away in the midst of the recital and refrained from
following the band, which later on paraded the town. Only the Italians,
he said, exhibited the proper feeling. They did more than that; for with
the same date, July 31, one finds an interesting letter from the
"Societa del Tiro al Bersaglio" of Split, which called itself a shooting
club, but was not in possession of arms; it was, as a matter of fact, a
gymnastic society with a political object. The secretary, Luigi Puisina,
wrote on the 31st to the authorities, to say that they had determined to
offer themselves in uniform for any service of a military nature ("per
quei qualsiasi servizi di carattere militare"). Bukvich reported on
August 3 (Information No. 268) that for the present these gymnasts will
be used as special constables, and he adds, to one's astonishment, that
this has caused the Slav _intelligentsia_ to be still more profoundly
depressed. Nothing could elude the eagle eye of Bukvich: on December 17,
1914, he noted that the small boys in the streets were winking and
smiling at each other in consequence of the news that the Austrians had
been driven out of Belgrade.

When Italy entered the War a handful of Dalmatian Italians--I believe
six from Zadar and two from Split--went to serve in the Italian army.
Five others, four of them from Zadar, were interned at Graz; with these
exceptions the Italians and Italianists were very much more faithful to
the Austrian Empire than were the Croats, hundreds of whom were hanged
or shot or lodged in fortresses. The Italians, however, persist in
charging the Croats with unbounded fidelity; in fact, it is one of their
most powerful arguments. They themselves in Split continued to do what
the Austrians expected of them: those who were of military age became
units of the army, while the rest of them, with one exception, were not
incommoded. The President of their club, the "Cabinetto di Lettura,"
that Dr. Salvi of whom we have heard, was not only most assiduous in
addressing letters of devotion and fidelity to the Emperor, in promoting
all kinds of patriotic Austrian manifestations, but as the particular
friend of Mr. Tszilvas, the Austrian sub-prefect, he was wont to go down
with him to the harbour and watch the embarkation, in chains, of the
Slav _intelligentsia_. The only Italian who suffered this fate was a Mr.
Tocigl, with whom Dr. Salvi had had a personal difference.

CONSEQUENT SUSPICION OF THIS MINORITY

One can