The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-25
SLAVIC TOWNS
BEING TAKEN
after F|UME?
Italian Troops Reported After
Fresh Conquest - to Re-
store Nicholas to Throne.
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Sept. 25.-Apparently in
emulation of Captain Gabrielle Dan
nunzio, whose dramatic seizure of FL
ume centered the attention of the
world on the eastern littoral of the
Adriatic, ether Italian leaders are re-
ported to be advancing on Spaiato,
Sebenico and Trau, important towns
along the coast which have been under
the control of Jugo-Slav forces. Peace
conferences circles are plainly con-
cerned over the situation which seems
to have become quite grave.
Belgrade advices declare Italian
soldiers have everpowered small
Jugo-Slav force at Togure and have
entered the town. 1t is probable that
the place mentioned is Trogir, the
Croatian section of the city of Trau.
about Is miles northwest of Spalato.
Further south there appeal also to
disorders. reports from Rome indi-
eating there Is virtual reign of ter
ror at Ragusa, a Dalmatian town close
to the frontier of Montenegro.
Nicholas May Come Back
In addition ther are rumors that the
Italians plan to restore King Nicholas
to the Montenegrin throne from which
uo " dS ouSlSu ny hCCloh VI lhC 4tch-
ton assembly last April.
This action of the national assembly
has never been recognized by the
Royal Montenegrin government, which
has maintained it's headquarters near
Paris for several months. King Mich
olas Is the father of Queen Helene,
Of Italy.
So far as know definitely no answer
to proposals made by Italy relative to
Fiume has been received from Presi-
dent Wilson although it is int1mated in
unofficial Italian circles that it has ar
rived.
There Is a disposition on the part Of
the Italians to reject any proposition
looking to a compromise the claim be-
ing made that the storm throughout
the country can be calmed only by
giving Fiume to Italy. There are
hints too that a governmental crisis
may develop as a result Of the stu
alton.
General Giuseppe (Peppino) Carl
baldi who arrived here yesterday, de-
clared serious results would follow
it Italians were not placed in posi-
ton to settle the Fimue question ac-
cording to the will of the people" He
said the city is not closely blockaded
and that the Italian government was
sending supplies into the city.
The crisis through which Italy is
passing is imputed to the great powers
by General Giuseppe (Peppino) Carl
baldi, in an interview printed in the
Petit Parisien.
He reproaches them for not having
given Italy all that was promised in
the treaty of London, and declares
f0 hn int nf Tto1
people to keep Fiume "even at the
price of another war"
ROME FEARS WAR
ROME, Sept. 25.-"Do you want an
other war;" asks the Messaggero in
commenting on reports from Fiume
and Dalmatia, showing that the Dan
nunZio movement is spreading and
that others are trying to repeat at
Zara. Sebanico, Epalato, Trau and
other centers of Italian population
along the Adriatic. His achievement
at Fiume. The gravity of the situa-
tion is now thoroughly understood by
everybody.
Cabinet ministers do not conceal the
enormous gravity of the situation and
the serioL- difficulty, not to say the
impossiblity of finding a satisfactory
solution to the Fiume problem.
They do not want to use force
against Captain D'Annunzio, wishing
to avoid fratricidal conflict, and it is
said that this hesitation may be part
ly due to the fact that troops ordered
against the poets forces might refuse
to obey orders.
Persuasion it is said here, is useless
| with agreeing to Captain D'Annunzio's s
condition-the annexation of the port
of Fiume and the hinterland to Italy
proper. 1t is asserted that if the Ital-
ian 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 already have acted but
| for internal troubles and the lack of a
RESPONSIBLE man in power