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Show I ITALIAN ARMY INTACTFOR TIME! HOME, Saturday, Dec. U Duringl the war the Italian army lost 15,000 officers of-ficers killed, the minister of war dc-' clared in the senate today. More , than 30,000 officers were wounded seriously. Premier Orlando told the senate that Italy was not in a position to demobilize demobi-lize a single man and that all war material ma-terial should bo kept intact. The immediate im-mediate difficulties to be surmounted, he said, had not diminished but had increased. - He added that reparation for damages dam-ages was a question outside discussion. discus-sion. President Wilson's, principles, he continued, excluded indemnity in the technical sense of the w6rd but doubc-less doubc-less Italy would adopt the same policy regarding reparations as tho other Allies. Al-lies. A commission had been appointed appoint-ed to establish Italy's damages. Italy, the minister General Zupclli continued, had more men under arms proportionate to population than anv other nation. The war, he said, had cost Italy 54,000,000,000 lire. The public debt at the end of October was 64,000,000,000 |