St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 30, 1919

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— a —— Se me ee oe = thing but Italian. But I ceased to; name ending in ‘ich')—‘‘and_ it. was. did their best to Shavize Italian chil- wonder at such anomalies after I had Changed in the days of the Venetian|dren. The Italian language was talked with Dr. Roceo Arneri, the, domination. This is true of many ®@bolished from schools, courts and leading citizen of Curzola. names in Dalmatia; Venetians, being government offices. The latter were Curzola, it must be said. looks like Unable or unwilling to pronounce the / filled with Slavs, imported on pur /@ bit of Venice set upon a little hill. | Slav names, translated them igio!Pose. This process was precisely Its streets are perfect reproductions | Italian. You have met Count Dujmi | similar in Dalmatia to that pursued |o7 the Calle of Venice; its houses are | @i Delupis of Lisza, I suppose? His, >¥ the Prussians in ae egg as Venetian in appearance as any of | mame is a case in point; it was orig- | Prussian Poland, and quite as : the Grand Canal; its fortress towers | imaliy the Slav Vulfich, meaning Son | fective. But since the Italtan: oct e sea and reached , ; and walla are lik , lofa W * atm irta |cupation many families that had miles from th 'U. &. S. Israel was present. nd walls are like those of the Vala-/ of - Wolf, but it was transla‘ d ito | been Slav for two generations have testa castles in Romagna and the | ltalilan and became Delupis. teortecus street rT Names No Guides to Polti ! italianit In j hid - ‘ ‘Ss to Poltics. . ‘ ‘ere their tallanity. master of the Mediterranean. mountains 2500 feet — oy One needs but a few days aid | Marche. Dr. Arneri lives in a litte | sexed Count Dalai €) Delupe aaah sae their efforts ‘he Aus- The western, or Italian, shore }§ the latter, called the Prokvon, matia to learn that names are no i , | Biteenth century palace that might | bout this when 3 was at Lue & tee ort va we-wnahe to stamp out the . -- . ‘ : . . sl }- . . sae ; . has not a single port that can be between 55 and 60 of Austria's dication of nationality and that 'almost have been designed by the! (ays later. He laughed and said: ‘It! ~ re ndleoae mare I wandered alone used for naval purposes, nor is largest merchant WP si Whether ¢ man is Jueo-Siay ise tal architect of the Calla Oro. In the, May be so, but this is the first time I moreno a sadieele quarters of such . f 0 S nd ; ‘hor when the Ita.- | relies wwe ee oo ie a 9 een ‘et? | ; ee pots ag one pies va . found » agian lan is not so much a matter of race courtyard are marble tablets with in- ver heard of it, and when I told him strongly Slav cities as Sebenico and used. eg agen han en he ians took posses: as it is of politics. I opened my eyes in °CT'Ptions reciting in pompous Latin , What a. Arner said about the Ar- |; i420. and never once did I fail -te water, but no protection. Ar wonder when I met the Marassovich | ‘?® testimony of Venetian Doges to ri tamily he eagereete again and) wake myself understood in Italian the heroic deeds of several Arneri3 in | 54/4: You could not safely have! 4. to receive answers in Italian—and Dalmatia is about 210 miles 7 “an Aatead: Brin- 7s -here more than 35 7 ’ : cona is an _— orsgsamree bat long and nowher family at Scardena, and found that it e disi is a fairly good commercia ,Was and alwaysghad been, Italian, | ‘%¢ Service of the Venetian Republic. | told that story to Dr. Arneri’s father! i. oriably in the Venetian dialect. or grandfather. This is true of men, women and miles wide, sometimes being less port, but almost useless for na- Propet nacre Bien pare Sqhad ‘been, Italian. | the service of the Venetian Republic. Curious Changes in Family Names. .pijgren. 