The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-23
ITALY APPEALS
FOR ALLIED AID
Wants Troops Sent to Expel
D'Annunzio's Insurgents
From Fiume.
MORE REGULARS DESERT

London, Sept. 23.-The Giornale
D'Italia, of Rome, announces that
Tomasso Tittoni has resigned as
italian foreign minister as the result
of the Fiume situation, said a news
paper dispatch from Rome today.
Signor Tittoni became foreign min
lister on June %, last, when the Nitti
cabinet was formed.
Bombs Thrown at Patrols.
Fiume, Sept. 23.-Three bombs
were thrown at patrols today from a
window in a lodging house where
several Croatians are said to have
been living. There was no serious
results but some soldiers received
slight injuries. Otherwise the town
remains calm and in full control of
the D'Annunzio forces.
Four companies of Italian infantry
guarding the armistice line went over
to Capt. D'Annunzio's forces during
the last twenty-four hours. The con-
servative figures place the number
of troops in Fiume at 5000, consist
ing of infantry, cavalry, artillery,
aviators, marines and sailors. Two
brigades can be formed from these
forces.
Volunteers continue to straggle into
Fiume from military posts on the
Istrian peninsula and some are
over the molptains from
points north of Trieste.
Ask Allies to Expe D'Annunzio.
London, Sept. 23.-ItaIy, which was
given free hand to handle the prob
lem arising out OF the seizing of
Fiume by Capt. D'Annunzio as do
mestic affair, is said in reports cur
rent here, to have made an appeal to
the allied powers to take the matter
off her hands and send force to
Fiume to expel the insureent troops
from the city. 1t is claimed that Italy
has stipulated that if such a force is
sent to the Adratic city il must not
include Italian units.
1t is improbable, according to the
report, that American troops will par
ticipate in such an operation if it is
ordered, there being no soldiers avail
able for such purpose. American ma
rine contingents now in the Adriatic
have not taken any part in any act
ivities there and it is said they will
not he called upon to do so unless
positive instructions come from
Washington or the peace conference
in Paris.
Reports Seem to Conflict.
Reports from Fiume seem to he
One states that Gen.
deputy chief of staff who
was sent from Rome to deal with the
has established Gordon
about the city, while the Jugo Slav
delegation in Paris asserts D'Annun-
zio's forces have extended their zone
Of occupation, having advanced into
-Slavia seven miles on Sunday.
It appears, however, the reported
blockade of the city is not partcu
Iarly effective, it being reported that
q train load Of supplies has reached
Ffume. Another dispatch says four
more companies of Italian soldiers
Joined Capt. D'Annunzio Saturday
and Sunday. Dispatches from
Trieste declare the commander of the
French ships in the harbor has noti-
fed Capt. D'Annunzio that if the
stores forming the base of the
Franco Serbian troops at Fiume are
he will order his ships to
open fire on the city.
Grenadiers Faithful.
Paris, Sept. 23.-French special
sent to Fiume are
still filing dispatches from Mattuglie,
a town about nine miles northwest
of that city. The representative OF
the Journal says that although the
grenadcrs and arditi may have wa
vered, the carabineers remain faith
full and will see that no one passes
the armistice line.
The correspondent says Fiume has
food supplies sufficient for two
months and quotes Capt D'Annun-
zio as saying: "If my sovereign. Vic
tor Emmanuel, himself presented
himself, he would not pass the line
Of sentinels until he affirmed to me
he was the king of Italian Fume."
Indicates Grave Affair.
Rome, Sept. 23.-Thc postpone
nent of the reopenng Of the Italian
parliament from Sept. "a to Sept. q
IS pointed out by some newspapers
as indicating the gravity of the sit
Iation. According to some others,
his step was taken merely TO give
President Wilson time in which to
answer Italian proposals in order
hat Foreign Minister TittOni might
make definite statement relative to
Fiume, hoping that in the meanwhile
he D'tnnunzio incident might be
settled