ally and inevitably moved the great majority of the
bystanders and was the actual cause of outrages. This act was approved
by the Italian Naval Authorities, who accordingly are to be considered
responsible for these disorders.... Several civilians and Serbian
soldiers were wounded." The report adds that some Italian sailors were
armed with knives and revolvers, contrary to the regulations of the
Italian Naval Authorities, and concludes with these words: "By arresting
some citizens the Italian sailors have committed an illegal act, which
they carried out according to instructions that were given them by the
Italian Naval Authorities. Accordingly the Commission considers these
authorities responsible for the injuries inflicted on the Serbian
soldiers."

NEVERTHELESS THE TYRANNY CONTINUES

But in many parts of Dalmatia and the islands the Italians had no fear
of such a Commission. Let us see what they had been doing in the
neighbourhood of Zadar, the old capital. Apart from the usual
prohibitions with respect to newspapers and so forth, the municipalities
were dissolved and an Italian commissary installed. Their first task was
to introduce the Italian language and make it obligatory, although the
commissary's own employees would often be not more acquainted with it
than with Hindustani. Eighty-five per cent. of the civil servants in the
occupied territory were Yugoslavs; during March and April 1919 they were
deprived of their salaries because they had declined, in accordance with
the existing laws and particularly in accordance with the terms of the
Armistice, to make a request in Italian to the Provisional Government
that they should be confirmed in their posts. This outrageous order,
which left hundreds of families without the means of subsistence, was
not merely illegal--let alone inhumane--but was in contradiction with an
earlier order issued by Admiral Millo, which was placarded throughout
the territory and which confirmed in their posts all the civil
employees. However, the Italians were unsuccessful in their efforts to
obtain these signatures, though they did not abandon their watchword:
"Either Italy or starvation!" They never ceased to persecute the
peasants of the surrounding country and islands. Commands, menaces,
blows inflicted by carabinieri and officers, houses searched night after
night, and so on.... In the second half of February it was intended to
conduct a number of peasants, accompanied by Italian f