Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-29 | Page 1 | Says England Coerced Italy

SAYS ENGLAND r COERCED ITALY Declaration of War Against S jk dt Germany by Rome Ronze Is Discussed Discussed Discussed Dis Dis- cussed by Chancellor Berlin Sept Thu Tho Tho g conS convened con eon S f today and the Imperial chancellor chancel chancel- lor br Dr von Bethmann delivered I fred ered his eagerly awaited speech He Begun by outlining the tho events which 5 led ed d up to tho the Italian and antI Rumanian J of ot war He recalled that the German Getman ambassador had bad left Rome nome after atter Italy's declaration of or war a against f Hungary and that Germany German had hadS S to announced that that the thc Italians would find findl oj German troops fighting with their Aust Aus- Aus l t r tto comrades on the Italian ItalianI I frontier Antler Ho lie continued I Thus a state of or war practically existed ex ox- SI 1 S isted sted I hut a formal Cormal declaration of or war r- r did aid not como come till later Italy Haly apparently apparent apparent- ly y was was afraid of the consequences which t a would suffer after the war in regard re- re 1 Bard gard to her economic relations with us On tho the other hand Rome preferred t to 0 lay Jay the blame for fer tho the declaration at atC atUr C our Ur door But for us there was no rca rca- j 8 on n to pay pay Italy's game same Our tactics t rero 7 Justified by tho the Interrupted cor efI c- c cf- cf I orts or she he entente powers to cause 1 V to tod diclaro war var 0 or rn md ro 10 than a year the tho Italian resisted Finally the tho meas- meas 1 oJ Ures tes Which En England Ingland employs with quay against neutrals and ander f er lf allies we wee e too strong Italy's warp war- war p ro re depend depend- upon coal and 0 mortey Ie Finally she aho had to toe tovo toJ J vo e Vein in V The n certainly was vms brought IHu ht out by Dri British Ush coercion although llan hop s jn n regard to tho Balkans r o 0 exercIsed Influence