Oct. 2.
Tae prevailing emotion with which by the majority of people the declaration of war between Italy and Turkey was received was, perhaps, som-thing akin to bewilderment. For considerably more than two months the world has preparing itself for the pos-~ sibility of war, bat in a totally different direction. In something ander two weeks the quarrel in Tripoli, long smouldering bat until recently without outward manifest tation that bad attracted general attention, has flared up into open conflict, and the whole mental orientation of Europe must be wrenched round into new channels. The causes of that quarrel, from the Italian point of view, are amply detailed els here in these calamus.
Briefly, th history of Tripoli resolves itself into a contest of Italian enterprise versus Turkish obstraction, culminating in a situation which had long threatened to become unbearable: and if Italy was to act, the time of year in the exposed ports of Tripoli, not less than the most elementary prin ples of success, demanded that si should act quickly. So far as the antagonists themselves are concerned, Italy has everything in her favour. Whatever progress may have been made in the Tarkish navy under the guidance of British advice, it cannot pretend to com-peto with the Italian; and Admiral is thus provided with an-
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