Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-27 | Page 2 | President Takes Firm Attitude

H'Annup.zio to the people of Dalir.atia, the poet -commander of Flume declared: "The. fate of the Adriatic tmt?t be de- i cided only by Italians. Any other races 1 would be intruders. IVc refuse, to allow them to prevaii." A message from Fiume states that an American author, Henry Fox, has arrived ar-rived there and offered his services to D'Annunzio. It also is declared that an American naval oll:eer had volunteered to help D'Annunzio defend the city. PRESIDENT Wilson Insists Fiume Shall Not Be Annexed to Italy, but Be an Internationalized City. D'Annunzio Issues 'Another 'An-other Defiant Proclamation; Procla-mation; Says Intrusion Will Not Be Tolerated. KOJCE, Sept. 6 (By the Associated Associ-ated Press.) The Stefani agency, the semi-official Italian news agency, denies that President Wilson Wil-son has demanded the expulsion of G--briele d'Annuii2io from Finnic, or threatened an economic blockade of Italy. ROME, Sept. 2ti (via Tarts) President AVilson's reply regarding the new proposals pro-posals for the disposition of Fiume has been received, the newspapers announced today. It insists upon his original view that the city should be internationalized and not annexed to Italy, becoming the center of a small buffer state between Italy and Jugo-S;avia. The president does not insist, according to the press upon a plebiscite in the buffer buf-fer state at the end of fifteen years, as at first proposed, and he consents to the t e - f : c a t i cnn ft h e eastern frontier of Istr.a in favor of Italy." in the district of Albnna. Tn a proclamation issued by Gabriele