Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-06
AWAIT PARIS WORD,
ITALY URGES POET
Aosta Asks That Fiume Opera
tions Be Held Up Till
Allies Decide
GIRLS ASSIST D'ANNUNZlO


Paris. Oct 6.-The Duke of Aosta
has gone to Fiume, being charged by
the government to ask Captain Gabrielle
D'Anuunzio not to extend his opera
tions about the city, but to await a
decision by the Allies relative to the
situation, according TO adyiccs from
Rome.
1.-THE Duke of Aosta is cousin of
King Victor Emmanuel and is COM
mander of the Third Army of Italy.
New appeals for prompt action 'to
save Fiume from ruin" have been laid
before the Peace Conference and rep
reservations also will he sent shortly
to United States Senator Lodge by Rug
zero Gothardi who claims directly to
represent two thirds of the voters of
Fiume and Indirectly more than nine
tenthS of them
Fiume. Oct. 3 ldelayed .-T.egious
of Fiume girls are entiCing soldiers to
desert from the ranks Of the Italian
army forces stationed at Ahbazia and
other points on the armistice line in
order to increase Gabrielle d Annunzio's :
army of occupation.
The girls leave Fiume hidden in
motortrucks and are driven over cir
cuitous route in order to evade the
watchfulness of the caraDinPers who are
stationed between the regular Italian
army and D'Annunzios : forces When
they leave the motortrucks at various
posts the girls begin work Quietly by
talking to soldiers on the street and the
soldiers in turn convey word TO their
comrades. Sometimes through this
method entire battalions have gone over
to the Fiume army. among them one
battalion of bersaglieri and another of
machine gunners.
Bari. Italy. Oct 6.-Thp report that
the Italian steamer Epiro. with 200
Italian troops and other passengers
aboard. was fired upon by ,Jugo- Slavs
from Rondoni Island. near Cattaro
September 30 is confirmed. Only a few
shots were fired against the steamer
then only about 100 yards from the
shore. but cavalry soldier, Eugenio
Balliani. is in the hospital here with
bullet wounds to attest TO the truth Of
the incident.
According to reports circulating here.
the Jugo Slavs attacked the steamer
in revenge because during the war
squadron of airplaneS commanded by
D'Annunzio dropped bombs on Fort
Mamula, on Rondoni Island.
FDHe. cct. O.--i 10y A. i,J--NCftTO -
ing to reports received by the ministry
of the navy, only one shot was fired at
the steamer Epiro when she was enter
ing the winding channel leading to
Cattaro last week This shot. il is
said, was fired by Serbian sailor vol
unteer from the Rock of Rondoni,
situated on an island in the channel.
Italy has obtained the punishment of
the guilty sailor and the substitution of
Serbian regular troops for volunteer
sailors as guards of the forts along the
channel.
dispatch to the Idea Nazionale from
Spalato says that owing to the recent
trouble at Trau. Jugo- Slavs are des-
troying Italian property and maltreat-
ing Italian subjects there.
"An Italian girl was killed in the
street because she was wearing the
Italian colors," the dispatch adds.
italian sailors, who landed for sup
plies, had TO be escorted by American
sailors in order that they might be pro
tected from the insults of the mobs.
The Idea Nazionale publishes a
proposal for solution of the
Fiume problem drafted last July
by the American historian. II. Nelson
Gay, of Massachusetts, now resident
of Rome. The plan of Mr.. Gay, who
has been active in war and relief work
in Italy and is vice president Of the
literary section of the ltalo American
Union, was submitted to the Peace
Conference before a similar project
drafted by Andre Tardieu, but accord
ing to the Idea Nazionae, President
Wilson refused to accept the scheme.
The plan would have given the city
of Fiume, with its local port, to Italy
and an international port with the
railway lines from Fiume to Agram and
from Fiume TO Saint Peter to the
league of nations. thus complying. ac-
cording to the paper, with President
Wilson'S idea to give the Jugo Siavs
countries free outlet to the Adriatic.