Italy.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 278, 3 May 1915, Page 8

Italy.

FORM OF ITALY'S PARTICIPATION. NEGOTIATIONS WITH AUSTRIA. London, April 30. The opinion is growing at Rome that Italy will not attack Austria, but will send a squadron to reinforce the AngloFrench in the bombardment of the Dardanelles, in the expectation that Germany and Austria will declare war. Italy will limit lior activities to the defence of tho frontier, whore already 800,000 men ara concentrated. Home, April ;'.O. The Government has requisitioned all petrol. Tie Stampa, a leading neutral organ, admits that the Austro-ftalian pourparlers have reached the breaking point, anil that only radical alterations in the Austrian point of view can ameliorate the condition.

GERMAN TROOPS MASSED. AUSTRIAN'S ACTIVE. Received May 2, 5.30 p.m. Rome, May 1. The Messagero reports that there are three hundred thousand German troops in the Trentine, half a million Hungarians in the Croatins and Gorizio, and niney thousand at Pola. Austria's military activity is ingREPORTED OFFER FROM ALLIES. ITALY MAY JOIN SOON. Received May 3, 12.10 a.m. London, May 2. The. Petrograd correspondent of tho Morning Post understood the Alllies have made Italy an offer altogether superior to Anything Germany can ofTer at the expense of Austria. Probably Italy will join the Allies.