Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1912 — ITALY PLANS NEW KINGDOM. [ARTICLE]

ITALY PLANS NEW KINGDOM.

Vienna Hears of Plot .to Unite Archipelago Under the Duke of the Abruzzi. Vienna. —“There is a strange story in circulation to the effect that the reqent assassination of Kopassls Effendi, the prince governor of the island of Samos, and the present agitation in Crete are the result of a scheme concocted in Rome. Another part of the plan is the creation of a kingdom in the archipelago, the ~ crown of which would be offered to the duke of the Abruzzi. Such a state, it is believed, would turn the balance of power in the Mediterranean tn favor of Italy.