ITALY TAKES UP ARMS AGAINST AUSTRIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 May 1915, Page 8

ITALY TAKES UP ARMS AGAINST AUSTRIA.

Per Press Association. —Extraordinary

(Received May 24, 12.10 p.m.)

ROME, May 23

Official. —Italy has declared war with

Austria, beginning on Monday

NO SEPARATE PEACE

ITALY JOINS IN ALLIES' AGREE-

MENT

ENTHUSIASM THROUGHOUT THE

COUNTRY.

BX CA.BLV-BBESB ASSOCIATIOK—COPYRIGHT

(Received May 24, 12.30 p.m. V

ROME, May 23

Italy will adhere to the Allies' agree ment not to conclude a separate peac^

Austrian soldiers dynamited ihe Dante monument at Trent.

Many anti-Austrian" demonstrations have occurred in Dalmatia.

The Italian mobilisation comprised men from twenty to thirty-nine years of age. The decree was hailed with tremendous enthusiasm throughout the oountry.

An Austrian patrol crossed the frontier, but Italian chasseurs vigorously attacked and pursued the Si.