billow will strive to avert Italy's participation in the war, and, if unsuccessful, he is authorised to ask the King to assume the initiative in a peace movement, and offer jncdiation. Germany is fully aware of the impossibility of continuing, recognising that if Italy participates, the Russians and Ser- | vians will advance on Vienna, and the ' Italian fleet will initiate extensive opera- ] tions in the Adriatic. Von Billow's main j object is believed to be to avert the catastrophe caused by the defeat of Gcr- | many, by arranging an opportune peace movement. His chances of success are slight, as Italy is unlikely to offer to mediate before she is assured that the proposal will be acceptable to all the i parties concerned. Regarding interven- I tion, Von Bulow is too late to influence Italy's decision, PRIESTS AS FIGHTERS. NEW ZEALiAX I) MAKISTS INTERVIEWED. New York, December 18. Three New Zealand Marist priests, Dean Regnault and Fathers llolley and Kennedy, have arrived at San Francisco from -the front. They state, that a French army captain, who is a priest, calls men to absolution when about to charge the enemy. It- is nothing to see 'High Mass celebrated in the trenches during a lull. All the fighting celebrants are soldiers. They doll' their warlike accoutrements and don priestly garb, and immediately the Mass is endcel the priests discard their robes and buckle on their fighting uniforms. THE GARIBALDI LEGION. London, December 18. . A thousand men in London have enlisted in the Garibaldi Legion. Twenty thousand are training in the Garibaldi camp in France.