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Show Mill TO HOLD FIU1E Bl FDRCUiE SAYS Poet Adventurer Declares Italian Nation Is Ready to Rally to His Banner. Likens Himself to Joan of Arc; Spirit of Revelry Pervades Street Crowds. PAR!?. ?pt. C. Wkon sx-ar.-va r.t :ho lt:i':isn-$w:5s bonier and r.t;Ae y-an-ly to o.;?tiMh the Ameri.-sn. -h far-Tied far-Tied the fol'.owiitc stoiy bv Mr. Clayton t n't:: Otr.ite to the or.ts'le.e wor'nl. lie-lr,ved lie-lr,ved reir.ovlr.i: otie ot h.i piit:ee tttt-ti'. tttt-ti'. the '.. erector h.:ul turned his r.t::-:v t:, n eiew here. Th:i t? 0!ti' one itv rident ::i the eourior :nl oal'ie ro;ni "vet:', Fi'o.tne to vour bre:ikf::: t:i!e. Tlrct t'ther persons who we:,1 br:t'ic".nc .lit.teites on the s:in e trr,hn or.t ot It.tiv were deteert bv the Italian in-M-.eetor r.nd Their l:sp:.tehes seired. is eNorttnir everv nere to keev the news ol h;er orev;it o'.ts iront re.,er.-ir.i: re.,er.-ir.i: the o.t;ide won '. BY JOKX CLATTOX iChtoairo Tribv.ne 0:;ble Copyrlfhta ril'MK, Sept. -2o. Vi:i Pari. ?ept. CS. Red. preen r.n.i white gle.-.nted the beams of tin- searchlight into the night :.s out motor svu i c.onvt. the steer, cliff into th-1 i ,T'viruien city of Fiutue. It circle,"; swunj its leekoning linctr inland, now far at sea. as if to tell wa:ehors that the spirit of Italy Thatched over its peooU. We had yasd'the vail 1-Veke.l :u-r.-istiee Itr.e and had been ofl:ela!lv reeoiulaed at Lieuteaaut Colonel d "An-r.u.naio "An-r.u.naio 's barriers as ittvired jtttests. "C'ithin a few minutes we were speod-it:c speod-it:c down tho tttain avenue of this little Adriatic port in which the interest of the world centers. rHverywa.TC is a liatte of iieht and color, hi 'erv where the street is filled with merrymakers, for Fiutne is trai 't g th? b of her hours of msdr.e-; lnt in all the ,.--elry there is a hint of stagi::C;-s in the reality. I: see'.ned like a eott.ic oyera stage. I expected ar.y minute the t horns To sine '"We'r 'oily- rebels all. " ' Depicted as Liberator. In the center of the city not far from Hotel Wilson, The name of which has been blotted out. is a great tiluntiaa'ed yiscarj done in white, red and green, representing "P "Ann1".1. "to in f ull uniform, uni-form, but also wearing a huge pair of wings, such as angels an- supposed to sprout, as guardian and liberator of The ci-y. We had been met at the headquarters of the 27th .army corps in Abbar.ia by F "Annunzio "s chief of staff, a colonel. We were promised safe, if strategic, convoy. T3,e colonel took his plaeo in our car "while a maioc followed in a Prat. When we reache 1 the armistice line the colonel w-.avf d the guard aside. '"My car follows," the colonel shouted, and we wore in Kiume. We drove s"raight to the former palace pal-ace of Franz Josef, where the commander com-mander in chief received us in th audience au-dience room. "As the voioo of God Itrd -loan of Arc at the head of a small army of patriots to purge hor land of enemies, so v.js I called with my little group of volunteers volun-teers into Piume.-' So spoke Colonel F'Annnnrio. '.Tust as surely as any one ever was led bv divine inspiration to undertake what seemed a hopeless 'ask I was led. I was in bed with a high fever. The voice spoke to me. saying. -CPi to Thurr.e. " "Immediately I arose and droned, called To. aether my lit'le volunteer ..r-u y cf ; j and marched into the city wiThut resis'ar-'e. j Serbs Foiled. "Had 1 'pe-n t er.ty f -var hours later ! the e-bs would ha v.' been ih-Te be-: be-: -'re mo. We haw al-olutc ; ro, f of j they moved Their !.