iovanoni laid about him with a dog-whip. Several of the soldiers made
for a group of four young fellows; three of them escaped and the fourth,
Peter Kraljevi['c], was struck with a rifle so severely across the face
that he was bathed in blood. As he tried to defend himself he was shot
at from a distance of three paces: one bullet went through his nose,
another wounded him in the forehead. He fell to the ground, and a
teacher, Mrs. Maria Grubisi['c], who had witnessed the whole incident,
sank down unconscious at his side and was covered with his blood.
Various other people were injured--three little girls received rifle
shots in their bodies. All the main streets were shut off and eight
machine guns were placed in readiness. But the people were not to be
intimidated, and when the Englishmen arrived their national
consciousness was displayed. As a result Peter [vC]arap was knocked
unconscious with a mighty blow of a musket, the fourteen-year-old Joseph
Sule[vz]i['c] had a similar experience, and among many others who were
assaulted we will only mention an ex-official, Anthony Pi[vz]tuli['c], a
man of sixty, who was struck twice with a rifle on his stomach and then
prevented from going home but chased out into the fields.... It seemed
as if it would be impossible for our people to have a conversation with
the Englishmen, but at last twenty men and twelve girls managed to reach
that house...."

THE PROTEST OF AN ITALIAN JOURNALIST

I would also give Signor Buonfiglio's dispatch from this island--it
appeared in the _Corriere d'Italia_ of June 16--but more than
three-quarters of it is devoted to an account of some Dalmatian
delegates who were received, during the War, by Francis Joseph and
expressed their loyalty. The deputation was introduced by Dr.
Iv[vc]evi['c], a Croat; and if Signor Buonfiglio wants us to deduce from
this how ardently the Croats loved the Habsburgs he will have to give
some other explanation for the very loyal speeches of his countryman,
Dr. Ziliotto of Zadar. But I presume that his editor did not send Signor
Buonfiglio on this journey to the end that he should write of what
official speakers saw fit to say during the War. As for the incidents we
witnessed and the islanders' aspirations, he merely says that their
welcome to us was an artificial affair which the Yugoslav committees,
with extreme effort, had organized--and I don't think that that is a
very illuminating observation.

We learned that on