THE ADRIATIC DIFFICULTY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1711, 30 December 1919, Page 5

THE ADRIATIC DIFFICULTY.

D’ANNUNZIO STILL CONTROLS i FIUME. By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. _ Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON, Dec. 28. „ The Times’ Milan correspondent states that after the Council meeting at Fiume a great majority accepted the Government scheme, but D’Annunzio demanded a plebiscite, and the Council, anxious to save the poet’s susceptibilities, agreed on the formula freeing D’Annunzio and his followers from the oath to remain in tin- city till the annexation. The Arditis, fearing that the ballot would be seized the ballot boxes. D’Annunzio was within an ace of tendering his resignation, and departing, but when surrounded by ardent supporters lie-changed his mind, and proclaimed himself to be led by divine inspiration. He talked wildly, and banging his sword, declared he would aid the rebels in Ireland. Egypt and India. Really, he incarnates the characters of his decadent literature, and proclaims himself a corporal of Arditi, like the mount? bank of the Middl Ages. Ho has secured control of the city, and will not leave "it while all but a_ few thousand fanatical Arditi, who are unwilling to 'return from their licentiousness to normal life, are vainly seeking a way to liberate themselves from their liberator. It is alleged that the Social Drmocrats are also implicated.