| Show ITALY TO LIMIT DOMINATION Can Gain No Advantage by Undue Expansion Expansion Ex- Ex on Eastern Shores of Adriatic Declares Writer It Is of course evident that Italy luis no advantage to gain from an undue undue un un- due expansion of her territorial holdIngs holdings holdings hold hold- ings on the eastern shores hores of the tine Adriatic Ad Ad- Guglielmo Ferrero writes In the Atlantic Here the Italian population lives hives only on the con coast st st. or near It and ninth for tor this reason Italy cannot spread her domination far Into the interior without incurring the risk of or coming Into serious and severe conflict with the subject Slavic population or with those Slavic states which will he be in a position to Intervene in their defense Italian mastery of the eastern coast would woul therefore be limited to a u thin littoral ll strip of land and amI one need not be he a a great strategist to understand what a disadvantage anta c It would be he for Ital Italy to have to defend a n lon long line of frontier a few dozen kilometers from the coast behind which would lie a avast avast vast mst hinterland occupied by people seething with discontent at nt being cut cutoff cutoff off oIL from the time sea If Ital Italy then does not wish to become become be be- come In involved In long and arduous wars for the conquest of this hinterland hinterland hinter hinter- land her purposes will be best hest served by reducing to a minimum her territorial terri tern tonal annexation on the further shore of time the Adriatic J 1 r |
