ITALY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 297, 25 May 1915, Page 5

ITALY

HOSTILITIES OPENED YESTERDAY. AMBASSADORS LEAVE CAPITALS. SAFEGUARDING ITALIAN RIGHTS. PEOPLE SUPPORT ITAIA'. P/ess Association—Extraordinary. Koine, May 23. Offcial.—ltaly has declared war en Austra, beginning on Monday. Received 24, !).2o p.m ' Berlin, May 24. There was tremendous excitement with tlie announcement that Prince Union' had -been recalled. An official announcement stated that Italy had made a ]>ro ; vocative attack on the dual monarchy, and had broken her alliance with Germany without right or reason. Prince von Uulow is accordingly instructed to leave Home with Baron Macchio. Vienna, May 24.

The Italian Ambassador demanded his passport, as he had been recalled owing to Austria violating her treaty of alliance, lie added that the fiovenmient was firmly resolved to provide all the means at its disposal for safeguarding Italian rights and interests against every existing and future, menace. The King considers 'himself in a state of war from the 24th. Rome, May 24. Italy has circularised the Powers that she has ibeen strengthened by the vott. of Parliament. There were solemn demonstrations throughout Italy) and it was decided to avoid delay. ENEMY READY ON FRONTIER. MOVEMENTS OX TnE 'SEA. AUSTRIAN'S HOLD UP TRASN. RABIES AXD WOMAN SUFFER.

Received May 25, 1.40 a.m. Rome, "May 24. Eight hundred thousand, chiefly Bavarians and Hungarians, are ready to cross the frontier. Tlie Austrian fleet is concentrated at Pola. Torpedoers are cruising near Cattarro, and eleven submarines are guarding the Dalmatian coast. Baron Maechao spent his last hours demanding that Italy should respect diplomatic immunity, ne conferred with the Holy See for the manifest purpose of making capital as a zealous champion of Catholicism, and in order that his Prussian and Bavarian colleagues might continue to send ciphered telegrams from Rome regarding treatment of refugees from Germany and Austria. Austrians held up a train containing 1500 Italians for twenty-four hours without food or water. Two babies died of heat and thirst in their mother's arms. The Duke of Aosta has gone to the front.

AUSTRIA'S PAINFULSURPRISE. DID NOT EXPECT INTERVENTION. POPE PRAYS FOR VICTORY. GREAT JOY IX ITALY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received May 21, j.IG p.m. London, May 23. Italians made an enthusiastic and great demonstration when war was declared. West End waiters are eagerly awaiting the call to the colors. Five thousand Italians in England are available for service, and numbers are besieging the Consulate for passports. The Pope exhorted young Catholics to enlist, and he is praying for an Italian victory. There is Austrian terrorism at Pola, "here most of the Italians were arrested and despatched to concentration camps. Herman laborers are unceasingly fortifying the Trentino.

There was a holiday in Italian cities, and notices were put upon shuttered shops: "Closed for .National Joy." There was an unprecedented demonstration outside the Royal Palace at Homo, where 200,000 gathered, waving flags. TV King and Queen and family thanked the crowd for its patriotism, and shouted: "Long Live Italy!" The crowd <1 replied: " Long Live the War!" The King approved of the Cabinet's action. Prince von Bulow is expected to v : sit his brother in Switzerland. An Austrian Note sent to Italv expresses painful surprise at the abrupt annulment of the Triple Alliance, which rendered Italy numerous services. Italy knew Austria had no intentions to conquer Servia, and it was never supposed that Italy would have identified herself with criminal intrigues against the security and integrity of Austria. The Note declines to ''regard as illusionanAustria's promise that Ttalv would share territorially the war gains after the war.

CALMNESS IN BERLIN. "GLT.MAXY WILL STILL WIN." ACSTKO-GERMAXS ALL READY. limes and Sydney Sun Services. Received May 24, 0.10 p.m. Amsterdam. Mav 23. Reports state that lierlin received Italy's decision with the utmost calmness. The German press is bitterly resentful, but considers Austria and' Germany will be victorious whether Italy was neutral or otherwise, but Italy's intervention may prolong the war.' f-Mguor Sonnino played the game with lalse cards. The Austro-Cei'man start had long foreseen inion ontion, and had taken all necessary measures. Italy may yet regret, she made interference. ' FORTS IN ALPINE PASSES. AGSTItIAXS IX CONTEALED POSITIONS. Received May 21. 4.30 p.m. Venice, Mav 23. The Animus have fallen hack lo the fortifications of Ala Alpine passe(a few miles within the Austrian frontier, dinctly mirth of Verona), which are deep and lilled with snow. Germans and Austrian, have constructed many little concrete forts on the sunii mils, which they have mashed with ' screens of boughs.

