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Show 'IS ITALY ABOUT TO DECLARE WAR" 0 ' A message from Rome conveys fur-8. fur-8. ther evidence of ltnly's close approach lltO war. Premier Salandra is quoted as Maying tbat Italian soldiers will; ( be tbe first to be sacrificed and Ital- 1 ians will see (he destiny of their I country accomplished. The real mean mc of the declaration Is somewhat ObSCUred, although thf tenor Of it unmistakably is war, as there is only one way by which Italy Is to SCCOm-i SCCOm-i pllsb SO-) r.it desttnj and that is ' hy joining the allies Turkey has first call on derm any, it the Kaiser wins, and the Suitan'fl interests are in dire, di-re, i conflict with the enlurping of , Italy's influence in the Mediterranean. Had the Turks not formed an alll- a nee with the Teutons, the Italians might have found In Germany a profitable prof-itable friend, and still there is that intense hatred for Austria, growing out of the old conquest of Italian provinces, which forbids Italy 10 join ; with that power The Italian army equipped for Immediate Im-mediate son ice is estimated at one million me.i. the cavalry of which has ' no superior in Europe Were such S force thrown Into the conflict. Aus-trlo-Hungary would be compelled to draw off a very big percentage of iroops now righting with Germans pgninM the fussians. an Italy's first move would be an invasion of the oid Italian provinces and a direct march north through the comparatively compara-tively narrow strip of country separating sep-arating Italy and Germany. No phase rrting to the German military lead-; lead-; ers than an Italian campaign launched j against southern Germany through Austria. |