The Italian Government's important declaration in favour of the Southern
Slays was published in the Times of Friday week. Italy, it runs, " regards the movement of the Southern Slav peoples for the conquest of their independence and for their constitution into a free State as corresponding to the principles for which the Entente is fighting, and also to the aims of a just and lasting peace." Italy's Allies can heartily agree with this statement, which signifies the end of all those racial misunderstandings between Italians and Slays that Austria encouraged in her own interests. The promi- nence given in an Italian official bulletin this week to the bravery of a Southern Slav detachment defending an Italian mountain post against an Austrian attack shows that the reconciliation is already yielding good results. Italy and her future neighbour, the Southern Slav State, will be natural allies against the German and the Magyar.
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