. Travels and politics in the Near East. ort of Fiume. It is for thisreason that the Hungarians have steadily opposed Baronvon Kallays project of uniting Spalato by railway viaArzano with the Bosnian branch line, whose presentterminus is Bugojno, and thus making it the dcbouchc ofthe occupied territory. Again and again this plan hasbeen brought forward, but Baron von Kallay has thisyear been forced to admit in a public speech that it is notat present feasible. That there are considerable naturaldifficulties in the way of such a line is true : but, aseverjwhere in Dalmatia, the political obstac
. Travels and politics in the Near East. ort of Fiume. It is for thisreason that the Hungarians have steadily opposed Baronvon Kallays project of uniting Spalato by railway viaArzano with the Bosnian branch line, whose presentterminus is Bugojno, and thus making it the dcbouchc ofthe occupied territory. Again and again this plan hasbeen brought forward, but Baron von Kallay has thisyear been forced to admit in a public speech that it is notat present feasible. That there are considerable naturaldifficulties in the way of such a line is true : but, aseverjwhere in Dalmatia, the political obstacles are moreserious than those imposed by nature. Once let this linebe made, in place of the diligence route over Livno,which now alone connects Spalato with the Hiiitcvlaud,and the town will blossom out into considerable com-mercial importance. Smartly dressed men and women,fine big cafes and a theatre, in the auditorium of whichwe took our dinner according to a practice not un-common in this part of the world, all attest the modern 24. Travels and Politics development of Spalato ; and, having for centuriesafforded material to plodding antiquaries, it seems likelyto become, on a smaller scale, a Dalmatian Trieste. Winding about from the islands to the mainland andfrom the mainland to the islands, we pass Brazza, famousfor its wine, and Almissas ruined castle, once the boundaryline betw^een the two Slav tribes of Croats and Serbs inthe early days of Dalmatian history, and later the abodeof the most dreaded pirates of the whole Illyrian among the mountains behind Almissa there existed,till the early years of the present century, the quaintHighland Republic of Poljica, which has been styled the Illyrian San Marino. But, unlike the small AppennineCommonwealth,^ which still lingers on within the boun-daries of United Italy, Poljica has disappeared as a separateState from the map. The great French Emperor, whobade spare San Marino, that it might remain apattern of a Repub
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