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Show POET D'ANNUNZIO WELCOMES AMERICA INTO WORLD-WAR UOMK. via Puris, April 7. Gabriele d 'A rni un 7io, tho 1 t.ilirui poet, who is now nervine; ;it the front as a captain in tho jivi;;! ion oorps, has isurl the follow fol-low in u st at onion t in con n or t ton tvith Anioi tea "s ontranoo into the war: Tho proup of stars on the creat ivpuhlicati banner has btvome a -niif-tolla! ton, a propitious siKfn to sailors nrmod nnl unarmed and a spiritual token for all nations fiht-i'ii fiht-i'ii in a righteous war. HmIv salutes tho fdorious spirit which has led the people of too American union to re-onntirm re-onntirm and ret-en-l their paet with liberty. Italy, alone among: the allied nations na-tions having tho possibility to avoid war and remain an inert spectator, arose freely in arms, not so much for tho reconquest of her heritage as for the sahation of all that which, in the centuries born of Kome, has represented the nobleness of free men. She armed herself as t he Anifri'-.Tn nrttMjn dues .u-;w, fur an id t'.-il r;iviii and h'T'ji ' ';i;i:in. II'T HponT;in-ou- :o't, lik- tint a'.i.fV."i tK-iav ijv t.i people of (ic,,ri' V;i-iiintoii, ban the b--au' v or ritire oil ere' i to t lie ho pea of n k i nd. In thin hope the A Ni.-ri :.n nation from north, soul li. ea.-T. and west, ynx-s todav to offer its ar.-umu-lated trea-iire, a-d; nowledinu in our cause the finest eause for whh'h men have ever fou'ljt. April 1-4 is the anniversary of Lincoln's dentil, f-'min his Mepuhdire i.-sued the yrand word v, hi eii hi.H paired lips pronounced pro-nounced in the eemeterv uf .li'ttv biii, on soil sanctified by the blood i f combatants. Aain we le-ar I a lie ol n 'h irc At prophecy; This ration, under (iod, sliall have a iii'w birth of freedom. ' ' |