The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-27
IS NOT IN
DALMATANPLAN
Of DANNUNZIO
POpuIaGe. Excited by Poet For
Time, Are Now Divided And
BY Many He is Regarded As
Halt Demented.

SIENA; italy, Nov. -. Especial Cor-
~respSndepce Of Reciprocal News Ser
vice 9-These are stll ~sgitatiug times
IN Italy. II is true that the great STRIKE
% last summer did not come Off, and
that the people steadily hold their own,
but matters are not as they should be
YET, There is . spirit abroad ever
ready 10 stir up disccrd and 10 Sug-
geet mad attempts at Improving the
situation BY the means Of rebellion and
. general eyerturplpg Of all existing
conditions.
The elections come this month Aftsr
the heated disputes which arose tn nSr-
lament and the scenes which occurred
there, there was nothing 20 BE- cone
but to dissolve Il, The country waits
anNieuslN for q settlement OF ell the
many points now In discus ion otclyr
Yhef& the labor troubles, provisioning
the country, experts and imports and,
81 course, the Ju@stl)A u Flpme. THIS
/ is that, more than anything Csc has
sept the nation, or those Of it who I'M.
darstood and cared. In a state Of die
turbance In inquietude, The belief Of
all thinking people Is that there were
the strongest Of finaRalal reasGas, and
those only, behind The obstinate and
determined opposition OF certain pRr'
sons In power TO the llmis sion Of Fiunnc
and the Dalmstian cities Into tbs ling
aeln of Italy. And this feeling has been
reflected during all these months IN the
aad speech Of the plail@r folk,
who believe what they heat
Common Peoples Opinion.
Outside OF the city gates there is :
branch p~ostoffice where ] always 60
The young man in charge OF It is unit.
fornly courteous and oeliging. He 10
tremendously patriotic, and all the time
curing the wal he was the most ready
Of all to put up patriotic p~rociamations
and posters in the window and door
Of his little office. He is Que Of those
who takes the conditions Of the coun.
try 3 0 seriously to heart that he is
Utmost wild over them, Actually when
anything goes wrong, or apparently 30,
! daren't &c to his office, for he Ia 90
disturbed that he troubles me. He 10
greatly opposed TO the present prime
minister, and insists that his aims are
"a creature Of Giolitti,' the notorious
politician who made the country 80
much trouble before the war broke out,
and who Is now beginning to make
himself conspicuous again. In his
opinion Of the young postmaster there
are many others who agree.
One Of the men whose opinion value
Is a certain pharmacist, who lives not
far away, He, too, 10 a most ardent
patriot. and how he worked for the
propaganda during the war! He used
to distribute 1t right and left, and send
1t out into the country, where it went
round among the cantadini. Yesterday
asked him what he thought of DAN
nunzlo's expedition. AS he is OF a very
head was upset by the present excite
ments He said, however, as many quiet
sensible people do, that p'Annunzio had
been imprudent, that he mad not chosen
the best moment, no matter What great
motives lay underneath the action. And
he added rather sadly as We parted, \
am afraid Of the opportunity which
this gives for the bad element, the
camorra Of the nation, to come to the
top"
Fiume Is Ready.
The case is just this, Of course T'iun,a
has decided to become Italian and 10
have the palmatian cities, and Italian
they ought to be. IN time all ought
vinced Of the justice Of the question.
But as there was already such a great
amount of unrest, and there were so
many people looking for changes and
for opportunities to upset things, this
action opened the door too wide. II
the regular army had not been dragged
into it, II the soldier poet" had taken
" Aii'AA Ni't = SNhiNHNf'1 ~ fNA@'HF
teers, it would have seemed a moro
knightly adventure, and one more rea-
sonablc, The encouragement of insub.
ordination in the army spoiled it..
Yet is Is almost to he expected that
something was bound to happen. The
patience of Italy was worn out; the
sights put upon her In the conference
ARE even yet eve present in the popu.
lar mind,
The press has naturally been very
active. The Fopolo, pltalia, of Milan,
edited by a famous socialist, Benito
Mussolini, is q paper that IL very wide.
ly read Just now, and Is doing harm.
Its editor Is q wise man sometimes and
has used his influence well, particularly
at the time Of tlle striker but he has
gone wild ~ Fiume, Some of 1is
editions Of the last weeks have, been
full Of invectives against the SoS ern-
elent, that Is against tnose who were
In power at Rome, though clever against
the house Of Savoy, The censorship
has been applied again OF late to the