Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-25
FORCES PUSH
ON 3 CITIES;
FRETS PARIS
Rome Leader Says Italy
Will Have Fiume Even
at Price Of War.

Paris, Sept. 25.-Apparent-
ly in emulation of Captain Ga
brieIe d. AnnunziO, whose dra-
matte seizure OF Fiume GEN.
tered the attention of the world
on the eastern IittOraI of the
r Adriatic, other Italian leaders
@are reported to be advancing
N SpaIatO, SebenicO and Trau.
important towns along the coast
which have been under the
control OF JugO-SIaV forces.
Peace conference circles are
plainly concerned over the situa-
tion which seems to have become
quite grave.
The crisis through which Italy
is passing is imputed to the great
powers by General Giuseppi (Pep-
pinO) Garibaldi. in an interview
printed in the Petit Parisienne this
morning.
viii Go To War For 1t.
He reprOaches them for not Civ
ing Italy all that was promised in
the treaty of London and declares
it to be the intention of the Ital-
ian people to keep Fiume even at
the price of another war
1T depends on France and Eng
land" he says, whose popula-
tions are with Italy in the Fiume
affair. Whatever should be Presi-
dent Wilson's answer to Italy's
proposals, we will say to him that
this dispute is between Europeans
and must be settled between Euro
peans We know the American,
French and British people are with
us in this matter"
Gets More Troops.
An Italian detachment with sew
eraI armOred motor cars has cross
ed the line of demarcation near
ToskeiTe, Dalmatia, and penetrated
l5ks town after having overcome the
Persistence of Jugo-Slav soldiers.
according to Belgrade dispatches.
Additional reinfOrcements to Ga
briele d Anunzio's forces have
raised the military strength of his
contingent to more than twelve
thousand men. according to esti-
mated of allied officers.
Situation Grave.
Rome. Sept. 25.-Cabinet minis
ters do not conceal the enormous
gravity of the situation and the
serious difficulty, not to say the
impossiblity of finding a satisfac-
tory solution of the Fiume prob
lem. They do not want to use
force against Captain d AnnunziO,
wishing to avoid fratricidal con-
fiict. and it is said that this hesi-
tation may be partly due to the
fact that troops ordered against
the poets forces might refuse to
obey orders.
Persuasion, it is said here, is
useless without agreeing to Cap
tain d. Annunzio's conditions
the annexation of the port of FL
ume and the hinterIand to Italy
,proper.
Between Two Fires.
It is asserted that if the Italian
government should accept such
conditions she would have against
her not only her allies but her
erstwhile enemies, headed by Jugo-
Slavia, which perhaps would al
ready have acted but for internal
troubles and the lack Of response ,
Bile man in power
The possibility of Baron Son. I
nino, former foreign minister, for
the present Fiume situation, is at
tackled by the Corriere Della Ser .
IA of Milan in retaliation to de-
mands for the head of Premier
Nitti by newspapers favorable to F!
Baron SOnnino.
Pact Gave 1t To CrOatS! !
ITO ask for the resignation of (
the sabinet, maintaing that Pre- /
mier Nitti and freign minister Tit
toni betrayed Fiume, is an injustice .
and a lie" says the news spaper. I
'Such an attitude is unjustifiable /
when it is taken by men who ad- /
hered to the pact of London, in .
which was included a clause Civ
ing Fiume to the Croatians."