- aihpmrt. rs fro-n j Ajrun to 0uti:i. S- cond, we h.-n e oh- ! tair.d a ,lr,cu:nen which has 1 cn on to an It.O.aii Cioj-ury t-t road in the O.amb'-r showing :;-,,- (r--ats had a:--poiu't d an eii'ir- new city g( i-rnm. :,: t- take c- r affairs a1 ou-- . 'If any prv-f is r. , of 1h- :,t-ti'iah- f-f i's pop:. lath :i in ;he d-'-iro f - a - a - . d to T'alv it . icn by ;he i "ho uiii-od in a itr.i.t :---i:,ui-ra t o ol of -.-.t! . W r ar.- in j iiame V' "ay. 'aly an iv. r ; : z I r. -..v t:.- f :. - l-.:;;. i t :: 11.1 ij-.on R . "t Y. ;11 r ..Hy ; it y l...i 'fr-" ! "I- "a- r t - - r " ! i .v ;n Tt:--" n t p. iaj . f f. n-.- 'P r.i- l..!c ! . ! .,! .a 1 n a a' i i r a d "a a r ' , -. I .red th- li. I Iia 1 l.f.-' f..-t-ot:. ii ,. !.. ' a ! :. V, I,, i i- " ,i 1 ,i i ' - '-a c 1 -. I ; , - , t ., ' ' I Says He Will Never I.eae. 1 .... - I' .' I . I , : ; .-!'.!' - i I , f '; . ' ' i ; ' tlstics his belief iu Italian Fiutne. But this has been argued attain and again. Of mut h more iuiii-Ti ance is his statement state-ment that tho cnir( nation is ready to follow him to death if necessary and that he will ncea itavtr Piume. purine- the progress of our interview a great crowd gathered outside crving :thci'- "Vivas" and one of tho staff interrupted. savinr thre was a rumor in Fiume that the city had been ot-ficiallv ot-ficiallv annexed To Italy. The crowd would net accept a denial and celebrated as did the jeoplo of the b'u;ted S-a-tes and Paris when the ar-n.iioe ar-n.iioe was signed. There was no doubt of the sentiment let the street cmwds. Tho i roatians i Le-- to th.eir homes. Italians throng I the' s-reets. The cafes are filled to ! evert i owing and talk is fevensn and exciting. Put there is everv chance ! tha" this oyera bouffe mav turn to i-ragedv. for P'Anuunrdo is determine! Vf.v at ail haaards. He conceives i pirise'.f to be the pot uiar nation. ii liero lard he is here to the oca'li. ! 'eanwhi!e the rtrtehe he plavs with ti-r, nn explosion that may wreck Italv. audi he knows it. Tittonis Statement. F.OtvtiE. Sent. 2? ("Fy the Associate.! r-5?" i ltatv must remain m un.ty with her'e'.i'.es o.ec.sred Toir.asso Tutoni. the Wen mu.is-.er. m his speech today in the c'-r-n 'oer da!inc with the situation erow.r.c out of the Fiun-.e ino.o.ent. in I which he o'fered to resign m tavor f t i any member who believed he could handle the -pro Mem tetter. The foreign minister had tone over the cn-jf t-,e peace necotiAtions at Pans, ravirc ramicu'.ar a;:e:it:-n io the slaius i of President Wilfon in the peace activi-! activi-! t ec ai d icir.tii.i: out that the Italian de ecates he.d had to adopt an attitude ! o' o n-prm-mse because, while brar.ee I --d G'eat Britain had assured Italy of the-' suv-pmt. thev had avo.ded pome he-i he-i vord t'"e point in which they would have i . t corflict with President Wil- 'suV j -pt-f address was followed by a live y i discussion. r-epuiy Ton Ccllonras di 041-11 strr.irl- criticised what he re-,.g' re-,.g' 'TO rc trp 5-,ibn-.:ss:ve attitude of the I-a'-an d-le'cation at the peace conference confer-ence JV to the council of four, he rie-c rie-c ared where three of the members 5toKe y- ci-Oi whale Premier Oriando did not unrle-'tand a word, he resembled another fVure. "not between two. but nn-.or.aT th-ee thieves " Tie irenibcrs of the chamber and the u- . i : i-v - t representatives protested apamst thus ooniparison. |