ed for the people of
Dalmatia, who are Slav in a crushing majority. But this is
precisely the negation of the Treaty of London."]

[Footnote 17: The Italianist employes of the Rieka town council
who took the census in 1910 asked the humbler classes if they
were acquainted with the Italian language; those from whom they
received an affirmative reply were put down as Italians. Had
they, on the other hand, asked the people if they spoke
Croatian and put down as Croats those who answered yes, there
would, in the opinion of an expert, Dr. Arthur Gavazzi, have
remained not one single Italian--certainly not the members of
the Italian National Council--as everyone, he says, speaks and
knows Croat. This is a fairly emphatic proof that the fortunes
of Rieka are bound up with those of its suburbs and the
hinterland.]

[Footnote 18: Being the senior in rank of the Allied Generals,
General Grazioli claimed supreme command of all the Allied
troops, but this the French General refused, maintaining--much
to the disgust of the Italians--that he was under the orders of
Franchet d'Esperey, who was then in command of the Army of the
Orient. The Italians were so determined to preserve in their
own hands the military supremacy that a very senior General,
one Caneva, was kept in the background of the palace with the
sole object of stepping forward if any Allied officer senior to
General Grazioli should by chance be posted to the town. The
disrespectful Allies used to call Caneva "the man in the
cellar."]

[Footnote 19: The town of Yugoslavia which, after Austria's
collapse, was stirred the most profoundly by its postage stamps
was Zagreb. In order to commemorate the establishment of the
new State the Croatian Post Office published four stamps, which
were on sale on November 29. The whole edition consisted of
100,000 stamps, of which 24,000 were allotted to Zagreb, the
rest going to other parts of the province. It was obvious that
there would be a great demand for these stamps, and in order to
check any abuses or clandestine traffic it was decided that
they should be sold nowhere but at the post offices, also that
each purchaser would only be allowed to buy a limited quantity.
At 8 a.m. the sale began, but at seven many hundreds of people
were waiting outside the chief post office, the