Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fiume is composed of the Port of Fiume, Sussak, a suburb, and the Port of Barros, contained in an area of eight square miles. Fiume was created an Independent State...
...Navy Department received a telegram from Rear Admiral Sumner E. W. Kittelle, Commander of the Destroyer Squadron of the Battle Fleet: "Seven vessels landed on Pedernales Point [75 miles north of Santa Barbara]. Fuller, badly on rocks, listed 20 degrees starboard; Woodbury, same, listed 40 degrees port; Chauncey, high up inside rocks, and upright; Young, on beam end, three-quarters submerged; Delphy, on beam end, three-quarters submerged and broken in half: S. P. Lee, on beach under cliffs, listed 20 degrees port; Nicholas, broadside on beach, listed 20 degrees starboard...
Against Colonel Tarafa's apparent disinterestedness it can be pointed out that he is President of the Cuba Northern Railroad, and expected to become President of the consolidated railroads. Until comparatively recently Matanzas was the greatest sugar port in the world, but it now has been succeeded by a port in Camaguey, unknown only a few years ago ? Puerta Tarafa, a private port, developed as an outlet for Tarafa's railway. Not long ago it was made a national or public port; consequently it will benefit by the new bill...
...Mussolini Government informed the YugoSlavian delegation in Rome that unless they came to terms on the problems connected! with the Port of Fiume,* Italy would1 reserve her " full liberty of action." The Treaty of London (1915) promised Italy a large area of continental Dalmatia. After the War there arose a conflict of interest between Yugo-Slavia and Italy. Yugo-Slavia wanted the Dalmatian coast and Italy was left in a quandary as to whether she would hold out for her rights under the Treaty of London or accept the Port of Fiume, which had not been promised...
...Plume was a port of the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and is situated on the Istrian Peninsula (not in Dalmatia) on the Adriatic Sea. The area is eight English square miles and the population is 49,806. SignOr Attilio Depoli is the head of the Provisional Government...