Neutral Nations

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 27 March 1915, Page 5

Neutral Nations

ITALY,

THE RING OF STEEL

CLOSING OX GERMANY.

BALKANS' WAITING FOR ITALY.

Received Mardt 2tl, 7.25 p.m

Frcmantle, March '2O. The English files contain an interview with General Riceiatti Garibaldi. He declared that in the course of a month or, two the Germans "will make a__desperate supreme effort to turn the tide, of fortune. The Allies will need every man and gun to cheek and overthrow the onslaught. An emphatically overwhelming majority of Italians favored immediate intervention. Italy could put two million thoroughly -efficient men in the field, and 100,000 at the outset. Greece and Roumania will follow Italy's lead with another million. With Italy, Greece, Servia, and , Roumania linked together, and joining hands in the west with ' France and England, and in the east with Russia, the ring of steel encircling the dual alliance would he complete. _ltaly alone coul4-strike the armies of Germany and Austria aF their weakest point. She could command both theatres, while the combination of forces such as he had indicated would inevitably hasten the termination of the war anil stay) the appalling slaughter and mutilation ofEurope's youth and"" cliivalfy.

THE BALKAN STATES, ROUMANIA Will; SOON BE

FIGHTING.

Received March 26, 0.55 p.m,

London, March 25. Mr. W. iMcKenzie, war correspondent, states thit highly placed Roumanians anticipate/that Roumanja will declare war on the side of tile Allies this week, and that Bulgaria and Greece will 3oon follow.