: 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 <Didb?and:*Hiorbus, en- tered-Spain? again and were .checked AMDS by Martel In 732. 5 at Tours Karl Karl Martel represented: the pontifi- :\u25a0\u25a0-cal power of Rome in his , age, as op- posed tor the Moslem power of the dark men of northern The issues had changed 'a;trifle?; 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 *<to reports, the sailors vand? enough to build a citadel. The Homer took quite a few \ recent? outlives them. Aeneas'; men, still warring » with the soldiers of Italy took Tripoli': and : Phoenicians were clever and poor HlOr- ro- She bar- thousand lines to relate ; how a little; ; killed every native man. and woman in bus was a* mere barbarian?; -children of the Numidians acrossVthe, > 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.