l names in Dalmatia has been carefully investigated by a
student at Split. Taking the zone which was made over to the Italians by
the Treaty of London, he found that with the exception of a reef called
Maon, alongside the island of Pago, every island, village, mountain and
river has a Slav name, whereas out of the total of 114 names there were
64 which have no names in Italian; and this is giving the Italians
credit for such words as Sebenico, Zemonico and so forth, which in the
opinion of philologists are merely modifications of the original
[vS]ibenik, Zemunik, etc.

AND ON HVAR

At Starigrad on Hvar the Italians also said that they were
representatives of the Entente, but soon they prohibited the national
colours. Being perhaps aware that in the whole island, with its
population of about 20,000, there were before the War only four or five
Italians who were engaged in selling fruit, their countrymen in November
1918 did their best, by the distribution of other commodities--rice,
flour and macaroni--to make some more Italians. They succeeded at
Starigrad in obtaining fifteen or twenty recruits. And they made it
obvious that it would be more comfortable to be an Italian than a
Yugoslav. The local Reading-Rooms, whose committee had received no
previous warning, fell so greatly under the displeasure of the Italians
that one night after ten o'clock--at which time curfew sounded for the
Yugoslavs; the Italians and their friends could stay out until any
hour--the premises were sacked: knives were used against the pictures,
furniture was taken by assault, and mirrors did not long resist the
fine elan of the attacking party. Old vases, other ornaments and books
were thrown into the harbour near the _Sirio_, the Italian destroyer
which was anchored ten yards from the Reading-Rooms. Of course there was
an inquiry; the result of it was that several Yugoslavs (and no others)
were imprisoned. The _Sirio's_ commander was a gentleman of some
activity; he sent a telegram to Rome and another one to Admiral Millo,
the Italian Governor of the occupied parts of Dalmatia, saying that the
people of the island longed for annexation. These telegrams he read
aloud before the islanders, with all his carabinieri in attendance....
The old-world capital of the island, which is a smaller place than
Starigrad, was occupied on the same day. The first serious encounter
took place on December 4, when the Italians, who were quartered on the
upper fl