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Show DECLARES ITALY MUST GO FORWARD WITH SWORD By GA2RIELE D'ANNUNZIO. Paris. April 2 Hitherto practiced corruptors have tried to persuade tbe Italian people to seek glory in asqul-sltlon asqul-sltlon and not in conquest, but Italy has decided to go forward, strong In action and fortitude. During fifty years of misfortune and blundering, governed by crafty or inept old men. who were merely the dead ashes of our revolution Italy has not shown the world what she really Is. I dare say she does not herself know what she is. The con quences of Admiral Tegethoff's darmp victory at Lissa weigh cruelly on the I Italian soul, which also was painfully I humiliated by the gift of Venecia. A victory now would mean that Italy It-aly would take possession of the gco graphically and historically Italian Trent ino and Istria. which is not ver big, but Is extraordinarily important strategically. A victory would, perhaps, forever crush the Germans, Sla and Hungarian Hungar-ian attempts al expansion on the Adriatic. The Italian people feel that after a war of liberation and colonization they are about to confront a much sterner test Very soon they will afford af-ford the world the same spectacle as France that of a race stirred by the profoundest instincts, fighting anew for existence and self-preservation |