Evening star., 1922-03-12
|THE STORY THE WEEK HAS TOLD

the inhabitants) have yielded to the persuasion
Fiume shall remain calm depends on the ac-
tlon OF the Italian goyernment. Stl more more
calm depends the action of the Italian
government.
Undoubtedly the government Of Rome is
anxious to do Italy's pledged part toward
making effective the treaty of Rapallo. which
treaty calls for an Independent Fiume; whether
the Italian chauvinists will fatally thwart the
intentions of the government remains to be
seen. Fiume is not self-governng; its
one. is combination of committee of fas-
esti IT,! and i'd an Italian commissioned. sent to
garrison, which lay low during the recent hos
tilities) and seek solution.
The committee flies the Italian flag from
public buildings and heads it's communications:
"Fiume Italy" The commissioner: / think
in him.
But where Is county Guy? Where is
DAnnunZiof One seems to see the legionaries.
the fascist the thugs from Trieste, standing
In the piazza, gazing toward heaven. A specE
Is seem 1t grows bigger 1t draws nearer. 1t
Is above us. The air Is thick with pronouncia-
mentos. The hero Is here of course, with the
nymph of his latest orisens. 1t must happen
Should Italy and Jugoslavia definitely fall
out over Fiume. the effect will be bad, very
bad. on the Genoa conference.
dispatch Just received indicates that the
Italian commissioner is restoring to the Fium-
an majority the power usurped by the reso-
government has declined to participate in the
Genoa conference. for reasons of which the
chief Is expressed in the following language
in the note of declination:
ut has been found impossible to escape the
conclusion that the prospective conference is
not merely an economic conference ques-
tions appear to have been excluded from con-
sderation without the satisfactory determina-
t,on OF wh,en the ehier causes OF economic dis-
rather a conference of a political character in
which the government of the United States
could not helpfully participate
4 X X x
Russia.-During the last thirty days 100000
tons of foodstuffs and seed wheat for the
starving Russians have been delivered in
American ships the ports of Reval, Riga
Libau. Danzig, Novorossiisk. Theodosia and
Odessa. but only $4,000 tons have been loaded
will arrive at the above-named ports within
the next thirty days. with no better prospect
It was on March 1 that the first trafnload of
corn purchased from the congressional appro-
priation Of s2oooo.ooo arrived in the "starva-
ton belt" i.e., at Tzaritzin; fifty three days
after the appropriation was voted.
United States OF Amerfca.-The Delhi tele-
gram. Limerick and Fiume have completely
done for me this week; do not feel up to
the bonus, anyway. cui bono' as it were:
entry into washington, his army numbering
about two squads. He appeared before the
House merchant marine committee and an pro
Board vessels now idle Dhe necessary funds
would be provided by the Treasury and by
popular subscription. The general has never
been at sea, but neither had Noah before his
memorable voyage.
Acute infectious jaundice is now epidemic in
the United States. Sixty-nine Yale students
are down with it. The germ is carried by
rats and its name is Observation-Disclosures
rhagae. The Yale authorities carefully
studying the symptomatology and epidemi-
ology of the disease.
The board of managers of the International
Anti-cigarette League has requested Mr.. Hays
to eliminate cigarette smoking by women in
tho movies except "as the accompaniment of
discredible characters"