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America's boys did It. without waiting for their dads!

Wouldn't It be fine If the profiteers celebrate by dropping price*!

All the gloss has been rubbed off that “made in Germany" trademark. Sitting on thrones Is becoming more end more certainly a nonessentlnl Industry.

Why not make the kaiser foreman of i, Hun chalu gang to repair ravaged Belgium? Having licked Germany, it may be that eventually we can conquer H. C. L. In America.

At the same tl to print news yo plain next day.

Just because the war "is over Is no . Reason why small bore politics should become ubiquitous. The. food controller says we can h:>\e two spoonfuls of t-ugnr for our les now. Sw.-ct of him.

Rug beater* have raised price*. The bug In the rug m-cuu U.uud to remain *nug for a long time.

Something tells u» France !• going lo show our boys a mighty good time In the Interim of nwonstruction. t'ifarettc smoking used to be regarded a* a had habit. But that was la the old days, before the war.

It will help n gna. <b Infant uatiotiH that nrv t Wtart out in life wfli i-h-K

FIUML ^ 1 WAR t §i

| AMERICAN-TROOPS PREVENT CLASH WHILE FUTURE OF GREAT BALKAN PORT IS BEING DETERMINED

By LLOYD ALLEN. Special Staff CarrsspondenL fCopyright, till. Western Newapaper Union ) >11 ME.—Jammed with allied troops. mainly Italian Infantrymen, and with Its harbor crowded with warships. Flume, once the property of Austria, one of the fine deep-water ports on the Istrian peninsula opposite Italy, was a veritable volcano durit£ the early pea<-e conference day*. The great war had started In the Balkans, of which Flume Is a part, find for a time, while the peace conference was getting «iown to bUElnea*. it seemed altogether possible that there wonld be a final flare-up Id Flume before the European battle flags were

finally furled.

Before Uie war had actually ceased—before Austria had signed an armistice with tile Italian supreme command—trouble started in Flume with the evacuation of the Austrian officials who had governed the town. Two or three day* before the armistice was signed the Croatia ns. representing the Jugo-SIar state being formed of Balkan peo-

ples. endeavored to seise the city and keep the Italian resident* from setting up a form of local government, Italian* Ir Flume said. That was early In November. By the middle of January, when I visited the city with ‘he first party of newspaper men permitted In the region after the cessation of hostilities, the Jugo-Slavs had not lost hope of Anally owning Flume; nnd the Italian* there, harked by a dlviaion of Infantry, liad not lost one whit of their rotbnalaxm for retaining this port for their own nation. Ktrcet clashes were frequent between

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Uicsc group* and serious trouble was threatened.

the thought that back In Pari*

It wa* _

Were assembling fully de-

termined to settle once for all the possibility of war. that ennbh-d one to go through Flume without making the prediction that the war was in Its

Infancy rather than at its end.

reason Flume wn* not in-

cluded in the list of town* alloted Italy In that now famous pact of London, which wn* signed by the allies Juat before Italy entered the war. I oU and Triale. ports on the Adriatic, and alt* ated on the Istrian peninsula, were given to Italy. Itnllr.n possrvslun tbc Ust-named cities was more or 1,.** unquestioned. But Flume v-a litera j a o Man a Land when the pm re conference »«rted. alii...ugh neither Italy nor the Jugo-Siava

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would admit

What else could one expect of a nation that hlt.be* It* women tx—Ide the ox.ti to pull the plows on It* farms} Th. profiteers would like yon n great deal better If sou wouldn't squeal so loud when tbej Jab the gaff Into you. The Americans' nonsense 1* now •bout as appalling to knlarrlsm n» the crown prim-!-'* Idea of war as yreat fun.

Amec can* at Med.ator*.

America had a really prominent part In the affr.lr. a noncommltal |«rt. because we w.-re no, «me Of the nation* signing the pact of Ixmdoa. In every re*| R xv »c were neutral. Bat we had ot» v.arwhlp end four destroyers In the harbor, snd a battalion of soldiers nsbore, and our color* w.-rr- <b.er-d with .-nUiu*!u-ni by U.tb elements

contesting for p<m.-xwBian of the city.

America's f*.pulariry may In measure lxJurigca by the far, that oue .rf ,h- local botelhad Jnti been rrchtutencl Uot.-J WU*oa. nnd there Were num.-tou- American flag* in evidence.

r!*o pictures Of Preiddent U'ilnon.

