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Show ANNUNZIO HOLD I ITALIAN ARMY AGAINST ALLIES TRIESTE, Thursday, Sept. 18. Colonel Col-onel Sicillanr who was sent into Flume by General Badoglio to confer with d'Annunzio, tried to induce thei latter to keep only volunteers and allow al-low soldiers of the regular army to return re-turn to Italy, in order to prevent ihcir rendering themselves liable to severe punishment D'Annunzio refused saying that only the presence of the Italian ;n my would prevent the allies from consld-I consld-I ering flume a rebel city and bom-I bom-I barding It in fact, he added, the ships j of the allies, although they had left j the harbor, were not far away and were ready to return. The French commander, according 'to Colonel Siclliani. has notified d'An-j unzio that if the well supplied Stort forming the base of the Franco-Ser-I bian troops in the Orient, were I touched, he would fire on the city. Thus far there has been virtually no j disorder in Fiume. n n |