he
break-up of Austria or until we Yugoslav legion were disarmed
by Italians and as a reward for our participation in the war we
were interned as prisoners of war at Casale di Altamura in the
province of Bari. Four days after my internment I succeeded in
sliding away, so that on the Christmas Eve I was again in
Dalmatia. (Signed) JAKOV DELONGA."]

[Footnote 21:

"In tra 'l gregge che misero e raro
L'asburgese predon t' ha lasciato,
Perche piangi, o fratello croato,
Il figiul che in Italia mori."

("There among the woebegone where the most contemptible
Habsburger has abandoned his prey, so that, O my Croat brother,
it weeps for the dear son who died in Italy.")]

[Footnote 22: April 23, 1919.]

[Footnote 23: Cf. _La Slavisation de la Dalmatie._ Paris,
1917.]

[Footnote 24: The Italians are very poorly served by some of
their advocates. For years they persisted in demanding the
execution of whatever in the Treaty or Pact of London was
obnoxious to the Serbs, while they regarded as obsolete another
clause, respecting the formation of a small independent
Albania, which was distasteful to themselves, and--if I rightly
understand the Italophil Mr. H. E. Goad--they were justified
because, forsooth, Bulgaria had entered the War on the other
side. To say that the idea of this small Albania, with
corresponding compensations to the Serbs and Greeks, was held
out as a bribe to the Bulgars does not seem to me a very wise
remark. However, "ne croyez pas le pere Bonnet," said
Montesquieu, "lorsqu'il dit du mal de moi, ni moi-meme lorsque
je dis du mal du pere Bonnet, parce que nous nous sommes
brouilles." Let the reader trust in nothing but the facts, and
I hope that those which I present are not an unfair selection.]

[Footnote 25: When Supilo, the late Dalmatian leader, heard
about the secret Treaty, he went to Petrograd and saw Sazonov.
The interview is said to have been stormy, for the Russian
Minister, according to the _Primorske Novine_ (April 23, 1919),
"had not the most elementary knowledge of the Slav nature of
Dalmatia, still less of Istria, Triest, Gorica and the rest."
Mr. Asquith, whom Supilo afterwards visited in London, is said
to have been no better informed than Sazonov.]

[Footnote 26: And appearing subsequently in Londo