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Show 500,000 ITALIANS LOST INTHE WAR Sacrifices Urged as Claim for Restitution of Territory. PARTS, Dec. 21 (By the Associated Press). Five hundred thousand Italians Ital-ians lost their lives in the war. Of this number 200,000 wcro killed in action. ac-tion. This statement wan luadu to tlio cor-roaiioudeiit cor-roaiioudeiit today by Salvatore Barzilai, former iiieiuber uf the Italian cabinet, -who areompanied King Victor Emmanuel Emman-uel to Paris, in explaining Italy's sac-; sac-; rifio.es and her claim to territories pre-! pre-! viously held by the enemy Siftnor Bar-zilui Bar-zilui said : "On t )io evo of the peace conference, where Jtaly must claim tho territories due her for reasons of nationality, it is t . well the world tdiould know the sacri- fieos unstained by Jier. All Italians ! trust America as an impartial judc. "Italy lost f00,000 'dead. To those actually killed in battle must bo added " 300,000 who died of .disease, particular-i particular-i lv malaria, contracted in Albania, i Tdacedonia and along the l'iavc. The I Italians severely wounded numbered ! 300,001), while 500,000 of tho 5,000,000 ! called to the colors were taken prisoner. pris-oner. ' ' The enormity of her sacrifices makes Italy more exacting in demawl- , iug r-Kt itiition of the regions nloug the eastern Adriatic, which Austria oppressed op-pressed for a century and attempted to do nationalize, and also places her in tho vanguard of tho movement to prevent pre-vent future wars. Having once obtained ob-tained what you might call tho doors i to her own house, I taly adheres to a league of nations, having as a corollary ! freedom of the seas. " A league of nations must have as a fundamental nucleus the entente countries coun-tries and America, to which the others may join later. A central body, constituting con-stituting tho supreme court of tho ! loftguo, must have legislative power limited to international affairs, judicial ju-dicial .power for the application of its rules, and executive power to enforce its decisions, such court going so far as a financial and economic, boycott of any country resisting its decisions. It I must also have at its disposal an international in-ternational force to prevent any country coun-try from breaking the peace. All this i implies the abolition of secret treaties and secret diplomacy and the abolition of armaments. ' ' I |