1 walked in the streets than a mile wid. This narrow "f srati ip is c ff from the hinter- . ' ’ ‘ val operations. , strip is cut off ,active leader of the Italians at Se. | Urehead of the Venetian warship eastern or Dalmation i A -_-— A A A ——— Why Italy Feels That It Is Vital That She Have Dalmatia Sebenico, which has two great Seis, and that as such they expect ‘you to pay your share of whatever _indemnities may be assessed against | what was formerly Austria-Hun- gary.” | I got no further. I do not know what that dozen of gentlemen said. pegins of deep water, the outer pose all spoke at once in the -eached by a Very narrow |- I | SS PAT [" H General ~— cat's ”| MB INSIDE VIEW OF STRUGGLE : | f the war for Christian cive 4 ae gan —= WW sCORRcaili Estate and Want Directory Rehechner Atal =: BETWEEN ITALIANS AND THE SLAVS TO GET DALMATIA ST. LOUIS, MO. ie we eee or Snuff Habit CURED by harmices remedy. Gueran. teed, Sent on trial. If it cures, . If it fails, costs nothing, co., DIOR, Baltimore, Md.. eeeeataieeeil Ct Py “4 a ke de .’ riatic understands why Italy Wants Dalmatia. Napoleon is quoted as having said that whoever possessed the eastern shore of the Adriatic could be by a Fig: Pinot A NYONE who knows the Ad- » TWICE as many Want Ads as the Globe-Democrat information on about twe - _ — SN ———————— oe mo PART TWO. IS, SUND:z PAGES 1—16B. an -- —— a Stocks and Bonds Correspondent for the New York World and Post-Dispatch Sent to Italy by the U.S. Tells of Arguments Used by Both Sides. ~~ « ed | th arc i ner! .: es i - oe Sars c "hy hd —% ¢ ¢. - war, for the Roman Catholic Croats| U@@S called on Gen. Avena, apolo and the Greek Orthodox Serbs the | Bized for the hostile demonstration; Venice, with its streaming sails. The | former insisting upon a republican |the young wy wae released, form of government, the latter caring | On Jan. 1 the Italian troops occu- Ma . ¢t Vv z " 2 _ green, white and red tricolor of J als only for an en] aid . ; | pied Knin, = still further in the inte- was at the foremast head and twined | fe niargement of the Serbi- | ~, ~ | an kingdom, will come to blows at|'0r- Kunin was a frontier outpost of | _ lammerts 1OTY & WASHINGTON Furniture of Quality-Priced Very Low with every flag. The banner of Spa- , | : ; ° ' |once.”’ the Venetians in the long war with mt . ‘the Turkish invaders. There are . ot fight, they explained the Civil War Begun. : ul kish invaders, rhe re are four would not fig : killed that Dr. Salvi ‘lions of St. Mark on its walls, and/|terrific Italian losses in Killed U - S4lvl sald that to me in De-'| ; " | 1 Mon- cember; the civil war he predicted | the lion that faces the southeast has! week of bitter battling around - it pr ke é Galthe Bi Scie at the e -mav ‘ thich at last turned the has already begun and there ict ; : A Porm ce ona > —— oe | tegrappa, wh “Pz a "Cy s ’ ’ s paee mhemy Bot fights Detween Serta|- eee ) answers ‘and Croats—so much so that in Visible on the open page of the book l received two different answers. , . ss s a : ; e . ‘ ‘ : 7 ; ¢ > more the 1. in held by the other lions of St. Mark. | Dr. Bianchini (or Biankinl, 48 he | 1an One place the Italian oc- | K . ‘ee ’ ‘} vas a member of cupation was welcomed by the Le nin a Slav City. : spells it now ), who was » 20% Knin is today a purely Slav city,!the Austrian Reichrath from Zara, Croats, in spite of the fact th e e _ @7, , — 121 thes M4 . $] j . . ‘ fa ~ ‘ - 2 v al ia a ic > »y" he ‘ ugo- avs have always been the bitterest haters | — population being about evenly | and is th sender mS agivided between Serbs and Croats in that city, said: lato was furled and draped in crape. The vessel slowly warped into the | dock, its 600 passengers singing and | weeping. A vast crowd was there to greet them, a crowd in which were men and women from every city on the Adriatic from Venice to Taranto, including Count Grimani, Mayor of Venice; Alfredo Felici, Mayor of An- cona; Commander Recchi, Mayor of | Pesaro, the.