Grants Pass daily courier., January 08, 1921, Page 6, Image 6

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GUAM'S l’ASH DULY OOVRIKR
PAG* MX
MAKE ADRIATIC
ITALIAN LAKE
D'Annunzio's Ambition as Viewed
by an Englishman.
HAS FAR-REACHING VISION
Sees Flume and Trieste the Gateways
for Economic Penetration—Flume
Merely the NaJI Upon Which the
Poet Hange the Alluring Picture of
an Italian Imperlallam—He Haa
Given a New Voice to Italian A»
pl ration.
I Notice Please!
(Stock on Hand)
The “Old Reliable” Albany Nursery
Wis’.e- to announce that after a thorough recount they still have
left about it HI Lambert < berries (Higjio-t priced < berry on mar­
ket)—too Hardy Franquette Walnuts, a few hardy ApHcota,
Feacheu, Prunes, Pears. Apples and Satsuma Plums (blood red)
—(last named limited to 2).
Also a limited nutnlier of Royal Ann. Bing and Huke Cherries. !#•
paragus and Rhubarb. also fine Ornamentals, such as, Weigelia's,
Syrlngrv-. Lilacs, Wisterias, Clematis, etc., come early as tills Is the
last shipment to reach me this winter.
Call at MIO North 7th street for any of the above, except Saturdays
F. E. Jordan
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Ol'T OF DARKNESS—INTO LIGHT
Out of the old year into the new!
Start the yea.r,right by using one of
our electric flash lights. You will
have a hundred uses for it during
the next twelve months and you can
renew the battery as often as yon
like.
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Phono 85B-R
COLT RIDES INSIDE OF MOTOR CAR
Miss i.u,u Jiisxly, .. ».u. a . ... ■■ . nine,
urougat
her two-menths-old colt. Wickland Laddie, from Edgebrook farm, near Niles
Center, to Chicago, a distance of 12 miles. Inside a sedan automobile
Miss Moody raise»! the colt and It Is so tame that It does not hesitate te
follow her Into her automobile.
The settlement of the Adriatic .prob­
lem and tlie recognition of the Indo-
liendence of Plutue. by the treaty of
Santo Margherita, lends Interest to u
study of D'AnnunxIo and his ambition
to extend Italian supremacy over the
Adriatic, made by a corrusp«>ndent of
the Londou Times. Writing from
Flume about the middle of October,
be said:
Gubrlele D'AnnunxIo Is a sort of
modern Cyrano de Bergerac, with a
little more taleut ami a little less
»ense. The author of the “Journey to
the Moon” lived In extravagant days,
when fair ludles and (x>etlc Meals
were the tilings for which men fought
But D'AnnunxIo- as 1 took occush u
to tell him—lias abandoted women
and song for Ardltl and politics.
'’Higher politics,” was the only cor­
rection he smilingly made, and i<cr-
haps he was right.
For. however
much one may condemn Ids methixls
and abhor Ms alms, there Is no deny­
ing th< fur reaching political effect of
his wools and deeds. He would be
a negligible factor were It not that,
as far us Italy Is concerned, he bus
lifted the Adriatic question out of ti e
sphere of diplomatic compromise and
delude»! Ills fellow countrymen Into
believing that the spoliation of Jng.s
Slavia la a mutt-r of uationul honor
and of vltul Interest. The Italian gov­
ernment la really powerless, became
D’Annunzio, having given a new voice
to Latin aspiration. Ims so swayed the
emotions of one of the most emotional
of peoples that rm on Is dethroned
and liberty and Justice- for wldcli the
war was fought—are flouted.
Let us see what it Is thut D'An­
nunzio wants, und why he wants It—
for Flume Is merely the uall on which
be hangs the alluring picture of an
Italian Imperialism. First, in order to
obtain complete Adriatic supremacy
he st eks to extend the eastern frontier
of Italy so us to include not only the
whole of Gorlzla, Gradient and Istrla.
but considerable portions of Carnlohi
und Croatia, together with the Islands
of the Quarr.ero (Veglla and Cherao).
He wishes Italy to retain Dalmatia
and the Islands of the eustern coast,
and some form of political suzerainty
over a nominally independent Al­
bania and Montenegro. This would
leave Italy In control not only of
Trieste and Flume, but of Zuru. Se-
henlco, Spulato, Cattaro und all the
other ports of tin- Adriatic. Jugo­
slavia would be virtually cut off from
the sea ¿ind redu e l to economic de
pendence upon Italy.
Program Summed Up.
D'Annunzio's whole program may­
be summed up tn a few words: The
aggrandizement of Italy and th«
abasement of Jugo-Slavla. The latter,
he believes, will be retained by Italy's
retaining Dalmatia and political hege­
mony over Montenegro anti Albunla.
To illustrate the economic potenti­
alities of what be claims us the new
frontiers of Italy, he Ims prepared
a very curious mup.
