: The San Francisco Sunday Call ITALY AND TURKEY WAR BECAUSE OF AN ANCIENT LOVE AFFAIR &»»%--M^rW Jilted Dido S **v^ k mWkW MsLw^ m. mm. ' 'inn X FOR 300CWE»R5- ; "Aeneas* love making until Augustus . city,*- no longer Carthage"""* ™tHE . ™ rebuilt the . Mediterranean-»»—^- then, Junonia. ; a Roman icity .? but with/- - ******** scarcely a memento; of , the Phoeni- • 1- I cian occupation. ;?'But^ the S. animosity was not dead, |norswas Dido's empire nlw& ? to; digest its humility in peace. ?Gen- nATIOnS Have a Nations eerlc the Vandal established bar- ' ?.'barian empire theref in 45^9 A.|D. Has- san, the? Saracen herald-of ; the Mos- lems, wiped out the last ; traces of the Each city in 647..- Before' him, Belisarius, S.vFoiiCHT Justinian, ? the general of the forces -of paid* Carthage?a" visit in 533, remod- ... ? eled it with the sword and torch and proudly? naihed it .Tustiniana. Carthage Other or -"was dead, but Southern Europe was «, cot done with Northern Africa. Just . as Hannibal : has | entered;- Spain ; when Rome was a military power and Tripoli's threatened ?to ? Africanize • Europe, so ihe ? wildI men of| North * Africa, fired i with the ? zeal I**"of Moslemlsm. :**ans,'jLj'blans, Semites of many tribes, the = people of Dido and Aeneas were myths, the military power of Rome and , the: J commercial^ prestige of::Carthage •were gone, but the ancient animosity had vonly taken on a new ; garment ; and the same races selected much the same \u25a0?»eoil%tb fight out their differences. ?: "Then"' the same Ferdinand with whom .Columbus? dealt, as "= king of Sicily and also -of Aragon, took up the feud and -'*' not only drove the Moors past Gibral- "? tar but ? followed ;>in?; the ;, time worn ? tracks of | Hannibal along \u25a0 northern Africa? seizing' Moslem strongholds and \u25a0lestablishing the prestige of the Latin :as far east as the "present city of.Trip- ?:oli. He occupied the city itself about ?151 ?a:ID:'-;; Carthage was; no longer ? worth taking, but Tripoli was simply a suburb of Carthage in her prosperous days, and? Ferdinand *was working in the old tramping ground of the Sciplos, : of?Genseric, off Belisarius and | all th"3taw others who came ? across ! the seas from* - the north like Aeneas. \u0084 -..? Close upon his trail came the Knights of St. JOhn, offspring ofithe ;crusaders, ?- withythe -ecclesiastical? power of * Rome " blazoned on their shields and banners. That was about- 1530 A. D., and then *:came the Interlopers, the Turks, who ? knew nothing of ' the • old trouble at all, but just swept in from Tartary \u25a0 like so many wolves, ravenous and overwhelm- ing:; \u0084 ... . ?v Perhaps there were no- - further- Inva- sions or counter Invasions worth re- r cording up to the last century, ; when all .«j Europe began pushing across the Mcd- I iterranean —Spain into Morocco, France * into Algiers ' and t Italy into Tripoli. But for a time immediately before that ; ; < movement began? north Africa had its ;on the ; seas ?- : and ?/ fattened yon' the fling again. * Who has not heard of the iwealth of Sicily» where Carthage ruled Barbary pirates? : Where the merchant 1 and traded. But they drove him out ships of the old Carthage coasted and and he returned to his native iEpirus lorded -it^ over :the puny fleets of all prophesying the fsplendid § struggle be- other nations, dictating how often Rome tween. Rome and /his seafaring ene- should ; "wash * her hands In the sea," mies. Perhaps Pyrrhus was not fully the pirates Tunis arid? Tripoli made avenged by the event which followed, lif^"" hideous for' the seamen of the but at any rate, If his shade still hov- northern "shores? and exacted ? tribute ers In Epirus, he had the satisfaction the of all nations. ,Even s \ifrom merchants of seeing an fItalian war vessel^sehd the United States,?in? Its Infancy, had one of the Tripoli squadron to the bot- with wayward ; sons ! to struggle the of tom and drive two ashore on his own old Carthage, which only shows how Epirus »little?more than a .month? ago." :modern and, at the "same, time, how Not only do the events repeat them- rusty and moth eaten with age is the selves in this unending struggle, but s feud. . . • tire setting is the same. *?/// ?'-;>/;?