Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-28
PROF. CHANDLER VISITS
 DISPUTED ITALIAN REGIONS

4 brief extract from a letter under , date of March a2, written from Italy by Prof. Albert R. Chandler of Ohio university. son of c. r. Chandler of Mckinley avenue. who has been over seas in service during the war, is of timely interest:
 All winter I had been eager to cross the Adriatic to Trieste or Hume, those cities whose possession was so eagerly longed for by the Italians, and into which they had at last entered into in triumph after their victory of Novem- Der Towards the end Of February the opportunity came to make a business trip to Ffume by way of Trieste. AS in many other cases, the realization was less romantic than the anticipa- ton. The two cities are both beauti- fully located on bays surrounded by mountains, and both have fine modern buildings. But they contain little that IS antique or of artistic interest. In comparison with even secondary Ital- ian cities they are dull and cornmon- place. And if you are looking for mod
 ern commercial cities we have plenty of their superiors in America.
 My errand to Hume was, to look 1 after the needs of certain American /, citizens of Croatian birth who are to be sent back to the states by way of
 Plume. They are very short of cloth
 ing. and prices in this region are pro-
 hibltive as the result of war conditions :. To visit some of these people I made
 an interesting auto trip from Plume to : Hrelijn. The latter is a large village in the mountains a dozen miles north : Of Plume and like a considerable mum
 Der of villages In Croatia Is inhabited | almost exclusively by persons returned from the United States
 1 We visited a Dumbar nf families took some pictures. and lunched in the open in an inn yard overlooking the l village with the sea in the distance. iThe Amerieanized Croatians seemed
 far from starving and reasonably com fortable. but the shortage Of clothing
 was evident; dresses were patched and repatched beyond recognition, and for shoes there were substitutes of cloth with soles of wood or woven rope. The
 village was beyond the lines occupied
 by the Italians and French and on the
 other hand there were no Yugo- Slav troops there.
 l There is a great deal of animated
 political discussion in Italy especially in regard to the east coast of the Adri-
 atic and the proposed Yugo- SIav state,
 Opinion varies all the way from ex-
 treno Dacifism to extreme nationaiism 4 lady of the former party said to me: :: If the people over there wish to be
 Italians, 1t is very sirnple--Iet them
 move to italy. Why provoke q war; On the other hand, the extreme na- | tionaHsts demand nearly all the east coast Of the Adriatie or the ground that it is Italian by tradition, that the
 nof1-Italians there are interlopers
 brought in to further the ends of Aus trian tyranny, that Italy has done
 much for the entente while the Crea- F tian and SloVenes fought hard against , it, that Italy will give these regions g 7 more civilized and liberal government : than the Slays. and that she needs
 them for her own defense. The ex- 1 tre1ne nationalists forget that if tht
 principles they appeal to were Univer- eaily applied every nation would over. ) lap some of it's neighbors, in othel f words the aims Of the various nation , sllists taken uncompromisiugly are ir.
 ireconciiable and therefore cannot b B realized.
 ' I have just returned from encon, 5 ltlrnci s,e' nier. Weerisirted nc 't' Gus e csts, of Istria and had good r1;w C the c:ttrancl | tlle great naval i,,<e c
 Po.a--,t,!'fe Austrian and n-w I:a"., :. tween f..r1+r hills strong y 10 :ife. U yirl batteries and equip?al uilh tal $ masts for wireless. Farther i'll " C Acould see the high nasts of warsi1ip ]; and the steel skeletons of coaling an U U sllipyard machinery outlined agains : the gray sky.