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Show V V -w -r v y v v v kalians Fighting Poet With Starvation HUME PEOPLE ' SET INVITATION TO BISK LIKES D'Annunzio's Latest Proclamation Proclama-tion Calls on Citizens for Limit in Sacrifice ITALIANS SIT DOWN TO WAIT FOR HUNGER Strange Situation Develops on Eastern Shore of Adn atic Sea LONDON". Dec 2 4 Starvation Is expected soon to bring to an end the ! "state of war" now existing between ; ihe "regency of Quarnero" at FiUtne nd the kingdom of Ital . The forty-slght-hour time limit given civilians to leave the city expired at 0 o'clock last night and It appears that the Italian Ital-ian government troops have settled down to wait for hunger to defeat d'Anhunslo's plan to combat the enforcement en-forcement of the treaty of Rapallo , ne government soldier is reported to ; have been killed by a bomb thrown by one of the d'Annunzio lerionarlea, and shots are said to have been fired at an Italian destroyer, but thus far the "war" has not been marked by i any notable hostilities. BARRAGE n (HK i S A barrage of proclamations have beep hurled Into the alyafl amps of I V nnunxlo and General Caviglla. com-mander com-mander of the government troops forming ihe cordon about Flume. These fIVonoitncerh'edtJ have kept public pub-lic Intereitt " entered, for the time being be-ing at least, in the strange situation that has developed on the eastern; i shore of the Adriatic IN I l l s g t KlH D'Annunzio's latest proclamation invites in-vites the people of Uiume lo sacrifice their lives and fortunes in opposing, the carrying out of the Rapallo pact. I i The people, however do not seem to ) be very anxious to follow his advice. ' in spite of orders from the poet-sol- ' dler forbidding anyone leaving Plume, several hundred person are said to have fled The fact that some Russian troops, i formerly ,i p..rt of General Wrangol's t army, have been landed In Dalmatla, has caused apprehension in some ' quarters that they might be used to ' oust d'AnhunSlO from Flume. It Is asserted, however, there Is no lnton-' tion of using the Russians for thlsl purpose |