ITALY AND WAR
HER MOTIVE EXPLAINED AN INDEPENDENT PARTY. SYDNEY, 2nd February. The Italian newspaper Oceania, published in Sydney, says that on the strength of private information from a person occupying a very high official position in Italy, it can declare that Italy will certainly take the field against Aii.stria in April. In fact the first line, numbering a million and a-quarter men, is already under arms. The source of rts information (states the Oceania) loaves no possible iloubt as to its accuracy. " It must be distinctly understood that Italy goes to war not altogether as an ally of England, or of France, or of Russia, but mostly for her own advantage, and the protection, of her own rights, 1 " adds, the paper. "If she fails, bhe fails by herself; if she conquers, she conquers by herself. Thus, while a hflp to the Allies. =he strikes for her ■lo6t proyiuce& in particular, and the
maintenance of her political position in general. She also strikes for the liberation of Europe from the Germanic tyrrany which would be fatal to those ideals of jiberaii&m which Italy shares with all the Western Powers."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 28, 3 February 1915, Page 7
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190ITALY AND WAR Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 28, 3 February 1915, Page 7
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