Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Trouble Over Tunis. [ARTICLE]

Trouble Over Tunis.

A new and serious subject of conflict las arisen between France and Italy. Twenty-six years ago the latter con■luded with the bey of Tunis an adantageous treaty, renewable at the xpiratlon of twenty-seven years, uness denounced twelve months In adzanee by one or the other of the contacting parties. Since then Tunis has tecome a feudatory State of France, n so far that she is subject to a French protectorate and that the French are in ontrol of the foreign relations of the 'ey. It is by virtue of this control that ’rance has now intimated to Italy her itentlon of denouncing the treaty, her bject being to bring the beylik within lie sphere of the Gallic customs sysem. Italy, which not only possesses ast interests in Tunis, but lias also ■veral hundred thousand of its sub■cts settled there, has all along proofed against France’s occupation of le country much in the same way hat France protests against the presnce of the English in Egypt. The ispute in connection with the denunatton of the treaty may possibly ring matters to a crisis.—New York ' ribune.