t the laws of Romulus did not teach you such fraternity. We have also
seen you striking women in the street and disembowelling a child. What
are we to think of that, _fratelli d'Italia_? Excuse us, but we are not
accustomed to such incidents. Is it not natural that the legendary,
gallant spirit of our sailors should infect the crowd? Our bluejackets
have looked in vain for the three colours which are dear to them and
which you have excluded utterly from all your rows of flags. Well, in
default of them, they had no choice but to array themselves in the
cockades which dainty hands pinned on their uniforms.... And our
'poilus,' in their faded, mud-smeared garments walk along 'your'
streets, disdainfully regarded by your dazzling and pomaded Staff. Do
you remember that these unshaven fellows who thrust back the Boche in
1918 are the descendants of those who in 1793 conquered Italy and Europe
with bare feet? Therefore do not strike your breasts if now and then a
smile involuntarily appears upon their lips. O you who henceforth will
be known as the immortal heroes of the Piave, if our fellows see to-day
so many noble breasts, it was not seldom that they saw another portion
of your bodies."

ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS

"Yes, but that has nothing to do," some people will say, "with Rieka's
economical position. We admit that Croatia has the historical right to
the town, but we wish to be satisfied that the Croats are not moved by
reasons that would cause Rieka's ruin. It may be nowadays, owing to the
unholy alliance between Magyars and Italians, that the town, with
respect to its trade, is more in the Italian sphere than in that of
Yugoslavia." The answer to this is that Italy's share of the value of
the imports into Rieka in 1911 was 7.5 per cent. of the total, while her
share of the value of the exports amounted to 13 per cent., which proves
that Italy depends commercially more on Rieka's hinterland than does
that hinterland upon Italy. It seems to be of less significance that the
millionaires of Rieka are mostly Croats, for they might conceivably have
enriched themselves by trade with Italy. But of the nine banks, previous
to the War the Italianists were in exclusive possession of none, while
the Croats had four; of the eight shipping companies three were Croat,
three were Magyar, one British, one German--not one Italian. It is true
that some Italian writers lay it down that Rieka's progress should be
co-ordinated with that o