It Is a map of the eastern linlf of
Mittel-Europa, on which Is traced a
triangle:
Trieste-Fiume-Danzlg-Con-
-‘tantinople. It shows very clearly
that any one power controlling both
Trieste and Flume, together with the
railway Junction of St. Peter In Car-
niola, which Is mmedintely behind
om both of them.
and equldlsta»
has an unrl»
gateway for pene-
(ration and
on In Northern and
■tt. Peter In Carnl-
Eastern Eu
< h, is on the main
ola, south
o Vienna and Ber-
line from '1 » »
t express from Lon-
lin, iand tin- •>
<lon tO Coll !
uople runs through
It. It hu» -
lid communications
with Germ»'
i Poland, with Cze-
eho-Sloval; >■
rla and Hungary,
with Ku«* hi *
Ukraine, Transylva-
nla. Koiin...
go-Slavia, Bulgaria
and Con»“
If hah ■ ■
.in both Trieste and
Çlume «1..
iijoy a monopoly of
Handling v . i- r portion of the Im­
port and expor» trade of this Immense
hinterland p.
through the Adrlntlc.
ft Is quite true that a great deal of
this trade baa already been diverted
to ports of northwestern Europe, but
the Adrtntlc route, which offers certain
advantages, more especially for Im­
ports and exports to Austria, Hungary
and the Ukraine, Is the natural and al­
most Indispensable channel for Jugo­
slav trade.
Both Bulgaria and Rotimania fur­
nished Important and growing quanti­
ties of Adriatic business before the
war. It Is certain that, with Trieste
In the hands of Italy, and Flume as
the Adriatic port of the Jugo-Slavs.
there would be a healthy competition,
which would he*>>f the greatest eco­
nomic benefit. One of the arguments
most frequently put forward by D’An­
nunzio's supporters Is that If Flume
was In any but Italian hands It would
he able to compete with Trieste,
whereas with both ports Italian. It
will be possible for them to combine
n order to control Adriatic trade.
This leaves the Interests of Venice
out of the reckoning.
Spurning th* Jugo slavs.
That th« Croatian population of
this part of the worltl should haw
any rights of self determination is
flatly denied by D'AnnunxIo oil the
ground that they fought against Italy
In the war. D'AnnunxIo net er tires of
sculling at "the American prophet be­
coming virtuously Indignant at the
thought of a few thousand Slavs being
placed under the rule of Italy, after
millions of Germans have been handed
over to Poland and CxechoSlovakla.
und millions of Hungarians to Jugo­
slavia, Cxecho Slovakia und llouma-
uia,
hi Flum»* ut least one hears wry lit­
tle of the high soundlug phrases ubout
the "will of the people” und their ut-
tachmeut to Italy. What one hears ts
talk ubout retaining Flume for Italy ut
all costs: “Salvare Flume, u qualuiu-
quo coato!”- not because of Flume, but
because of Italy. I will say thia for
D'Annunzio: ho Is perfectly frank
about it. He never said one word to
me about Italy's right to the things be
has set out to obtain for her. He nev­
er alleged anythiug beyond the asser­
tion that Adriatic supremacy was es­
sential to Italian grt*utuesa, and that It
the Italian government gave up any-
thing they now hold, be would imme­
diately seise It by force,
Noone who bus travele»! through the
area held by the Italian army of occu­
pation. or who has been to Flume and
spokeu with D'AnnunxIo, can doubt
that he could make good his threat and
that he Is right when he doclarva that
the Italian regular forces—both army
and wavy—would refuse to obey the
government and recognise his uuthorl-
ta­
in a dispatch which I sent report­
ing D'Annunzio's detlunce, the Italian
military censorship ut Trieste deleted
a part In which I expressed the belief
that D’Annunzio has the tacit support,
both of Admiral Mill»», commander at
Zara, and of General Cavlglla, who la
at the bead of the army of occupation.
But the fact Is not open to doubt, and
should D'Annunzio start for Home,
neither of them would lift a Unger to
impede hl* progress. On the contrary.
I feel sure that D'Annunzio had good
grounds for his assertion—also i'e-
lete<! from my dispatch—that If he
start»-»! from Flume with 10,000 men
he would arrive ut the gates of the
Eternal City with 1!50.000.
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Man Who Boasted of Having Been In
Thirty Jails Geta Wealth.
Robert W. Patton's penchant for Jails
has brought him luck. He probably
will share half of a $00,000 estate, nc- i
cording to relatives who found Min
through a published interview which
lie gave to a reporter when he sought
winter lodging at a Jail In Concordia,
Kan.
Patton hn»l been arrested for va­
grancy and toll! olllcers he had served i
In 30 Jails so far this year.
He
expressed the hope of bettering his:
record before the end of the year.
Then Patton’s sister at Seward,
Neb., who had not heard from him
for eight years, reed of his longing for
Jail life and hastened to Concordia
with an altorney.
County officials
there were not hospitable, however, j
and refuse»! to board Patton.
As a
result he continued his quest for s
nice wnrm Jail for the winter season,
and went to Chester, Neb., where he
was accommodated.
Patton was lo­
cated by his sister there.
He will
be taken to Lincoln, where the estate
will be divided.
The attorney told officials In Con­
cordia that the will provldeil that Pat­
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1921, or forfeit his rights to the es­
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he will accept the fortune or continue
tils search for a comfortable Jail.
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