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Show MLY AIMS TO GET AMERICAN AID I Premier Has Confidence in Scholarly Mind of President Presi-dent Wilson. ROME, Friday, Aug! R ("By the Associated As-sociated Pres.-) Francco Nitti, ihe (Italian premier, in an interview today, to-day, dealt at length with Italy's ef-ft ef-ft rta in ihe war and her ambitions tor the future Particular stress was laid by the premie i OQ Italy's desire for closer economh relations with the United States II.- d. clared that Italy-was Italy-was ripe for exploration by American Ameri-can buslne 1 find no difficulty in speakin plainly ' said Siguor Nitti to the cor-respondent, cor-respondent, "Having been in America Amer-ica and seen the work that America has done in all branches ol human n-IdeavOr, n-IdeavOr, I know something of the great I institutions that she has huiit up. Industrially, In-dustrially, socially and politically. Ii Is therefore with a feeling of great feeling of pleasure ih.it I communicate I to Americans this message as the head of the Italian government "There is no conflict of Interest between be-tween us. We are today two democracies democ-racies striving tor a stiii further rea Illation of tho benefits of free governments.'' gov-ernments.'' Continuing the premier said: "It was in the aim to perpetuate free institution:! that 1 1 n I ihrcv in her I all. No country suffered more from 'the conflict or bore the sacrifice with 'greater will Half a million dead tea tify in silence more stiilcinclv than any other evidence of Italy's sterling I spirit. A million disabled, living in Ipain, constitute another of our offer-lings offer-lings in the cau.e of freedom. Five (and a quarter million men went out to battle out of a 35,000.000 population In 1915. Every available man in Italy-was Italy-was called to the colors. Great Contribution "Had America been called upon to contribute this proportion she would 'have summoned 16,000,000 men to arms. Italy's army was given willingly willing-ly eagerly on the alter of liberty to bear witness that right is more pre 'clous than peace. "Before the war our annual nation-a1 nation-a1 de bt amounted to (3,000,000,000; 'our advent into the war has seen II rise to $16 ooo.ooo.non. in comparison With oilier countries' war debt.--, it might not seem stupendous bu1. when .keeping in mind Italy's resouices. It' represents the greatest sacrifice of I them all Italy s national wealth ag-jgregated ag-jgregated but $20 000,000,000. We sur-rendered sur-rendered all but one fourth (one fifth') of it in the war and had we been called upon for further sacn fices we would willingly have given ven to the limit of our existence. "Italy entered the war, acceptinc all its sorrows and all its dangers. Several Sev-eral times she was on the point of . lallinz. Italy, contrary to the FflfrM of the treaty concluded with th allies, al-lies, remained a long time Lionel against Austria - U ungary, facing one of the greatest armic- of the world, outnumbering out-numbering that of Italy by 100,000 Our forces foucnt with a spirit unhampered unham-pered by hardship or privation, due to love for enduring liberty. There was J Inot one atom of endeavor we with-jheld with-jheld in seeking victory Lons years in the trenches made thei I men of the allied armies returning to ciil life nervous and restless Wei jhae had sporadic cases of unrest in 'Italy but none serious enough to war-rant war-rant undue alarm All attempts at I general strikes have proved to be j great failures. The problem of the high cost of living will be brought neai 'solution when the industrial groups have accepted the need for increased I Output, and as long as this feeling per-i meates the mass of the Italian people i fear of a revolution of Asiatic Bolshe i jvism will be unfounded. "Our war debt of sixteen billion dol-lars dol-lars is being met with fortitude and stoicism that belittles ihe gigantic ef- forts of other countries. Our courage! jin facing our debt, we hope, will be j rewarded by national financial firmness firm-ness which will stand unquestioned. Confidence in Wilson I "The interests of America in Italy must heighten when the great mar- i kets that are offered hore are consld- ' ered These markets are now ready i for exploitation for American business,; 'ready, open handed for all their wares,1 land loneing for commercial intercourse1 which will alike benefit both the Uni-1 Uni-1 ted S;atos and Italy . I "Italy's alms are not imperialistic Jshe must defend her nationality Our' anxiety is still lingering that our poo-' pies in the Adriatic might have the' right to assert their choice to be part and parcel of their motherland We 'are trusting that President Wilsons' 'scholarh and energetic mind will ;s-, sis! us in reaching somo agreement which ill preserve the unity of the Italian people. "We look for America to guarantee : us a region in Asia Minor where we! may secure raw materials and food-i stuffs for our rapidly increasing popu- i lation which within a few years will! aggregate fifty million. "In conclusion I have personal sin-cere sin-cere confidence In President Wilson as the representative of American democracy. de-mocracy. I desire that it be known' the Italian government steers toward' a greater democracy, a greater nation .llit an Impregnable empire of finan-j rial firmness.' Socialistic government, the supreme council on August .". s-, nt to Budapest: a c ommission of four allied generals to enforce the armistice of November. I 1918, and also to meet the heads of the J Rumanian and Serbian armies in order to protect th occupied territory and1 regulate the conditions of occupation.! "On August 6( the supreme council, having heard that the Rumanian authorities au-thorities at Btldapesl proposed to iin-1 pose on the Hungarian government 1 any armistice contrary to the armistice j concluded in November with Hungary j in the name of the allied powers and in , vlloation Of the general allies insofar : as reparations are concerned, advised the Rumanian government that it re- i fused to recognise the right of the Ru- j raanfan generals to conclude an armis-1 tire without the authorization of the allied powers "At the same time the Rumanian 1 government was placed on its guaru againpf taking any action contrary to humanity or to its authority which might be committed by Rumanian troops, the council also deandintc thai the Rumanian gener. 1 In chief be gien orders to conform to the directions of the commission of generals represent ing the conference and acting by delegated dele-gated authority, "The peace conference has not ci received a direct reply from the Rumanian Ru-manian government l learns that the Rumanian generals refuse to comply with the instructions of the allied generals gen-erals and have prevented publication of the telegram addressed by the president presi-dent of the peace conference to the Hungarian government. They also are permit i inc. iheit soldiers to pilfer private pri-vate property and requisitioned, nnd are sending into Rumania, livestock and rolling stock, submitting Budapest to an unnecessarj blockade which Is starving the City. They are destroing the railway lines, in fact they are committing a series of actions which are as much in lolation of the decision of the conference as of the rights of the allied and associated powers, and likewise primarily of humanity "The supreme council learns at the same time that the Socialistic Hungarian Hun-garian government was overthrown by a coup d'etat, its members arrested i and the government replaced by one I having Archduke Joseph at its head. : In view of these fads the conference lis compelled to believe the Rumanian I government determined io defy the conference and to separate herself from the alleid and associated powers. ' 'In event that the conference errs government to deny these statements in this belief, it requests the Rumanian at once, not by words but by actions which can publicly prove that Rumania Ruma-nia accepts and is ready to execute- in good faith the policy decided upon by J the conference." I "American delegates -in ted umigh. that the conference was still without a direct reply from the Rumanian gov . ' ernment." . oo-1 |