-Marchese Serafin, Mayor | eee 5 birin Tablets; dozen, 0 eo cay “ANNI im birin Capsules; dozen, ~~ See |S eee its Camphor......10¢ ice Peppermint...1i5e mce Jamaica Ginger, ine SbOe =o0¢ o- ail TOe oe ine Tooth Paste. .25e ‘ooth Paste 20e Tooth Paste 3ve Tooth Powder...2te ooth Powder 20 of Fabriano; Count Soderin!i, Clerical Deputy from Osimo; Dr. Paccatti, Republican Deputy from rison of Fano; Dr. Salvi, who had heen Deputy from Spalato, and Lieut. Zimolo, whose abdomen is closed by | a silver plate where it was torn open by a shel] and who is the leading enirit of the great organization of the Multilati di Guerra. Men and Women Hysterical. Before the gangplanks were set, there was a rush of weeping, laugh- ing, almost hysterical men and wom- en climbing over the bulwarks, eager | to set foot on Italian soil. There were Dalmatians of Italian descent, visiting Italy for the first time in Years, coming home as Italians at last. Ancona feasted them on and 16-—parades were the theaters were given over to the celebration; the Archbishop presided Dec. 15 ata solemn Te Deum in the wonder- . ful twelfth century cathedral. The Mayors of Ancona and Venice pre- sided at a mass meting at which the Mayors or Deputies of all the Dal- matian cities spoke and pleaded that Dalmatia be made Italian. The hymn of Trieste. with its fine chorus, the words of which, lilerallv translated |ing a little better, but not much: And } continuous: | ‘of Italy and that the Croatian regi- | ments fought to the very last to stem Ancona; | the Gen. Tamajo, commander of the gar- | ltallan victorious advance. l translate a paragraph from a let- ter from Admiral Enrico Millo. Gov- ernor of Dalmatia, received by me in Rome in February: “Dear Bennington: From Sinj and the neighborhood of Spalata the peasants are pleading for our occy- pation. The Serbians have offend- ec these peple by their religious in- tolerance. At Spalato things are g0- at They are calling $razza and Ragusa also when I am alone I bite my hands-”’ All the places named in the Ad- Trau, always badly. us from 'miral’s letter are outside the zone of Italian occupation. l accompanied Admira] the occupation of Drnis by the Italian troops on last Sunday in December. Three Japanese destroyers had ar- with the commanders us. constructed by Napoleon—the Dalmatia that is more We overtook the advancing column of Italian troops, artillery. cavalry, engineers. infan- houses. Millo to, with the former ina slight majority. | the | Drnis to} There city. are very few Italians in On the road from Kinin the bridges had been blown up and the advancing Italians were at- tacked by a small foree of Slavs. but 48 soon as they threw hand granaces attackers fled. The total casual! mule Gen. Avena ex- pected a battle on entering Knin. but there the the ties were one to his amazement 3 instead, rang. flowers windows on Was no OD- church snowered the flags fluttered ection: bells from the and Italian many of the Investigation proved that the Serbs had persecuting the Croats; had closed the (Catholic churches; the Croats had barricaded troops over been themselves in their houses. fearing a and. they wel comed the Italians as their sai iors When Admiral Millo invited me at Dalmatia I condition hiassacre, therefore accepted on that he would help me to know the ‘leaders o -Slavs rived at Lebanice the day before and = f the Jugo-Slavs. we took We went in a motor car up the fine | road only road in . than a mule path. He said: “The more vou see of the Jugo-Slav leaders the better pleased | be.”” And wherever I went I made a point of visiting them and hear- ing What they had to say In all places they said about the same. The Jugo-Slav propaganda has been so Widespread and so cleverly managed ‘bulletin shall | “It is true the Croats fought like tigers to the very end, and the rea- the