Willie small in number—the American soldiery numben-l «.ly a battalion-r.ur troop, had a pn-s tige tlmt wa* wholly out of proponioa to their

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in. Strew, and maintaining quic was divid e anmug ih,. four allied nation.. In this >.t, Am.-r l-au ti...... had „ne quarter of the work to tx-r form, since «a<-ti .trcct patrol wa* cou"-—~< -»

i^iur soldier*—a Frenchman, an Italian. Tommy and an American. They walked

al.rea«t. nnd you could see *e

a Britl-b

r tin-

h group* In

rity from one of ,hr

prlnrijuil busi

Ksmehow or other tb« patrols managed to converse with each other. The American* and English . oul.l understand one another, of course

the Italian and French «-uu!tl talk. I*.rol there were usually one or

lord*

Then in each

men that

* take to a!roblles. It will •od roads to

•Itbcr Latin or English, so 1 fhouble In trnneiniiilD; a an buys were native, of «I. »V Uliam Everson, tiicir i Indiana. Among un .

fellow. mainly

Flume, as well as other sections of the Dalmatian coast, that rocky stretch of country that la located on the Adriatic shore opposite Italy. Dr. Antoulo tiros.Ich. acting president of the Flume loterantlomil council, a tmlltlcal group elected by the citizens of Italian descent in town, directly accused the French of backing U.-Jugo-Slavs. while Vice Admiral Cngal of the Italian navy, conmiandlnr the port of Pola. a few tulle* up the coast from Fiutue. repeated the accusation and strengthened it “The Jugo-Slavs." Admiral Cagnl said, “are peoples that formed c large portion of the old Austrian army. They remained faithful to Austria until the final defeat. They fought Italy to the last ditch. Now these same troop* are being armed by the French, against Italy. We understand the move iw-rfcctlj." Other Italian official* of leaser rank repeated the assertion In one form nr another. This. In brief, was the kernel 'of the problem, not only of Flume, but of most of the lands along the Balkan side .,f the Adriatic. No oue. except the most |m|*res*loi;uble. pretend.-d to txTiev the titur.tinn would develop Into a real war. The solution wa* to be some kind of a compromise to be nuide ut the peace •vuf-reoce. Thomas N'el-ou Rage. American ambassador at Rome, wn* of the opinion that a satisfactory cumpromiae woluliou could bf arrived at. But be asserted that. In hi* belief, the Italian people would fight for what they considered their right* in case the Italian claim* to the eastern Adriatic shore

trace ignored

The ambassador did not mean that the peace conference would award Italy every Inch of land* claimed la tht- region. Other American diplomats who were familiar wlth the problem expreased virtually the wain, belief—thr.t Italy Is entitled to a very fair ruu*;<lrraUoa of her Istrian and Dalmatian rialm*. but that these claims will probably not lx- fully awarded. Then- wn* s- me talk in seminfflrinl quarters of an Interuatlouallaetf Flume—a kind of free port— serving Hungary, the Balkans, nnd the Jatrinn |x»nItivola i* t!.' t - .nsshlptnen: of overseas freight. Prlx* Worth Seeking. Flume I* a prize worth striving for. Whatever flag linn! I y file* from It* government offices will wave oicr a town famous for the beauty of its bull.Uug* and lbe amplitude of Its docking facill-

nf more than 6«I.OHO.OOO the HunmagnttCMit stone wharves along mile of waterfront, where the big tip* can tie up and unload. The principal business street of the • — hand you havi- a forest of toasts way. aeroa* a paved street, is a vista :<-«* liOD~ * and bote’s. I bare are W.OO) i«t.ple. hundreds of - . en languag- > a* i matter of everyI altan, French. ‘Jeriuan. Hungarian r.- the priucl|iBt toaguea. The other the tnoev comiuon tongue* <jf ■•w ttirltidlng the front!*u. tongue, however, tv r.dmitiedly the luge of Ilume. f„r the reason that a hr cltlscL* ilalm Italian ancestry, the town cl a I m* that 30,000 of the : uta are Italian, and pointed to the . •viiool# of Ihe city are Italian, as i.scrtption* on P«i jxr cent of the All of Which he < .n-ldered a* fair tallaa character of tin- place, which erred through cculu Tcs of Austrian