*;.,• "= now hangs by a. bare began £?' And Italy ; claw- i.fThe?; first great war about hold upon the rim of Tripoli, ', and : ths 275 B. C. aand lasted J for twenty-three are?crowding? : desert men in - from the years. : Carthage had wealth, but- at wastes of all. north Africa, fanatical the ; end; Carthage paid jin tribute most hate, push and; with the old to /the"Roman of what Rome left her saw Sar- eagle sea again. story of • dinia and Corsica garrisoned with the Into the The ';this war without "; end does *'- not begin legionaries. Then Hamilcar of > Car-; diplomatic phrases thage, C„ with the ;"bf?the in 236 B. attacked Rome Russo-Turkish treaty, but Is lost in the ;myths and legends which preceded his- "tory? It has.been Rome against Tripoli, ~B* •bary? Justiniana, Junonia, Carthage, |Ka't Hadisha and "ByrsarNames change and rulers change. The fates have not favored Africa in the strugr- but she and: filling"Numidians and Carthage-? ".riople buzzed like hive with con- priest * y Acerbas'. had great' 3'a;-, of'Hercules. ; * Rodney Y. Gilbert sternation and ;?a?:few?; torpedo boats wealth and when jDido's .;* brother. nians alike with the spirit of revenge upon is a virus in some love ;af- arid transports were sent Vto **Africa, Pygmalion, killed .him, she seized and a cordial destestation" for the peo- following of ; fairs especially in a dismal love ?only to go down under /"-the"? guns? of ;; the horde and with a ples across the sea. ?; ? \u0084;";.,-- faithful Tyrians put out upon the Medi- affair, be- . Admiral Aubrey—Sclpio Africanus the .which? makes itself felt --? This Is an .old? time .romance, dead second. It took the Romans 17 days terranean and hunted new .quarters. *At ; third Hiorbus, king of the THEREyond the . .traditional "and 2,500 ,*\u25a0-tojtfurn; all of Carthage in 146 B. C, jByrsa she met about years, the historians would time, Numidians, '? cheated him out ofo fourth . generations, infects nations and .' iand :In ? about the same accord- and s tell you, but are not the children of ?ing * gained pay a small mance overturned a great nation and * 's it. But the men from the Lybian des- that she should sea and with the tribesmen ,: i an filled 10,000 homes with mourning, but ?whose ert, ""of the same blood as the men amount for the land which oxhide?- were by A \u25a0 \u25a0.would';'. and the ? fathers ruled nCarthage??? who were » Morbus' subjects, ?'have not * cover. -Hiorbus. ."bit" that was neither the first nor the ?last - shrewd, princess"sliced. a vhide up Into • veritable chain of;: those trans-Meditet- ; quit- - yet. and It Is said that there . \u25a0 strips.. end. case. : Take this trouble \u25a0in north Af- \u25a0 are 60,000 or more of them in the hills i threadlike tied them end to ? - ranean beginning with Dido ;n^ big conflicts? \u25a0 city So?the -.old? and off plot of" ground ffor instance, war between the about the r of. Tripoli. circled rica the and -trailing in blood through "all the : /feud- still 1 on. .the " old . fire, which enough for a settlement. Of course, and of old Is? Turks in Tripoli the scions centuries, involving a score of peoples, 'has burned on. the north arid south? fell in love with her. v .^ ? , . . no nose for nearly .weary Rome. : Those who have stretches down ;to the present conflict shores of the Mediterranean for Then came Aeneas, travel and over- 8,000 years out. - scarred, a pedigree, for romance and refuse to admit the Aubrey x has not burned If battle with rare when Admiral -. of?. the * Italian shades keep :up their interest in ; 'he": was the ' *of a. goddess and % a whelming influence dead ages the sen of?the fleet hurls? Invective and steel at '•Has- .? things terrestial there are several? mil- •.prince of Troy, and determined to win present events. will you that it them, veterans this same seagoing. on suna Pasha and the Lybian- Arabs. The lion of of ; the wise widow and end his struggle—dates 5 *, war, watching pres- gods that | is an .-": old * back sto the scorns ;? fixing time honored the But the interfered, or at least historian Dido in the , struggle from the pagan hades, was story he sailed settlement of the Russb-Turkish- treaty - ; ent the he told her aid l cause for the war and talks? much of the Christian heaven, the Mohammedan away '-like;- many another mariner who : in I*7*,: when Italy was told by In- paradise with stories, and .the diplomatic affairs \ between the *porte Its seven • hungers for the sea, found the mouth of| tervening powers that she could occupy and * the "powers and of desirable from wherever the Phoenicians and the Tiber, welcomed byLatinus and | ; 4 ? ? > the? -, was Tripoli by pacific measures. An'bid 'commerce of north Africa which Italy1/J;Qartha'genlaris went. Not a few Turk married Lavinla. evidently was ;? Greeks, Saracens, Vandals of Genseric's ! <,o keep wandering, so struggle. Indeed!" -_ Why, it^Jbegan in an .would absorb, but then'? the historian \; able him from has no appreciation 'following raised their?*weapons?; and " stayed the -. union ; * were gnawing of£romance—he lis' 4 there he arid? from age when the Russians " a went down in one, conflict "or another grew Rome. Meanwhile poor Dido, de» - "mere chronologist. v^'V?;".' »?