sinister their They were fighting to save they knew Italians against that designs of the country. their homes from invasion.” Dr. Slavs at another speaking to house in the their associates, “a fought to econ is leader and Dr. Spalato their of a group Kretel, Spurato, of the me in middle said: that rhe true last. lie, not ‘he was a and tween the Croats Bosnians AS a that long for the allies stirring up tro victory been won had for : revolt When in the army and in the Italians made or hastened the retreat.” Repeats Talk of Italians. The gentlemen of the J committee at Spalato urged tell them frankly what the said about them. follows: “The me Itallans say that they of the Jugo- Misetic, leaders, club- of the Croats Austrian deliberately framed to embitter the relations be- the Italians. The so-called Croatian regiments that resisted to the last were made up of matter of fact, we Wwe ible ustria and had been planning # the navr. their final attack our troops either surrendered igo-Slav | to | ltalians I spoke about as were IIVNUUUUUUUUUUUANUUVHUUUUOLTUUUUEE AULA It Will Certainly Be to Your Advantage to Act on These Suggestions li 7 -_—* *- ye = owe ~~» SS e _ eS ee ee ee, - eee ow oe ere ey ae Si Secale mn . - ° - . a “ - Biel - Mh Gearon Tea ay A. are: “And the girls of Trieste all | try traveled alongside of it for many sing fervently; ‘O, Italia, O, Italia of | miles and swung into the town of my heart, come and bring us liber- Drnis just as the head of the column ty!” ‘was sung over and over again, arrived. | insisted that the Austrian defe: oe ome Sage of seo alten Population T i Out was due to them: ~ es ela sii Curzio. Wisza. Trau, Cittavacchia, | : PUIAUOR LUFHCE Wut. es om, that they had sown etc. were masted with those of Ve-| News of the army’s. coming had ante of rebellion in the Austro-Hun-.- nice and Rome and Italy in a wav-|8one ahead and the whole pop- gma a and that the final ing group, as resolutions were adopt- ulation Was out to see it. The | “ai so ro : lave and in the ed asking President Wilson to hear vast municipality stood silent - weal ittoria Vensta Was not! fore altogether too late to be ac- the appeal of Dalmatia. )anad indifferent. In the pub- Risin vd _ the Lwclian arms, be- ‘cepted. They say you were a part Visit to Dalmatia. [ie sauare, however, & party eid PP longer varies reruses *¢ Seht) of the Austro-Hungary eupire The next dav I went to Dalmatia | Well dressed young women wearing i i a . asked them | the last, that yen. one of the | to see fox myself. I crossed the Adri- ‘ribbons of the French flag—this ee Pe in Seana senei: the Croat principal heirs of that = ists atic on the bridge of a destroyer with |ing the same as the Juga Slav flag, = Ba Se that fought the | heriting its debts as well as its as- Admiral Galleani and was the guest | only turned through an angle of 90 of Admiral Enrico Millo, the Gov- | degrees and the wearing of any flags ernor. for three weeks. I had to be | except those of France, America, En- | as the few hotels had all been re-| ae aed ye and mpage ree Drug ale Government purposes | ing forbidden—phbegan a hos - | : Tar ate piace to stay was on|onstration. They hissed and booed | board a warship, and the only means and whistled; they sang snatches of | : of travelling was a torpedo boat, or, the ‘‘Marseillaise.”” A tall thin Monk | Also combination sale—pay regular price, add 4c, 8c here and there a military motor car. | in a brown cow! stood ona slight ele- | or get one free as indicated below at KEIFFER’S, Broadway and On arriving in Dalmatia the man! vation waving his arms and shouting Franklin. Sale and Double Eagle Stamps Monday and Tuesday. S who knows Italy is instantly struck | something in the Croation language | | z ONE FREE WITH EACH : with the typically Italflan character to urge them on Suddenly a man od 1 eg pea te ween a Free) ise Venetian Soap, round...... of the cities. For those he sees first pointed to the three Japanese officers 350 Quinine, P. & ., 1s oO“ 1 Pree ise peeked aries Rg iz are the coast towns—Zara, Sebenico, | ang shouted something that an offi- ec + mg a + Beg 1 Free 10¢ Cold Cream, o7 Kee aoe Bpalato, Curzola, Trau—which are! cer who understood Croation told us’ TRE sac Pusy. Willow Ponder... 