The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-26
SERBS WITH SLAVS
ON FUMES FRONTIER
Italian CrouDn Council Again
Considers Problem.

PARIS. Sept 25.-A Rome despatch
dated Wednesday quotes the Epoco as
itating that Serbian regulars and Jugo-
Slav volunteers have taken up positions
dominating Monte Nevoso, about twenty
miles north Of Fiume. ana are guarding
the Regina Basin and the San Pietro-
Fiume Railway.
The same despatch says the Italian
commander at Fiume has taken the mil
circumstance.
The Crown council OF Italy held two
sessions at Rome to-day to take up the
situation that has arisen as a result Of
the seizure of Fiume by Gabrielle dan
nunzio. II any decision was reached no
announcement was made.
There are rumors that the Italians
plan to restore King Nicholas to the
Montenegrin throne, from which he was
ousted by action of the National As
sembly last April
So far as known definitely no. answer
to proposals made by Italy relative to
Fiume has been received from President
Wilson, although it is intimated in I'M
official Italian circles that 1t has arrived.
There Is a disposition on the part of the
Italians to reject any proposition looking
to a compromise.
Gen. Giuseppe (Peppino) Garibaldi,
who arrived here yesterday. declared
serious results would follow II Italians
v ere not placed In a position to settle
the Fiume question according to the will
OF the people" He said thu city is not
closely blockaded and that the italian
Government was sending supplies into
the city
The crisis through which Italy ,s pass
ing Is imputed to the great Powers by
Cen Garibaldi In an interview printed
In the Petit PGrisien this morning He
approaches them for not having given
all that was promised in the treaty of
London to Italy and declares 1t to be
tie intention OF the italian people to
keep Fiume, even at the price of an
other wal"
ROME, Sept. 24.-In political circles.
where the Fiume affair Is virtually
monopolizing attention. 1t is commented
on that Italys internal situation-grave
economically for want of food and raw
materials, and grave financially because
Americans dollars arc at a premium of
100 per cont here-has been rendered,
far more serious politically by the re-
cent Fiume Developments
Reviewing the situation. the Popolo
Romano says: U-
'SThe only possible way to save Italy
from anarchy is to give way to publ;
opinion, which, however 1t may differ
as to methods, is largely favorable to
policy OF. granting Italy what are
consideIed her inalienable rights"
"Do you want another war;" asks
the MeSsG00erO in commenting on re-
ports from Fiume and Dalmatia showing
hat the dAnnunzio movements spread
ing and that others are trying to repeat
his Fume achievement at cara, Sc
oVaI Ath oh
centres OF Italian population along the
Adriatic The immense gravity of the
situation Is now thoroughly understood
by everybody.
cabinet Ministers do not conceal the
enormous gravity of the situation and
the serious difficulty, not to say the i'm
possibility. OF finding a satisfactory So
luton to the Fiume problem. They do
not want to usa force against Capt.
d'Annunzlo, wishing to avoid fratricidal
conflict, and II is said that this hes'ta-
ton may be partially due to the Iact
that troops ordered against the poets
forces MIGHT refuse to obey orders.
Persuasion, II is said here. is useless
without agreeing to Capt. d'Annunzto's
conditions--the annexation of the port
of Fiume and the hinterland to italy
proper, 1t is asserted that II the Italian
Government should accept such condi-
tons, she would have against her not
only her present allies, but her erst-
while enemies. headed by Jugo-Slav'a-
which, perhaps, would have acted 81
ready but for Internal troubles and the
TACK of a responsible man in power. The
italian Government was the first to
recognize the impossibility of expecting
the Allies to acknowledge as an accom-
plished fact the occupation Of Fiume, for
IL they admitted of this view there
would be accomplished facts" every
here.