Italy's Ambitions.
.PRESS" TAKING 'STRONG GROUND AGAINST THE'COLONIAL POLICY. '-> 4 - "'-' .KOiuE, August 5. Tlie announcement that two more battleships, the Liguria and Carlo Alberto, will sail for China before the 15th. inst., has had the effect of placing, the qudstidnldf ISanmuri Bay once more on the tapis. Despite official assurances., thafeitheser.warihips, are 'piily- r sent out.in-' repfeco theb-MSr^ov. ; P6lo:^Md'-JAmefigb ■', Ves.p'Jnec% ifciis tH& • of be: falldpartieS q --'tSe - alarmed ;lat tlie , r prpspept-"'Of-- r ppspible-fCQ'mp'licationsiin'tlret Ear J East?*" r n TJiCLpmbajrd .representing'shS", most, practical and industrial-ypartror tire-: population,- are* '-"especially-; bittern in-thern attacks *32gsinstrjthe - -"-Chinese rnaadme'ss >• as thejr. calloitg:! and: th^oßoma-n,'Press isv. nofr behindhand in. denpiuioing > titer: aim:- 6 Jess\and- dangerous-pbiiey-of ttferGovej n-~ jaient'. The "£jecolp'- of Milan -voices the gene- ' rai.opMion-in. these- words: r "Every; Italian. .'■ gifted; with;" a grain ' of. commonsens© cannot.- but -support the - following - 'programme,-;.Let T : us drop- China y - where /'we'Jiavd. no business .whateyer, let us drop which is "a" constant 'drains on ■ our; and let us apply all bur energies, all the work and money squandered on fruitless colonial ventures, to the <~ : - improvement of Italy and to tho cultivation of our own deserts."
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1440, 5 October 1899, Page 12
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