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Show -uu People of Zara Go Wild With Joy Over Their Liberation ZARA, Dalmatia, Wednesday, Nov. C. Captain Deboccard, military governor gov-ernor of Zara, arrived todav and was received with wild onthusiasm by the I citizens. Tho Italian warship which I brought Captain Deboccard was covered cov-ered with floral offerings, while j throughout the city men and women knelt in the streets giving thanks for ! their liberation from the Austrian (yoke. It is stated that previous to the arrival of the Italian military gover-; gover-; nor all the prominent citizens of this typical Venetian city presented a petition peti-tion asking Italy's Intervention. Since the coming of the Italians there has been one delirious celebration, celebra-tion, the bands playing night and day. ' The inhabitauts of Zara at tho present I time number 15,000. Only 200 soldiers havo been landed for the purpose of preserving order. The Austrian officials were allowed to depart in peace, but tho citizens overturned the monument of Francis Joseph and that of Admiral Baron Togetthoff, who defeated Italy's fleet in 1866 when tho Italia0 wcro attempting at-tempting to take Triest and Dalmatia. |