UNITED ITALY.
September 20fch is a date, of deep import to our Italian allies. That day in' 1870 saw the end of the struggle between the kingdom and .the Vatican, the.annexation of the Papal Stat-es, and the entry |of the royal troops into Rome. The emancipation of Italy was complete, though it, was not until June 2nd of the following year that King Victor Emmanuel 11. made his triumphal entry into the capital of Italy. To-day Italians at home and throughout the world will celebrate the forty-eighth anniversary of the achievement of United Italy, and the occasion will be viewed with sympathetic interest by all Allied nations. The best anniversary greeting.we can convey to our Italian fellow-citizens and their-countrymen generally is that on September 20th next year we shall bo able to join with them in celebrating not only the union of.their country, but the rounding of its frontiers by the inclusion of Italia Irredenta as one of the fruits of a righteous peace. . i
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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14871, 20 September 1918, Page 4
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165UNITED ITALY. Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14871, 20 September 1918, Page 4
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