At a eoef garian* built nearly half a ocean-going > docks face 11 city. On the

day n.ctlor. and Engllsl,

The argument uaed by the ItallSn oflicials everywhere, for final posscaslon o> Florte. >« baaed on the declsmtinn that Hume Is as ranch a Jwvrt of Italy, p* far as ehameu-r of population Is concerned, as Venice, or Milan, and that, therefore, under I “resident WUnoo's doctrine of self-determination of people*, the city, by an election and consent of It* Inhabitant*, should Ih come a permanent part of the Italian ttnllon. During the peace conference Frame had piobably the largest an! most liberally assorted police force of any town in Europe. Xhe»v wn* an entire division o! Italian Intuk ry there, commanded by Gen. D1 San Marrsno. It wa* this coDtineecp. entering the city November IT. 1018, that gave the Italian International council, and the tdrongly pro-ltnlian bostil of aidermen. the authority to discourage the aspiration* of aomo Croatian troop* (Jugo-Slavs) that had entered the town iir.n?"dla!eiy after the Italran-AustriuB armistice was signed, endeavoriug to mart a Jugo slav regime at once. (ieneral Tranle commandi-d n regiment of French and Serbian woldler*. There w ns r.ls«« a regiment of British soldier* there. In charge of Brigadier tieneral Gor-di-n. with Sir Thomas Plot on as senior British port officer. In the harbor an American. Admiral Bullard, wa* at the brad of the American naval affair; .aboard the cruiser Blnulugtiam. The American force afloat consisted of the four dp stroyers Stribling, Gregory, Luce nnd Caesar. We heard Hint the Olympia. Admirai Dewey'* flagship at the battle of Manila bay and lately from the Ice-bound Russian port, of Archangel. was due to arrive In a few days with en outfit of marines. Food Prices Tumble. As to the people of Flume, they were commencing to enjoy the fruit* of peace, even though their town iKwsesvod n warlike a*i>ect; the food blockade bad been broken and high prices bad tumbled. With the arrival of the first allied foodshlp* ihe terrible war price* common In Flume, r.s well as in other portions of Austria, became a memory The food control policy of the Austrian*, ns wd! : Mt the Germans, had iwen I unde menially wrong. All through the war the rich could buy foodstuffs, and could hoard, while the pior bad to get along the best way possible. Prices consequently attained ea unheard of levt-L Rice, of which large quantities are consumed even la p-ece time*, cost g]o a iiound, an-1 aoaa after the *rml*tice wa* signed dropped to 45 rents a pound, wlilrti was high enough, everyone granted. During the war day* wheat flmir cost from $4 to fd a |a>und; beet sugar retailed at $3 a pound; owa flour rust $4 a pound. Further north tu Au>trim pri<«* were even higher. On accohnt o. the shortage In the supply of linen aiid cotton g‘*»d* the com of these materials a!so •oared. Thread, during the war. emt $S2 a *|uo! in ITutov One linen sheet cost 6175; a suit «.r clothing made by a tailor cost $000, and on ordinary cotton shirt cost $00. Shoe* made of lea-b-er and l-either suhstitute* brought $225. Tea and coffee, e-pecially the latter, which la largely used in the Balkans, cost $35 a pound. The death rate among the very young and the very old wn* horrible during the war days. Nat only was the younger generation, bora Just prior to the war. n great sufferer from the food shortage. but the babies born this year arc physically and mentally unfit. This Is true not only In Flume and the Istrian peninsula, but throughout Ilungej-y nnd Austria, men who had Investigated the kUub tion ’aid me. American food expert* verified the KUt-UDCUtS. In the mind's eye of Italian dlbcial*. Flume 1* net a war-ravaged city, but the begtantug of a pro*p«TOii* njetroiw!!*, |>eoph-d by Italian* largely and open to the peoples of the world. Italy sacrificed tiJU.OUO men killed in action, and nearly a Million wounded. In order to overcome German domination through central Europe, and also to restore to Italy some of those land* that are adjacent to the motherland. The Italian* are advamlng u strictly military argument for p»--»ti'»o of Flume and a part of the Dalmatian coast at least. No, only are these laud* largely peopled with Italians who spmv the lunguage. but the bind* tbeiUM-ives possess advantage. In a military way Unit Itaiy mast take Into consideration if she t» to develop into a ttrocta** nation.

to Brindisi, hour* steal and the .x to defend.

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