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Show Italian Rebels Take In More Territory 1 I - , . REFUSE TO OBEY I Rebel Italians Under Annunzio Still in Fiume. CITY INVESTED Marines Are Landed to Protect Interests of Americans. I PARIS, Sept. 22 Troops under Gabriele d'Annunzio, the insurgent Italian commander at Fiume, have begun be-gun extending their zone of occupation Into Jugo-Slav territory, according to the Jugo-Slav delegation in Pans. Then penetrated seven miles into Jugo-Slavia on Saturday, occupying the heights at Pisniak. dominating the surrounding country. The Jugo-Slavs did not clash with the d'Annunzio forces executing this movement, the delegation staud Doubt Marines Landed LONDON, Sept 22 American navy1 headquarters here, which is In direct communication with Adriatic ports, has no confirmation of the report from Rome last night that American marines have been landed at Buccari, near Flume. Naval authorities here' i are not inclined to credit the report so tar as known, there being no rea . ' son for the United States to intoricn-The intoricn-The fact that an American ship id i in the harbor of Fiume is of no signif- Icance in the opinion of naval offi- cers. WASHINGTON. Sept. 22 The j ! landing of a pany of American ma-, rines at Huccari. near Fiume. reported' I last night in dispatches irorn Milan anrl Rome, undoubtedly was by order , of Rear Admiral Phillip Andrews commander ol the Mediterranean squadron, as the naw department. BO far as could be learned early today, had received no advices on the sub-: Jed Officials said Admiral Andrews without question had authority to or- ( i der a landing party asnore in event 'any American interests were endan-' 1 gcred b the attempted forcible an- j nexation of Flume to Italy by the d'Annunzio forces. ROME, Sept. 22. American marines have been landed at Buccari, a small town on an arm of the Culf of Quai-nero, Quai-nero, about ten miles southea.-l ol Flume, say s a dispatch to the Messag-' Messag-' ro One American ship is in Fiume harbor, according to dispatches bur the anchorage is a considerable dis-j dis-j tance from the city General Badoglio's ultimatum to the d'Annunzio soldiers, giving them until un-til Friday night t. leavi Flume, ic sald lo have been modified BO that the time limit would epw last night, an additional 48 hours being given. Flume ts closely invested, but in spite of this fact numbers of volunteers volun-teers have joined the forces of Captain Cap-tain Gabriele d'Annunzio Supreme Council Meeting. FARis, Sept. 22. The supremi council meeting today, decided upon ihe repatriation of the Czecho-Slovak , troops remaining in ."Siberia, about 50.-000 50.-000 in number. The necessary tonnage ill be furnished by the United States, j Great Britain and France. I It was decided that the plebiscite I Iin the Teschen distnct to settle the ouestion whether the region should go I I to Poland or Czecho-Slovakla must take place within three months. Other action taken by tho council was to fix the scale of salaries of the efficers on the inter-allied mission to Germany. |
