he Italians had made up their minds that go he must.
He had objected far too vigorously to their methods--not approving, for
example, of the written permit which was given in the autumn to the
people of two villages in Krk, on which it stated that these people
could supply themselves with timber at Grdnje. This was a State forest,
rented by a certain man; but the Italians acknowledged that what they
wanted was adherents, and these grateful villagers, if there should be a
plebiscite, would vote for them. The man appealed to justice, but the
judge received a verbal order not to act. The villagers were given a
general amnesty on January 1, an Italian flag was hoisted at the judge's
office--the judge had gone away. Another transaction which the bishop
had resented was after a visit paid by the captain and another officer
of the French warship _Annamite_ to the Yugoslav Reading-Rooms at
Lo[vs]inj mali (Lussinpiccolo); a priest and two other gentlemen had
escorted their guests to the harbour at 11 p.m.; during the night all
three were arrested and the priest deported. When the _Annamite_ put in
at the lofty island of Cres (Cherso) and a couple of officers went to
the Franciscan monastery, it resulted in the monastery being closed and
the monks removed. Their simple act of courtesy was, said the Italians,
propaganda. From Lo[vs]inj mali and Cres five ladies were collected,
four of them being teachers and one the wife of the pilot,
Sindi[vc]i['c]. They were guilty of having greeted the French, and on
account of this were taken to the prison at Pola. Afterwards in Venice
they were kept for six weeks in the company of prostitutes and from
there they passed to Sardinia, on which island they were retained for
nine months. As for Dr. Mahni['c], he set sail on April 4 at 6 a.m.
Being asked whither he would like to go, he said he wished to be put
down at Zengg on the mainland. "Excellent," said the Italians; but after
a few minutes they said they had received a radio from Pola that the
bishop must be taken to Ancona. He was afterwards allowed to live in a
monastery near Rome.

UNHAPPY POLA

The Italians had not been two days in Pola--in which arsenal town the
population, unlike that of the country, mostly uses the Italian
language--when they made themselves disliked by both parties. The
President of the Italian National Council was told by the Admiral that
an Austrian crown was to be worth forty Italian centesimi. This, said
the A