GERMANY AND ITALY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3410, 29 December 1911, Page 5

GERMANY AND ITALY.

' A GROWING BREACH. ■

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] (Received Dec. 28, 9.40 p.m.) BERLIN, Deo. 28. y Serious concern is manifested at the Italians’ growing animosity to everything German. Transaction of business is described to- bo daily more difficult. The “Berliner Tageblatt” opposes the suggestion of a German boycott of Italy and of Italian goods, arguing that it would be unwise to widen the breach between'the two countries. WAR UP TO DATE“Italy has got a nice handful,” writes Mr. McCullaghi, thei “Westminster’s” correspondent lately in Tripoli. “Like Dead Sea; fruit, Tripoli has turned to dust and ashes in her grasp. She wanted to annex territory. She has annexed sand, poverty, rags 1 , misery, cholera. and corruption.” “We deeply regret to see, from l an Italian despatch, that airmen of the invading force in the Tripolitaine have been dropping bombs into one of the Arab camps,” says the “Guardian.” “This new and most sinister departure in the history of war has been long foreiseen. but the conscience of humanity has 'not been sufficiently formed 1 on the subject to express itself in a general, law.”

“The butcheries in Tripoli are a terrible business..’Far more shocking to my mind!, however, is , the assumption which scorns to underlie all the comments upon them—even the most indignant—that -there may be some shadow of justification for them in overpowering military exigency, and that at all events they have the Law of War on their side,” writes Mr. Lucien Wolf in the “Nation.” “This assumption., which even Mr. Trevelyan seems to share, is little less than an atrocity in itself, and it ought not to be allowed to pass without protest.”