Italian Occupation Of Fiume (1919)

Fiume, Yugoslavia



Various shots of Fiume on the Italian/Yugoslav border during the Italian occupation on the 19th September 1919 - Italian troops manning road block. High angle shot of soldiers marching through dense crowds in main street. CU. Italian troops marching through town, cut-in of crowd. GV. Troops searching the belongings of a peasant. High angle of troops marching through crowd. LS Well defended road block.



N.B. The town on the Adriatic, once Austrian, the held by the League of Nations was captured by Italian poet-aviator Gabriele d'Annunzio and his followers in September.
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