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Show ITALIANS III TO GET COAL j If Rome Is to Be Saved ! From Famine, Millions of Tons Must Be Imported, Im-ported, It Is Reported By Internatienal Newa Service. - NEW YORK, May 11. Four million Italian soldier I now form a bartering ram of I steel which will crush Austria Hungary and aid in bringing about a speedy termination of (he war.- . That is the message the members of the Italian war commission, now in this city, will carry to President Wilson. By Internetienal Newe Servise. WASHINGTON. May 11. The main purpose of the Italian mission to the t'nited State, half of whose members have already reached New York, is not to secure se-cure food, nor yet to net money. Count C'ellerl, Italian ambasaador, announced i today. The purpose of the mtaalon la I to secure coal and the tonnage la ; which to ship It to Italy. Before the war Italy had 10M00 tons of hipp'inir. Today It ha leaa than fo.000 tons, due to the activities of German and Austrian submarines in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. A vigorous campaign ta being conducted con-ducted against the submarines, how-aver, how-aver, tha ambassador said. During tb last month, fourteen submarines have i been sunk or raptured In the Medl-; Medl-; terranean by Italian warships. Up till this time Italy has depended almost entirely npon England for her coal and shipping facilities, Ainbasaa-'dor Ainbasaa-'dor t'elleri explained. With the growth i of the submarine menace, bowerer. , England now Is able only to car for ' her own needa. If Italy is to be saved from a foal famine, the I nlted Slates I I must ship millions and millions of tons 1 to her. The coal supplv of Italr Is ' ! new almost exhausted. The kingdom i j has less thn enough fuel for military I purposes. |