The New York herald., 1920-12-30
D'ANNUNZlO QUITS
FTUNE IN AIRPLANE
'Italy Not Worth Dying For"
Is Poets Taunt as He
Yields to Caviglia.
EMPOWERS CITY TO ACT
Mayor and Defence Chief Give
Complete Recognition to
Treaty of RapallO.

ROME, Dec. 29.-D'Annunzio has is
sued proclamation declaring that 1t
is not worth while dying for Italy. He
said he was leaving Ffpme by airplane.
This was semi officially announced
here this afternoon, together with the
announcement that the Fiume agree
ment may be regarded as concluded.
This settlement is based on recognl-
ton of the Treaty of Rapallo. dis
bandment of D'Annunzio's legionaries
and general amnesty.
Negotiations for surrender were car
ried on with the Municipal Council of
Fidme, to which D'Annunzio early to-
day ceded all his powers.
A report from Gen. Caviglia. COM
manding the Italian regular troops which
entered Fiume. said that complete recog-
milton of the Treaty of Rapallo had been
given by D'Annunzio's representatives at
the Abbazzia conference with Gen. Fer
rari.
II have an impression solution is
approaching" Gen. Caviglia wrote.
The report indicated that Ricllardo
Gigantic, Mayor of Ffume. and Capt.
Hostventuri. director OF national defence
at the city. had quickly accepted the chief
condition prescribed by Caviglia. namely.
complete recognition Of the treaty.
description Of the last phases of the
struggle in Fiume, received here to-day.
showed that the legionaries reopened fire
against the troops, who were merely
holding the positions they had taken
Monday night
The fight assumed the character of
guerilla warfare all along the line. The
legionaries took advantage of the natu-
raj resources of the terrain for laying
ambuscades.
AS the regulars were advancing
across orchards they were enveloped by
fire from machine guns. which had been
sunk 70 the level of the ground and
cleverly camounaged. The houses
seemed to have been abandoned. but
when the troops approached the legion
aries, hidden behind windows, behind
chimney stacks ana on balconies and
roofs, suddenly opened fire. Even women
were found working machine guns,
The gravest losses were inflicted by
hand grenades. which were used so
freely as to give the impression that
they must have been accumulated by
scores of thousands. 1t would have been
an easy matter to get the better of the
legionaries by employing artillery, but
the military authorities refused such re.
course except against military buildings.
The legionaries ultimately tried to
force the regulars 10 retreat in order
TO relieve pressure on the city. but
failed. owing to the stubborn resistance
especially of the Carabineers and Alpine
troops, who fought courageously for
more than three hours. The points
where the struggle was Ditterest were
near the railway station and inside the
Fiume cemetery, which was virtually
destroyed.
What the regulars especially resented
were the insults levelled at them Dy
the legionaries. n Calabrian soldier
who had his leg broken said while being
carried off on a stretcher: The insults
hurt ME moro than the wound
According to the Messdgero many in
fluential persons I'm Fiume were badly
treated or reprimanded by d'Annuncio
because of their efforts TO induce him to
abandon his seemingly irreconcilable at
titudc. When some tried to open argu-
ments with him the poet called them
towards.
The newspaper asserts that nothing,
even approximately. is known of the
casualties among tho legionaries
Capt. Pint of the regulars. who was
wounded in tho head. said TO tho Mesa
ocros For five days our troops ad-
vanced. unprotected by artillery. the Off
Gers and men having no arms except
muskcts. The regulars approached the
legionarics in n spirit OF fraternal cor
dialty as the best means OF inducing
them TO surrender"