Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-17
FIUME CITIZENS
INDIFFERENT To
WORLD s OF INION
With Plenty to Eat and Spend,
Nobody Thinks of Tomorrow
and NOBODY Seems to Care
What Happens,
By Beatrice BaskeryilIc.
(Staff correspondent of The Albuquer-
que Morning Journal and the New

York World.)
Copyright 1919, by The Press Pub
fishing Company.
tThe New York World)
Especial cable Dispatch.)
Fiume, Oct 16--Ffume, entirely
Indifferent to the rest of the world,
lives a life which to the cold blooded
observer from other regions is more
like a musical comedy than anything
else
Professions with banners, bands and
d AnnunZian messages spring up from
nowhere and lose themselves in the
crowd of enthusiasts or become re-
solved into other professions from OPP
poste quarters of the city, ali of which
are animated with the same political
feror. Nobody thinks of tomorrow
and nobody cares what is going on in
prosaic Washington or the Peace
Conference
BY what seems to be a miracle there
is plenty TO eat although the quality
is not first rate and the prices are at
dizzy heights. But. really, there is no
miracle about the food supply because
the blockade imposed by the " Nittian
government las the Italian govern
ment is called with ineXpressible dis
dain-is a dead letter When 900 out
of every 1000 Italians are for dan
nunzio and an Italian Fiume. when
every man wears the Italian uniform
and is ready to fight for both, SNUG
Cling is an easy matter.
Has Food and Money.
Besides this. Or. Grossics. president
Of the national council, has obtained
hpl n hn nA e.
quarters in Rome and they are all
ready sending supplies of food and
medicines Fiume communicates with
the outside world by wireless, which Isl
under d'Annunzios control and cen
sorship.
Every city in the Italian peninsula
is collecting money for Fiume and the
popolo d Italia, the Socialist organ,
sends a message that it has already
collected 100000 lire, Every hour
brings to d'AnnunZio enthusiastic
messages from municipalities and
eminent persons all through the PEI
ninsula.
Whitney Warren, the New York
architect who arrived here recently,I
is the only American Of whom dam
nunzio and his citizens are fond all
others are cordially disliked. Sem Be-
nelli, the poet, is here, too and the
fact that he has made money out Of
his play, The Jest, in New York
has not changed his political views at
all, Most people here think Whitney
Warren represents the only part of
American public opinion that really
counts.
The Jugo- Slavs of the suburbs do
not complain of i'll treatment. And
it is only fair to say that they have
no ground for complaint They put
their faith in the president of the
United states and say that they can
wait patiently until he and the con
ference settle the Fiume question.
Some of their priests fled when
d'Annunzio entered the city, but it'll
was mere matter of nerves. No
body here believes that America Will
starye out Italy and the news that
the mayor of Genoa has enough grain
in that port to feed the peninsula un-
til the next harvest was greeted with
of course he has"
Insist on Deputy.
Fiume is determined to have it's
deputy in the new parliament in
Rome His election. which will be an
easy victory because he has no OPP
pOnenL taxes pave on NV ~, ny
date of the elections all through Italy.
He is a sea hero and was chosen on
that account.
His name Luigi Rizzo, is famous
for his having sunk an Austrian
dreadnought with three small motor
boats and thirteen men. The odd
part of the business is that Rizzo will
get into the chamber of deputies no
y,otter what Premier Nitti does be-
cause he is also the candidate for