PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 May 1915, Page 5

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

ROME, May 23. The Senate, by 262 votes to 2, adopted Signor Salandra's Bill. There was intense enthusiasm, Senators frequently rising en masse and cheering , the King and the army. It was pointed out that the 20th was the anniversary of Italy's entrance into the Triple Alliance. The Austrian authorities sent back the Italian mails from Udine, and Irave torn up the railways and stopped -all communication with Italy. The Pope nersonally subscribed 100,000 francs (£4000) to the Italian war fund, and allocated a million francs (£40 a ooo> to Italian victims of the -war. Messages from Verona state that Austrian troops on several frontier posts in the Tyrol have been withdrawn within the fortified zone, destroying telegraphs, telephones, and electric works. It is understood the Italian Ambassadors at Berlin and Vienna leave on Saturday, when Prince yon Bulow goes to Berlin. A dozen Austrian and German steamers have been interned at Genoa 6ince August, and some have since arrived. NEW YORK, May 23. A Havas Agency despatch from Rome states that King Emmanuel has declared a mobilisation on land and 6ea.