New Britain herald., 1919-12-27

uously in session. One of the principal 1 of these was the rival claims of Italy and |Jugoslavia in the Adriatic. The United
 States on February recognized the king
 dom of the Serbs, Greats and Slovenes,
 known as Jugoslavia Serbia, Montenegro,
 Bosnia. Herzegovina, the Hungarian prov l inces of Croatia and Slavonia, part of the
 Banat of Tenlesvar, the Austrian province
 of Carnioa. part of lstria and part of Dal-
 matia were united in one state by a rep
 on January 5. Prince Alexander. son of
 King Peter. was called as Regent. Pos
 session of Dalmata and part of Istria 1 formed subject of dispute with Italy. 1 The difficulty harl1s back to the entry
 of Italy into the war. This was obtained 1 by the Allies, who agreed with Italy. in a 1 treaty signed at London on April 26 1915. by Great Britain. France and Russia, l stating very definitely just what .Austro- Hungarian territory would be given to Italy in the event of an allied victory. By this treaty large part of Dalmatia was a Warded to Italy. but Plume was to go to jJugoslavia. This town is preponderantly Italian in population, hence the dispute waXed keen.
 Jusoslavla, on February II, proposed ar bitration. Italy rejected it on February l1s. President Wilson, on April g, an- nounced that the treaty of London was considered imperative by the peace con- 'StiSN. oNA Lildtr liGPCIIHClCSS. + lu1nc would so 10 the Jugoslavs, as that treaty had provided, the idea being to give Cro- atla an outlet to the Adriatic Premier Orlando refused to admit this. and Italy withdrew from the conference on April "A, but returned in May. Meanwhile allied troops were in occupation of the city, having been there since November 17 IThere also had been a partial Cabinet crisis |in Italy on January 1S which resulted in 8 reorganization of the Ministry, Orlando remaining Premier.
 After their return to Paris. the Italian delegation agreed to recognize Fiume as la free city. But conditions at home were IgoinS from bad to worse, owing to m rest, strikes in the larger citie. of Italy |and sing cost of Iiving Dissatis |factlon expressed in the Chamber of Deputies. led to the fall of the Orlando MlnlstrE on June IS. Francesca Nitti be- came Premier and Tommaso Tittoni head |ot the Foreign Office and the peace dele |satlon Riots occurred in Eiume and Ienera' Radosio, an Italian, was in- trusted with the mission of keeping order most of the foreign troops withdrawing olsnor Il1tonl proposed a compromise of Whch Italy would have possession of tlume and its two western harbors. while the suourb of Susak and the eastern |Waterlront would be administered bv the
 Lea sue of Nations and new port would De built for the Jusoslavs at Buccari, ~N' MI 'h'iACS SdSl ol F1un1G,
 D'Annunzio's Coup d.Etat.
 Fearing that Italy would agree to the loss of F1ume, Italian volunteers under Gaoflele dAnnunzio on September 1o took norclble possession of the city and tha Italian regulars and Allies withdrew A Fleet or atrp1anes, some naval vessels in the harbor and few Italian resiments Jolned D'Annunzio's standard. The Italian government sent an ultimatun to D'An- nunzlo to surrender and instituted block
 ade. The poet commander defied the order and the blockade was lax. food con- tlnulng to reach Plume D'Annunzio ex- tended his occupation to the suburb of Susak and the hills overlooking the city.
 Iii Italy the Chamber of Deputies on september 1 had passed a bill giving
 women the right of national suffrage and
 King Victor Emmanuel announced his in- tention Of giving up all the crown domains Tor the benefit of the Italian peasants and returned soldiers and also the gift of his palaces and other buildings to the nation
 for philanthropic purposes. Signor Nitti m heated session of the Chamber on September 27 iolamed President Wilson for the delay in settling the Plume question and received a vote of confidence, but two
 days later resolved to appeal to the country to decide on 8 policy regarding
 Fiume. Parliament was dissolved and elections set for November 16
 DAnnunzio on September % amour ced a state or war with JugoslaVia, but the Jusoslavs declined to knock the chip off his shoulder. The Italian National Coun- |cH of Plume on October 5 protested against the food blockade and it was raised. Italy in cable correspondence with the government at Washington proposed the erection of a buffer state in Plume and the annexation to Italy of enough
 Istrian territory to make the Italian boundary contiguous to that of Plume.
 An election for a national council was
 held in Plume on October N in which |D'Annunzio barred all except the Unions Nazionale from voting. Italian girls and women were allowed to go to the polls. but no Greats of either sex and the bridge to Susak was closed. Naturally the an- nexationists won by 6,6SS votes to 1s6 for the party of Professor Zanella, leader of the Italians in Fiurne, Wao prefer a pro- (tectorate to annexation. ~
 Meanwhile the Fiu2nans were growin g |very tired of D' Annunzio, finding that they |could not live on his poetical proclama-