THE ITALIAN WAR.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 5

THE ITALIAN WAR.

SUCCESSFUL TRANSPORT.

TREATY WITH BRITAIN

(Received April 17, 9.15 p.m.)

Rome, April 17

Baron Sonnino, in the Chamber of Deputies, said that the Italian Navy, using a huudred vessels, carried t'o,ooo tons of food "to help the Serbian Army. Including women, children, refugees and Austrian prisoners, the Italians transported 250,000 persons ove» >eas, despite submarine attacks.

Baron Sonnino added that Italy had recently concluded a treaty with. Britain a-ssuring equal treatment of their nationals. as compared with foreign nationals, Italy agreeing to the abolition of the Capitulations in Egypt and the transformation of the mixed tribunals there.