>*\u25a0*''::- I<\S~ seas. Italy bones. on the frozen steppes, and? the Certainly he can not deny that Rome "i»or that^Belisarius ofPa? just but Kart or the "new tion. Arid. what? is more, It began in later | Roman empire (crossed same : . old Carthage, that was what Rome city" in Phoenician —later abbreviated i ; the to Carthage—she a love affair.?*< "?":: : -*\u25a0"?- -waters to attack :the same shores 'in the did about. 241 B. C. to Carthage. And the dynasty of Aeneas rsixth* century' D., or knights seized precious Sardinia and Corsica, •; flourished and a city, Before Rome was ; founded, and while A. that the built* but the lova of; St. John, representing and the ' war is < still;onTV?*', .-'J-,*?;??.* of Dido and Aeneas was jdead and the was still scouring the?seas, the clerical . ??"*' I Aeneas . power of Rome in the days of the cru- Now, to go back to Dido, this is the • bitterness which followsran saders, started, hunting a landing-place J, after trie Tro- made the same crossing and way It all or at least this is love affair grew with the '.prospering Britain and penetrating wing. dies hard, as the records show. A hun- ; into the heart upon .her? He ..'invaded/:Spain; jan war, he put Into Carthage and saw warred in .the. same fields. But. for the the way Rome and Carthage started, '. cities. The stronger they grew the more of the deserts of Africa and Arabia, with Hasdrubal, his son in law, and dred times the men from the north have benefit of' all modernists, might be l and they started the fighting In earn- jealous : harrowed Dido, and ;queen of; -it?" they were and jthe more the brought back.?. enormous s famous Hannibal. Rome was plowed and the same narrow founder the Phoene- well to review present est: When the Numidians and the merchants great dumped '"".wealth and the strip J the .trouble 'on'the'African shore, it into the market places •\u25a0panic, Hannibal crossed which lies between the great des- Hiorbus, king of the people Lyblan • of the stricken .when cian settlement. from the time of the treaty of '78 and of the deserts were sailors and traders, hated the soldiers trade center. "No Roman can wash his the Alps, laid waste Italy ert jmd the sea with steel and "have ;;then,? as said, idwelling.-; In north Italy, Northern Numidians, loved Dido, but Dido and Balzac . "Let .us talk of Africa in '-cheerful^ :: ofj landsmen who despised the sea hands in the sea without Carthage's and threatened the capital itself. But sown it with salt, but the old soil pro- real people"— to Dido and' the ibarbarity and Latinus was reigning and sent the, of the population out permission," ";the; held he re- duces the .same* crop with" Aeneas fell violently in love with each over scum merchant princes he was in check and when each sue- 1 heartless Aeneas for.-the ."sake of-old the soil where Rome was later in boats. boasted, and it was almost literally to Africa Sclpio met him. on his generation, When Dido other. Zeus did not favor the mateh romance. built, Aeneas, the homeless wanderer, '.•'\u25a0'• turned Carthage intro-i Carthage controlled the trade of the true. But then when the great conflict ground and, Carthage went into duced to history she engraved Mercury — Every . story Dido, the vagrant princess, met * own so he sent down to deliver an one knows the of the and iwhole Mediterranean. No foreign power came Rome had an army of 700,000 in- her vaults " and treasure ? boxes T again, its name in characters which time does \u25a0recent events. part on ;• shores of near ultimatum. Aeneas, sailed away to In the latter of -' the Africa where could enter the ports of her colonies, fantry and g70,000 cavalry (arid*her but-; to buy the Romans off. The last of riot seem able. to erase, and the child-en September -Italyb sent' a to Trip- :-Tunis now stands, and fell in love. to of Aeneas may yet found Rome, of grew what- fleet ' but had trade with the mother city. posts reached to Spain on the west and the Carthage which Dido founded -fell be busy for a long out which oil gave Turkey a was daughter of king Her population, great : ."> Sclpio—the rubbing out Italy, and notice- that '. Dido the the when the. clash into the wildernesses of Gaul in all before another nameAwaa while the last faint trac- ever" power is left to and Dido movement on part of city of Tyre, came, and 146 1 1-nothing ings plowing similar her would the merchant arid had -'was- close Mo.'a million her directions. ominousin: B. C.-.arid but and under 3 the last bound- killed herself, thereby spiting Hiorbus be a declaration of war. Constants-; been married, to her "'uncle Acerbas, ; traders, scouring: the seas from India to Pyrrhus pirate charrQd 'ruins marked the V; site %ot ary^ one: of her empire. \u25a0 the defied Carthage ' ' --'\u25a0 "-••"", : \u0084~-> \ - ' * .-^uarfflfir*!