New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Italians Here to
Help Redeem
Lost Provinces
Commission of Three Opens
Headquarters at Holland
House to Rouse America
Saw Wilson i'm Paris
Not Satisfied With Attitude
of the President, So
Plan to Consult Senate

commission representing three
provinces of italia Irredenta" il at
the Holland House, where HEADQUARTERS RS
have been established, to plead the
cause OF elfdetermination for the
Italian inhabitants there who desire to
BE annexed TO Italy. Its members talked
with President Wilson and Colonel
House in Paris, after which they said
they deemed it necessary" to 20 to
London and finally to come to the
United States, a,si if necessary talk
with the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations
The commission is made up of DR..
Ciorgio Pittaco, chairman. who has been
a member of the Austrian Parliament
from Trieste fer fifteen years; Rob
erto Ghiglianovich chief representa-
tive to the Dalmatian Diet from the
city of cara for thirty years and chair
man of the National League of Italians
in Dalmatia, and DR.. Gino Antoni. an
alderman in the free city of Fiume,
who is also the official delegate Of the
National Italian League from that city.
Society of the Unredeemed
They are all members of the Society
of the Unredeemed Italy, in Rome, where
the movement for pleading their cause
before the peace commissioners oriei-
mated.
The Italians of Dalmatia, Istria and
Fiume," said DR.. Pittaco, "are sure
that as America went into the war for
the defence of the idea Of self determi
nation of small nations, America will
now do all in its power to help in do
ing justice to our people. We are here
to help them realize annexation to the
motherland, for which they have made
so many sacrifices in this war"
The commissioners made it plain
that they were not at all satisfied with
their talks with President Wilson and
Colonel House in Paris. They have
come here prepared to tour the coun-
try on the lecture platform in addition
to stating their cause to the Senate.
According to Dr.. Pittaco, their an
Gent enemy, Austria, is vanouished.
but she is now replaced in the form of
the union of the Jugo- Savs, which,
they say, bids fair to be quite as diff
Represent the Majority
I'VE are Italians, and we represent
the overwhelming majority of the pop
nlatlon in our Provinces" continued
Ut. Plttaco. "Our presence in Amer
lea is the best possible proof that
the voters who sent US here by special
convention, are also Italians Politi-
cally speaking, while we desire above
all to become part of the Italian king
dom, we are willing that Trieste, cara
and Fiume shall become free cities.
with neither immigration nor economic
restrictions against any Of the many
races of the Adriatic coast
Of the 100000 inhabitants of Trieste
100000 are Italians. King Victor
Emmanuel, when he greeted US in Paris,
declared that Trieste was the most
faithful and loyal of all Italian cities.
When Italy declared war against Aus
tria, 1856 officers of the Austrian
army of Italian birth deserted and 249
were killed while fighting for the
motherland. Of these 1900 were from
Dalmatia.
Of the five delegates from cara to
the Dalmatian Diet, Representative
Ghiglianovich said, three are Italians
The majority of the aldermen of the
city of Fiume. DR.. Antoni said. are
CARA" said Ghiglianovich twas
never part of the Balkan peninsula and
has never had anything to do with the
was province Of the Republic of
Venice, but Napoleon gave the prov
meas to Austria. Unfortunately, in
1865, when Austria restored Venice to
Italy, Dalmatia was not restored with
it."