Signor d'Annunzio has not contributed to the settlement of the
Adriatic dispute between Italy and the Southern. Slays by seizing the islands of Chars°, Arbe and Veglia on the anniver- sary of his armed occupation of Flume. Of these islands in the Bay of Quarnero, Cherso alone was assigned to Italy by the Treaty of London, while the other two, with Fiume Itself, were left to the Southern Slave. President Wilson proposed that Italy should abandon Cherso as well We can well imderstand the Italian Government's reluctance to call.Signor d'Armunzio te account for his ".direct action," with which patriotic Italians sympathize all the more because the Southern Slays have treated Italians badly 'in Dalmatia. Yet it is time that -the Governments at Rome and Belgrade came to a final agreement about the frontier in the Adriatic coast-lands, for these un• authorized incidents are likely to breed a,.serious quarrel.
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