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Show uu MILITARY BLUNDERS OF THE ALLIES The Standard analyzed the Italian situation when we stated that the weakness was due to the absence of close co-operation on the part of the allies. At the last moment the United Unit-ed States is to send coal and Iron supplies sup-plies to Italy, and Great Britain and France are to forward guns and ammunition. am-munition. This failure to unify the forces fighting the central powers Is something some-thing intolerable. Why great military minds, seeing this danger, have not proceeded to correct the samo is inexplicable. in-explicable. France should be as deeply concerned con-cerned in making the Italian front impregnable, im-pregnable, as the United States is solicitous so-licitous over the strength of the lines at Verdun, in the Champagne and In Flanders. This lesson from the Isonzo should force the allies to accept a commander-in-chief of all the forces in the field, whether French, British, Italian, Russian or American. Sometime ago it was said Joffre was to perform that task, hut the Italian rtisaKlfr nrfti-oa that Cadorna has been left to his own resources and Italy's appeals for help have been in part ignored. , A dispatch from Washington dis closes an eleventh-hour resolve to answer an-swer Italy's cry for help. Export restrictions are to be waived by the American government in forwarding for-warding supplies to Italy to aid in meetlngthe Austro-German invasions. The Italian government, It was made known today, will be permitted to take the kind of materials it needs most to the limit of its tonnage capacity regardless re-gardless of prospective shortages here. The military and political situations In Italy and the aid America will render weor gone over at a conference yesterday yes-terday between Secretary Lansing and Count dl Cellero, the Italian ambassador. ambassa-dor. Approximately 100,000 tons of shipping ship-ping has been promised Italy by the shipping board. Four vessels already have been turned over and tho others will be delivered as fast as they aro available. The shortage of ships Is so serious, however, that the shipping j board -has to pick -them up as It can ,find them and the whole amount of tnnage promised, wo are told, may not bo availablo under thirty days. Italy's greatest need is coal and, next, steel for her munitions factories. Sho hns been drawing on UiIb country for about 100,000 tons of coal a month but, now that English coal is harder to obtain, her requirements from tho United States will approach 400,000 tons monthly. The country starts the winter, according to Italian officials, fully 2,000,000 tons of coal short. Tho shipping tho United States !b able to release will bo totally inadequate inade-quate to moot the demand for coal and to carry food and munitions. It is' likoly, it was said, that the Italians will obtain a large amount of Spanish tonnage to supplement the American ships nnd will put Into trans-Atlantic scrvico as many of their own shlpB as possible. 1 The Standard, reading betweon the lines of tho announcement from Washington, Wash-ington, finds that the U-boats in their destructive work, havo reduced tho available shipping to the danger point, and tho United States, in attempting to relievo Italy must do so at the ox-pense ox-pense of tho .expeditionary forces now moving from our shores to France. The war is ontering on a serious stage, calling for greater sacrifices oc the part of the people of tho United States. . rr |