ITALY KEEPS TROOPS ON WAR BASIS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 10

ITALY KEEPS TROOPS ON WAR BASIS.

RESERVES HELD WITH COLOURS. Rome, February !).—A royal d-scree orders that the soldiere of the second category class of 1893 and 1804, who should have returned home, shall now be retained under the colours until M.\y. 31, 1913. Another royal decree prohibits tht exportation of fre3h or preserved -perk and other preserved meat, chestnuts, fowl, oil, fat, and tallow. This <k>cree, with the former royal decree prohibiting export* of certain ; other goods, compj-etcs the iian on- the exportation of-anything which might be used as food for man or beast. VOX JJUELOWS ACTIVITIES. Deputy Atobelli, in a formal interpellation m the Chamber of Deputies to-day, asked Prpmicr Salandra to ascertain the foundation ■ for "the grave reports circulating concerning the illicit intrrferencj by an Ambassador of a foreign power in the parliamentary life of our country, with a view to obtaining a change in our foreign-policy." ' , . The deputy asked, furtlrer, if the Premier's reply shall be in aflirmition of the report that the Amba«eador had been engaged in such a propaganda, what action the .Premier intended to take to protect the dignity of the, Italian State. The question has-reference to the alleged activities of Prince yon Buelow, Ambassador, of Germany. - • SITUATION IS LIBYA. The situation in Libya, Xoith Africa, is moat disquieting, owing to the extension, of the rebellion and the disloyalty of the native troops, which has bevn encouraged by the withdrawal of Italian troope from the country to the coast. The rebellion gradually ie .approaching the coast, encircling Tripoli iteel/, wheie fortifications are hurriedly being bui:t. The fate of several expeditions into the Interior is unknown. One of three evpeditione was led by Captain Vogelino, whose band of native troops almost entirely deserted him. With ,him is Medical Lieutenant Frari. WANT ITALY Df WAR/ Padua, Italy, February 9.—Over 500 dtslegatca of political clubs and associations and several' senators .and 'members of the Chamber of Deputies who are favourable to 'Italy entering! the war on the. eide of the Allies met here and headed an imposing procession of pereons who laid wreathe on the "patriotic; monuments. At a meeting later, resolution's were passed urging Italy'e intervention in the war. ■