THE ITALIAN MOUNTEBANK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14259, 16 November 1920, Page 4

THE ITALIAN MOUNTEBANK.

According to our cables to-day, D’Annunzio, the self-styled “Italian, patriot,” but who is more generally known in Europe as the “Italian mountebank” or “the Mad Poet,” has launched another campaign for seizing territory in the Adriatic zone. It is becoming more apparent every day that Italy is encouraging D’Annunzio in his nefarious work. According to the law Of ci\ilised countries, D’Annunzio is an outlaw; he is simply a bushranger carrying on his operations on d large scalo and murdering all those who cross his path. The time has arrived when the Allies should demand of Italy that D’Annunzio be made an example of. His policy seriously threatens the peace of tho Adriatic, and is in defiance of the matured deliberations of the Allies in allowing the smaller nations to work out their own salvation. The Allies seem to have made such a bungle of the whole of the peace business that their methods are only encouraging freebooters of the type of D’Annunzio to launch their mischievous policies. If Italy is not capable of dealing with D’Annunzio, then she should let Britain and France have a free hand. We venture to predict that in such circumstances D ’Annunzio would be blotted out in less than a week.