1
The Kaiser is one of the largest shareholders in the great mercury mines of Italy.
2
Cf. L’Invasione tedesca in Italia. Ezio M. Gray. Firenze.
4
Cf. L’Invasione tedesca in Italia, pp. 118, 119.
7
An instructive article on the subject by Mr. Moreton Frewen appeared in the Nineteenth Century of February, 1916.
8
This secret information bureau is everywhere a potent engine of attack in German hands. It renders deliberate libellers and defamers immune against the action of the law. The victims feel the effects but cannot point to the cause. The fiches, as the certificates are called, are couched in conventional terms and bear no signature. In the case of persons whom the bank desires to ruin, these documents are sentences of commercial death.
9
Cf. Preziosi, La Germania a la Conquista dell’ Italia, p. 57 fol.
10
L’Invasione tedesca, p. 147.
11
L’Invasione tedesca in Italia, p. 149.
13
It is an American Company for the sale of certain machines. The Russian organ mentions all the names. For my purpose this is unnecessary. The curious may find them in the Novoye Vremya of 5/18 August, 1915.
14
Novoye Vremya, 5/18 July, 1916.
15
Their names are Johann Assman and Rudolf Meyer. Cf. Novoye Vremya, 11/24 August, 1915.
16
Rassegna Contemporanea.
17
L’Invasione tedesca in Italia, p. 171.
19
Cf. L’Idea Nazionale. The words “even now” refer to November 22, 1915, and may be equally true to-day.
20
Felix Deutsch, Karl Zander, Otto Joel, Karl von Siemens, Walter Boveri, Karl Kapp, etc.
21
L’Idea Nazionale, September 8, 1915.
23
L’Idea Nazionale, November 8, 1915.
24
Giornale d’Italia, November 17, 1915.
25
Cf. Preziosi, La Germania a la Conquista dell’ Italia, p. 66.
27
Signor Preziosi gives the names of those agents as MM. Volpi, Bertolini and Nogara (op. cit., p. 71).
28
Professor Bondi, ex-Questor of Milan.
29
Rivelazioni postume alle Memorie di un questore, 1913. Cf. Preziosi, La Germania a la Conquista dell’ Italia, p. 75 ff.
33
One square verst is equal to 0·44 square mile.
34
Cf. Novoye Vremya, October 5, 1914.
35
His name is Dr. Fritz Wertheimer. His writings are to be found in various periodicals. The essay from which these data are taken was published in the Frankfurter Zeitung, January 8, 1916.
36
Novoye Vremya, July 2, 1915.
37
By a law sanctioned by the Tsar, in February 1915, the German Colonists of Southern and Western Russia were obliged to sell their land to Russian subjects, and they received ten months’ grace for the purpose.
38
Cf. Contemporary Review, February 1911.
39
Cf. Duma debates of August 1914.
40
Cf. Novoye Vremya, August 17, 1915.
