ITALY'S NEUTRALITY.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13594, 8 October 1914, Page 5

ITALY'S NEUTRALITY.

A COMPROMISING ACT.

ROUMANIAN SUBMARINE TAKEN

FROM SPEZZIA

Rome, Oct. 6

A captain of the Naval Reserve 3 nam\ed Belloni, made off with a submarine built at Spezzia for Roximania. The submarine was undergoing trials, with only a few -workmen on board. | Captain Belloni, in a letter to the | shipbuilders, states that the submarine must participate in the war. The. workmen were not aware of his project, and lie had no meeting or ar-! rangement with any person or authority ■, to deliver tho vessel. He has conveyed the submarine to Corsica or France. In a later message, Italy notifies belligerents that the submarine has.disappeared, presumably to join the Russian fleet, notwithstanding that the builders of the vessel were notified that it must not be delivered owing to Italy's neutrality.

Captain Belloni wrote to the authorities stating that he was aware the act was a breach of neutrality.

Sixty thousand Italians presented a manifesto to the Government begging for help against the Austrians, and declaring that the number of arrests on suspicion was assuming unbearable proportions.

Distressing stories told by fugitives are raising popular passion.