, ordered
the doctor to dictate the whole affair and said that if nothing else
could be done he would go direct to His Majesty. Then standing up he
struck the table, in the presence of his staff, of Dr. Grgin of Split
and of the railway commandant Captain Bergmann, and "Wir sind doch die
groessten Schuften!" he exclaimed ("After all, it is we who are the
biggest scoundrels!").... When the Yugoslavs overthrew the Austrian
Government at Knin, the doctor, a kindly-looking, little, bald man, made
a speech to the prisoners from the balcony of the town hall. He armed
two of the Italians and ten French prisoners, whom he told off to guard
the magazine. The two Italians (Cirillo Tomba and Mario Favelli)
vanished after a couple of days; the French remained for a week, and
when a French destroyer arrived at Split they were taken there, not as
prisoners but as soldiers, bearing arms. Dr. Bogi['c] was a member of
the National Committee at Knin, and as such he wrote to a colleague at
Drni[vs] to ask him whether the Italian troops were coming up from
[vS]ibenik. This letter was his undoing. The reason he wrote it was
because the population at Knin was extremely agitated by the prospective
occupation and begged him to ascertain the latest news. He should have
remembered, no doubt, that the Italians regarded this as enemy country
and that to make inquiries with regard to the movement of troops was a
crime. An officer came and asked him, in the General's name, if he would
kindly take part in a conference; on reaching the place which was
indicated he found himself surrounded by carabinieri. Their captain, a
certain Albano, said that he and two or three others must go to
[vS]ibenik to undergo a short interrogatory, and that as he would return
in two days at the latest it was unnecessary for him to take any money,
clothes or linen. As a matter of fact the doctor had, on the previous
day, been warned from Split that the Italians meant to intern him; but
he laughed--he had done so much for them and he felt so innocent that
it seemed absurd to run away. He could have gone, because he had a
written permit issued to him on January 10 by the 144th Italian infantry
regiment at Knin, which stated that he and his wife might go, whenever
they wished, to Split.

SEVEN HUNDRED OTHERS

During the winter and spring over seven hundred persons, chiefly
belonging to the clerical, the legal and the medical professions, had
been deported from Dalmatia. T