ITALY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12755, 26 September 1919, Page 7

ITALY.

♦ THE FIUME QUESTION. PLAN TO CAPTURE ADRIATIC PORTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—^Copyright ! Australian and! N.Z. Cable A?sociation. (Received September 26, 8.50 a.m.) i LONDON, September 25. 1 Imitating d’Annunzio, other Italian leaders have planned to capture Bpalato, Sebenico and other Adriatic ports. The situation is grave. , By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received September 26, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, September 25. It is understood that. President Wilson has approved of the settlement or the Fiume question as recently proposed by the Supreme Council, on the terms that Fiume shall be a free city under Italian suzerainty, that the port and the Fiume-Laibach railway shall be internationalised ’under the League of Nations, and that Italy shall undertake to construct no fortifications within a considerable distance of the townThe last provision has infuriated the Italians here, who declare that it is too late for compromise. The feeling in Italy is such that the only solution possible in the eyes of the -Italian people is the unconditional annexation ot Fiume. Any Government attempting to compromise will be faced with a revolution. General Peppino Garibaldi, who has arrived at Paris, told his compatriots that the only way out is annexation. STEAMER SEIZED BY ITALIANS. ROME, September 25. An extraordinary act of piracy is reported from Trieste. A band ot twenty Arditi volunteers, officers and men. who had grown tired of waiting, decided to capture the steamer Vienezia, which was carrying food to Pola. Volunteers ‘ at night time boarded the vessel in small partiesThey mixed freely with the sailors and passengers on the following morning, but when the steamer was nearing Pola, about noon,, the volunteers took up positions at . various gangways, while a group of officers sprang on to the bridge, and presenting revolvers, ordered the Captain, who is a Croat, to steer for Fiume. The crew were similarly surprised, while an officer entered, the saloon and calmed the passenger’s. The steamer arrived at Fiume in the evening, and was received with en- ■ thnsiasm, d’Annnnzio granting the volunteers special distinction.