e, as the people's life was being made
intolerable, and for the reason that they would not trample under foot
everything which they regard as holy. But, according to _La Dalmazia_, the
indignant Italian population sent to the Paris Conference a vibrating
telegram, which begged for immediate annexation to Italy, and protested
against those who in an unworthy and ugly manner had disturbed the place's
beautiful tranquillity.... The prisoners were court-martialled at Zadar and
condemned to terms that varied from four to eight months--seven of the
accused, including Father Rabadan and two other Dominicans, receiving the
severest sentence.... I hope the indignant Italian population dispatched,
later on, a telegram of thanks to the Paris Conference for having ordered
Yugoslavia to guarantee the position of the handful of Italians to be left
in Yugoslav territory, and even their special commercial interests in
Dalmatia; while the half million Slovenes and Croats whom Italy proposed to
annex were not to be protected by an equivalent guarantee. It would be
ridiculous to bind with such conditions a Great, Liberal Power.

After this it was no great surprise to hear, on reaching Hvar, the
capital of the island, that our further progress was impeded. The pale
Commandant of sinister aspect, this time a naval officer, Lieut.
Vincenzo Villa, showed us a telegram from the Vice-Admiral at
Kor[vc]ula, which said that we were not to be allowed to speak to any of
the inhabitants. "To explore the islands there is some little
difficulty," said Burton in a lecture on the ruined cities, which he
visited when he was Consul at Triest. Early in the morning our cook, who
went ashore to see what he could buy, was immediately arrested by the
carabinieri, who were keeping order very much like those "bravissimi
citadini" who in the autumn of 1870, when many of the citizens of Rome
were at loggerheads with the Vatican, arrested and disarmed all those
adherents of the Papacy who showed their noses outside the Vatican's
portals. Our cook was afterwards released by the Commandant, who allowed
him to visit the market, escorted by carabinieri. After that we returned
to Split, and from there to Zadar, in order to see Admiral Millo.

One would like to know what the Admiral would have said if this
interview had taken place a few months later when, in alliance with
Gabriele d'Annunzio, he was in open, armed revolt against the Government
of Italy. The dark-bearded