D'ANNUNZIO'S CALL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13540, 18 November 1914, Page 4

D'ANNUNZIO'S CALL.

ELOQUENT „PLE A FOR ITALY'S IXTERVENTION. PARIS, Oct. 3. An eloquent plea,. in favor of' the immediate entry of Jtaly . into the war at the side -of the AUTed-J Powers is 4 made m a. ,iong-; article winch * tho Journal publishes to-day by Signer Gabriele d'Arihunzio, the poet, who has made [his home m France for some years past, and has*€ome to stay m Paris for the period of "the war. • "For Italy," ho says, "this is nqt simply a question of the re-conquest of the full power of breathing, by regaining the health of her left lung. For Italy, as for France, as for our separated brothel's of Trajan Dacia, as for every nation of Mediterranean culture, it is a question of waging a supreme combat against the imminent menace of slavery and extermiination. • ."This war. is- not- a simple, conflict of intereste,- which may be transitory and various^ . or • even, illusory. It is something far deeper,^abolisbilaig. the, lapse of time and the development oij mankind by its bestial and primoruial character. It is. a struggle of races, an opposition of irreconcilable powers,., a trial of breeds which the enemies of the Latin name are carrying oh according to the ihost ancient law ,q£ violence, :.'." ' „.; "By aii action more brilliant,", he fcbncludes, "Italy' deserves ;"to- enter, with her sturdy horses of the Maremma and her splendiid " banners flung wide, - into the imperial cities; when' the- triumph of the nations over this horde comes to be celebrated. .;,Every rda-y that: passes is a day of eternal glory lost."