ITALY’S DANGER.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1919, Page 3

ITALY’S DANGER.

(By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright ) r AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] A CRIITOAL POSITION. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) (ROM® September 23. The difficulty over Fiume is critical. Government is tottering, and the King has convened a Grand Ciunsel of Presidents of Chambers, ex-Premeirs, leaders of parties, and Army and Navy commfinders. Sncli a convocation is unpre;oddented. A .Tijftom ,Premiership is suggested, in an endeavour to conciliate Mr Wilson. : Meanwhile d’Annunzio has made enlarged claims, declaring that Italy must have a port and railway in addition to the city of Fiume. “Even King Emmanuel,” he .says, “would, not he allowed past my sentries, unless he presented himself as the Kina of Fiume. ‘ _ • , Milan newspapers condemn d’Annunzio’s grotesque manifestoes, to “Venedips of Lombardo,” in whicb he says that if half the people of Italy were like those of Fiume, Italy‘would be mistress 1 of half the world.”

The “Corriere” says Italy needs to lie mistress of her own Army, preaching that mutiny is very dangerous. The Army may to-day answer to the Nationalist appeal and to-morrow to Bolshevist incitement. The “Secola” denounces d’Annunzio’s coup as the fruit of delirious vanity.