ALL FOR THE NATION. i A NEWSPAPER WON OVER. Received May 24, U.SO n.m. Rome, May 21. Tiic Turin 'paper ''" ■ "'(.ainua, t!ic foremost cnampio:: of neutrality throughout, has yielded, and declares its duty henceforth to give tin 1 warmest support to tin' -.'aCauial cause, -and udrt.s: May events new maturing destroy onn by one our reasonings, and may they (!<•- monslrale Unit our i'vi'cbodnigs were fallacious visions, for we erred wii.li fears that were wholly baseless and all our campaign was but a miscalculation of a tired brain and a fearful heart.

FRANCE WELCOMES ITALY. ANOTHER Pi.,Ei;::E ECR VICTORY. Received Mav 2.5. 1.20 a.m. Paris, 'Mav 2-1. M. Millerand telegraphed to General .foll're the ni'Ws of Italy's declaration of war, and added: "Our troops will welcome with joyous enthusiasm the entry of our Latin' sister. Itnlv rises to. wage the light for civilisation agairtst barbarism, and her intervention is a fresh pledge for final victory," ENTHUSIASM IN PORTUGAL. Received .May '!■>. 1.20 a.m. Lisbon, May 24. Italian residents are jubilant at the decision to intervene. The editor of the local Italian paper marclied in the park ciir'-yiiig the Italian Hug;. He addressed the crowd and subsequently a big and enthusiastie demonstration took place outside the Consulate.

LAST STEPS TO WAR. THE ITALIAN PREPARATIONS. AUSTRIA DENOUNCES ITALY. London, May 23. Italy lias adhered to the Allies' agreement not to conclude a separate peace. The Giornale d'ltalia says that General Hindenburg commands the Austro-Ger-nians against Italy. Austrian soldiery dynamited the Dante monument at Trent. There have been many antiAustrian demonstrations in Dalmatia. The Italian mobilisation comprised men from twenty to thirty-nine. The decree was hailed with tremendous enthusiasm throughout the country. An Austrian patrol crossed the frontier, but Italian 'Chasseurs vigorously attacked and pursued them. Paris, Mayj 23. It h understood that the I'ojic will issue a manifesto approving Italy's intermention and sympathising with the Allies. Le Matin' says that Italy has not issued a formal declaration of war, but the handing of passports to the Ambassadors will suffice. It is reported that Count Bnrian, Austrian .Foreign Minister, has resigned. London, Hay 211.

The Times, in a leader, says the vote of the. Italian t'hamber bears no other interpretation than that the people of Italy, who last week revolted against treasonous intrigues, recognise that the hour of destiny has struck, and that they cannot be deaf to the call which summons them to put forth their might on .behalf of liberty. Italy not only fights for Europe, but also for tlie right to develop according to her native genius and rich tradition, and escape the subtle thraldom of Germanism which has begun to enslave and benumb her noblest faculties.

Tlie British nation watched with sympathy the birth of a new Italy, and gave an asylum to her persecuted sons. England received Garibaldi as one of the heroes of humanity, and welcomes Italy! as si sister in arms. AVo seal the pact of alliance with the proud pledge that our hand will not bo stayed and our ordor will be unabated until, with Italian help, a lasting victory shall have crowned the Allied cause. Amsterdam, May 23. Austrian newspapers denounce Italy for her shameless tivatv breaking. The Reichpost says that Italy is out for robbery. Many German infantry officers have left Constantinople for Trieste. The Frankfurter Zcitmig's Vienna correspondent states that the hatred of the Italian business men and would-be politicians who forced the war is so sincere and profound that the war can only be a terrible, one. London, May 23. Thousands of Italians marched in a 'procession from Saffron ill ill to the Italian Embassy, where there was an enthusiastic demonstration. Tlie demonstrators included a veteran Garibahlian, accompanied by a number in khaki.