: "Novembre 1918" and on the upper one "Italia Vincitrice"
(Victorious Italy). We were taken by several Italian officers to look
at this. They were so proud of it that they presented us with
photographs of the monument in its altered state. I fear that the
Italian mentality escapes me. I should not have written anything about
them.

THEIR TRUCULENCE AT KOR[vC]ULA

They landed on the same day, November 3, on the beautiful and prosperous
island of Kor[vc]ula (Curzola), putting ashore at Velaluka, the western
harbour. With the exception of five families, all the people are
Yugoslavs; and the Italians, who sailed in under a white flag, announced
that they had come as friends of the Yugoslavs and of the Entente, to
preserve order and to protect them against submarines. On the 5th, they
went to the town of Kor[vc]ula, where one of the two officers,
Lieutenant Poggi, of the navy, put his assurances in writing, as he had
done at Velaluka. He protested against the word "Occupation." On the 7th
they returned to Velaluka and on the 12th went back, with about a
hundred men, to Kor[vc]ula. Once more he wrote that he had not come to
occupy the island; he added, though, that the district officials should
act on the opposite peninsula of Sabioncello in the name of the
Yugoslavs, but over Kor[vc]ula and the island of Lastovo (Lagosta) in
the name of Italy--not of the Entente. He wanted to remove the Yugoslav
flags from public buildings and substitute Italian flags. When he was
reminded of what he had said with regard to the Entente, he exclaimed:
"No, no! This is Italy!" The chief district official protested, and
refused to carry out Lieut. Poggi's injunctions, nor were the Italians
able to do so. This officer remained at Kor[vc]ula, requisitioning
houses and hoisting as many Italian flags as he could. He issued an
order that after 6.30 p.m. not more than three persons were allowed to
come together in the streets. His men used to offer food to the women of
the place, who declined it; after which the food was given to the
children, who were previously photographed in an imploring attitude.
There was some trouble on December 15 when the _Leonidas_, an American
ship, came in with a number of mine-sweepers. Apparently the Yugoslavs
contravened the Italian regulations by omitting to ask whether their
band might play in the harbour, but, on the supposition that this would
not be accorded to them, went down to the harbour just as if they we