Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-16 | Page 1 | New D' Annunzio Coup is Feared

n mm I COUPJSFEARED Insurgent Believed to Be in Dalmatia to Strengthen Grip on Fiume. BY FLOYD GIBBONS. (Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) PARIS, Nov. 15. A critical situation situa-tion affecting the United States has arisen in the Adriatic. Gabriel d'An-nunzio d'An-nunzio is out again, and is said to be determined to seize the coast from Fiume southward, despite the patrol of American warships. ha order to omwit this patrol d 'Annun-zio 'Annun-zio sailed from Fiume with 600 troops Friday in the early morning darkness. He landed before noon at Zara, about 100 miles southward, and took control of that town. The warrior-poet made a triumphant entry into the city with his Arditi grenadiers and staff, and, according to dispatches from Trieste, "received an enthusiastic welcome from the Italians of Zara." D'Annuuzio was accompanied bv his warships and the torpedo boat Nullo. It is announced that he intends to continue con-tinue his expedition to more towns on the eastern coast of the Adriatic and seize them for Italy. The United States has several warships war-ships in the Adriatic and has a zone of control on the shore, with a center at Spalato. Spalato itself is one of the next towns in the course of d'Annun-zio's d'Annun-zio's proposed expedition. The United States is the only nation maintaining patrol squadrons in the Adriatic, France and Great Britain hav-iu hav-iu withdrawn. The presence of these warships has been the leading obstacle in Itaiian aggressions on the eastern coast and for that reason have aroused bitter comment in Rome. The Italian government political paper pa-per Rome, published in Rome, devotes an 'entire front page to an editorial headed with large type, "The American Ameri-can Fleet in the Ardiatic Is a Danger." The editorial follows: "In the roads of Venice a few American Amer-ican warships are anchored. In the Adriatic are American squadron pa- tr"On the contrary, the French and English ships have left Italian waters with a tactfulness worthy of note. "Here is clearly the situation: America Amer-ica thought it her duty to assume the role of "police agent, to protect the Jug'o-Slavs and to prevent violation of their rights. In order to attain her aim America herself is violating a (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) EW BlIilD COUP IS FEED . (Continued From Page One.) sacred right ami is grazing a worse danger with a strange carelessness. T"he presence of American warships in Italian waters to act 1 as a police agent is I wpn"t say improper but a startling violation of the oldest customs' cus-toms' between eivilized countries. ' ' PARIS, Nov. 15. Gabriele d'Annun-zio, d'Annun-zio, the insurgent Italian commander of Fiunie. is engaged in auother adventure adven-ture along the Dalmatian coast, according accord-ing to advices reaching the peace conference con-ference here. He sailed from Flume on the Italian torpedo boat Nullo. accompanied accom-panied by a steamer carrying 300 shock troops, the reports state. He was said to have been followed by an Italian warship, which was merely observing his movements. The debarkation debarka-tion point on the Dalmatian coast is not known, but it is thought likely that Zara has been selected. It is not believed be-lieved he would go to Spaiato, which is jrarrisoned by the Jugo-Slavs, with the surrounding waters controlled by Rear Admiral Andrews of the United States The advices to the American peace delegation were from Vice Consul O'Hara at Trieste. He forwarded the report there -that d'Annunzio had left Fiunie on the Nnllo and had effected a landing on the Dalmatian coastline. Importance is attached in peace conference con-ference circles to d'Annunzio 's movements, move-ments, because Sunday is election day in Jtalv, with Fiume the chief issue. It is generally thought that he is seeking seek-ing to carry out a Bpectacolar operation to strengthen the Fiume party, which is reported in Paris to have lost considerable consid-erable grouud in Italv during the past three weeks. The Italian navy was said to be wavering perceptibly in its support sup-port of d'Annunzio.