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Show THE TRENT! WHICH ITALY IS SEEK! The lands that Italy wants are, first, the Trentlno, and second, Gor-itz, Gor-itz, not to mention other ambitions. The region stretching widely about the city of Trent is the Trentlno More than nine-tenths of the people of this region speak Italian, as do also most of the people of Gorltz. Why should not Italians wish to unite those regions to tho mother country? Look at a map of Italy. You will note that the Trentlno forms a wedge, as if It wore driven through the northern north-ern border, the "Trentino Salient," as military men call it. This wedge is of distinct strategic value to Austria. Hence, to the reason of language is added another tho military reason-to reason-to make Italy want it Tho wedge is mountainous and therefore strategically strategic-ally Is doubly valuable. With Austria Aus-tria commanding theso mountains, Italy is at her mercy. This has already al-ready been proved in tho present war. A machine gun can guard a whole pass. But if Italy conquers the Tren-tino Tren-tino sho would find tho mountain passes along the northern border of that province practically an east-and-west wall. The ono element of danger In the Trentino, then, would be the valley of the Adige, which forms a north-to-south opening. Hence some Italian Jingoes, desiring even a still more ideally strategic frontier, have even dared to covet further to tho north a wholly German-speaking region, as great In extont as is the Trentlno, so that tho Italian northern boundary might rest on tho summits of the Alpine Al-pine main rlde. As may be surmised from tho mountainous character of tho Trentlno, Tren-tlno, most of the people aro engaged in pastoral pursuits. Agriculture, nevertheless, holds an important place. There are also certain industries, indus-tries, notably silk-spinning. 'Milan is an appropriate starting place for a journey through the lands for tho possession of which Italy Is now fighting Austria. For It was at Milan that tho first of the fivo wars between Italy and Austria broke out. Milan was then Austrian thn nnftoi of tho kingdom of Lombardy and Venetla, subject to Hapsburg rule. As in many other cities throughout Europo in that great year of revolution, revolu-tion, Vi8, so in Milan there was rebellion. re-bellion. It had far-reaching waves, arousing even -Naples and Sicily against the Bourbons, and especially causing the peoples of central Italy to rlso against their rulers. The source of all this activity came from Piedmont, and Charles Albert, the Piedmontese king, put himself at thc head of a movement which, having as its first main object deliverance from the Austrian yoko later became irresistibly irre-sistibly a movement to unito Italy. Tho short war of 1848 was succeeded by tho brief struggle of 1849, and that, ton , years later, by the still greater war which liberated Lombardy. Lom-bardy. In 1866 occurred the war which liberated Venotia, and the present pre-sent conflict may result in the liberation liber-ation of tho Trentino. |