We have dealt elsewhere with the Italian crisis. As we
write on Thursday evening the declaration of war has not yet actually taken place. All the arrangements, however, have been made for the diplomatic rupture. It is a curious proof of how little the world is now able to trust to German courtesy, or even humanity, that the trains for the two Ambas- sadors will not be allowed to move until the trains conveying tack the Italian Ambassadors from Berlin and Vienna are at the frontier. This means, of course, that the Italians fear the kind of treatment which was accorded at the beginning of the war to the Russian and French Ambassadors. Italy has Baked the 'United States to take charge of her diplomatic interests, while Germany, owing, it is said, to the feeling caused by the sinking of the 'Lusitama,' will ask Switzerland to act for her.
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