1 Free tse Glycerine: one, Mater 2 OF and always have been Italian. When meant ‘‘Long live our firends, the oo Ms. «cl Pee Hinkle Pills Free 50c Wiliams’ Toilet Water. he goes into the interior the impres-| ja nanese.”” Presently the Japanese one oo Aina oa — eceetn aameke sion is different, for the interior) (racers breasts’ were covered with 25e Tooth Wash Liquid Free 25c Tr. Benroin. oz. | towns are purely Slav [ies Miaw Ciags, They wore litted te | SRT iS eobuas senor. 't Beesiane Cinemas taken tea Away from the coast there are NO the shoulders of men and women a nd Qe Red Cross Cotton. or Frecit@c Heama t.eaves. 02 ' longer the beautiful Gothic and Re- ‘borne in procession around the she ae Seema. s pt. | Free 206 a. Todine. ¥ .. r naissance houses and churches and! square. Admiral Miilo said to me: ; ¢ lusect Powder the remains of Roman splendor, but wie vou feel like a ride on the the ugly, unadorned, square s{one| 1 oulders of some of those girls just a pean onaind of aie let them know you are an American.” there be a modern byllding © “4 Thé Japanese officers seemed to Se Ear and Ulcer Svringe Pree 25¢ Ranid Quini f ‘olds... Sie Absorbent Cotton, Ib. roll Free 10¢ Soda. Mint Tablets a re a —_ b t clubhouse or) : ‘he Williams’ Cold Cream Free 2hc Laxative Boro Pepsin ce ere ee Free 25 Laxative Cold Breakers... that had been pinned on their , eteenth cen- flags toe / sete octane eberam breasts were Jugo Slav, but thought . erm ’ : . Ne Cathartic Pills, Free 30¢ Pepsoid f i j Se Nash Croup Cure : Free Se Ideal i o “ec Aapirin Capsules, doz. Free ife silk Weed Soap Me Chamomile Flowers. t or Free the Little Good Night P e i tie Moth Balls, box Free 2i¢ Zymole Soule Weorden | "Se Absorbent Gauze, wa Free !0¢ Tr. Iron. U. & P_ er ia te White Pine Covgh Svrup Free 25 Schoenfeld’s Tea 4 “te Kex Eerema Olntment Free 25ce Albolene Cold Cream | Slav ‘they were French. ; ti Nux and Iron Free 82 Hot-Water Bottle In their talks to me the tp ~ ie As the soldiers marched in Admiral! ‘Se o. . S. Meo iggy Ib Ne. es Fountain Svringe.. rp FE e a € : = i . a ‘ . ve sot ie or. a) oa ree ure j “ee ; ; >. ge dpe grenge emicier dont ‘anny Millo said to me: Look = ae *he Aleock’« Poran« Plesters Free. . eth averantonh to eae n » > ~™ , ‘ ° . wh 4 nae cent Italian, | handsome young Captain of Carabi e ® , y ’ r and ae "thi fact that they base , er! and that magniicent sn: ‘hel it Piety Z ‘xa independence of eavalryman riding his prancing horse the aa Gav state. It is unques- | ere Beal ang- omy a Se danafh gon pee pi tlonably that the large majority of Drnis get to Kn - ye y true is Sl but it ig ers like them; the hostility will soon of the population is Silay, | , at Le- , t was the same at Le a age aege eh ersd na rever you! benico and other places a few weeks actory it is Itallan; wher they are excellent ADD 4c AND GET TWO = ADD 8- BND QET TWO find a mine it is Italian; wherever | ago. but now The Putnam Ts ee ” for 14 Me Caldw * 1Me Insect Powder Vampiro. .° for 14¢ 206 7 nat AP hayttthedet 0 tee at D , gr aith in pacific there is a prosperous busines enter-) friends. How great faith in pac prise it is Italian; wherever there’ penetration. 10c Paramount Cigars = for 14¢ $1.25 Pierce's Golden Medical Discov - F? fs beauty of architecture it is Ital- A tall, handsome young woman-— 25c Black Draught ‘tfor tie ery, ‘ P Se Williams’ Tooth Paste . 2 for 20e g17y Alkalithie e000 2 for $1at U lan. 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