Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1898 — ITALY THREATENS COLOMBIA. [ARTICLE]

ITALY THREATENS COLOMBIA.

Complain* to the United State* of Colombia’* Bad Faith. The Italian Government has called the attention of the Government of the United States to the incorrect attitude of the Government of Colombia and demanded that the latter respect its treaties; otherwise Italy reserves to herself the right to adopt the energetic measures toward Colombia which were recently abandoned in deference to the United States. Advices received at Colon from Bogota, the capital of Colombia, say that all relations between Colombia and Italy have been severed owing to the action of the Italian Government in the Cerruti affair, which the Colombian officials considered arbitrary and in violation of the treaty of 1892, which was thereby annulled.