ITALIAN FOREIGN POLICY.
(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."7 Sun,—One cannot blow hot and Mow cold." If the Yugo- Slays deny the right of the Italians to annex towns which have a considerable Italian population, how can they justify their own efforts to extirpate the Albanian race and seize its lands contrary to the wish of the whole Albanian nation? Albania was guaranteed independence by the Powers in 1913. But in defiance of this the Serbs (or Yugo-Slays, if they prefer this title) have now massed an army twenty-five kilometres within the Albanian frontier and threaten Scutari, the capital of the country. In every Albanian district occupied by the Serbs since the Berlin Treaty they have pursued the same policy of exterminating the native population either by massacre or expulsion. It is therefore not to be wondered at that the Italians do not wish to expose any Italian populations to a people who are in the habit of making a Slav country by destroying alien population. The Report of the Carnegie Commission in 1913 gives a clear idea of the treatment any annexed aliens may expect. And as that Report clearly ohows, as the worst atrocities are carried out invariably by brigand bands with the deeds of which the Government always declares it has had nothing to do, no safety can be hoped for.—I am.
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