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LEFT ITALY 216 ITHACA ceding this, the Austrian armies had been utterly shattered by 5 Italian divi- sions, 3 British, 2 French, one Czecho- slovak, and the 332d American Infantry Regiment. Italy took a prominent part in the Peace Conference. Her representatives included Vittorio Orlando, Prime Minis- LEANING TOWER OF PISA ter, and Baron Sonnino, Foreign Min- ister. There were vexed problems re- lating to Italy to be solved. These were concerned chiefly with the ultimate dis- position of Fiume and Dalmatia, both of which were claimed by Italy and Jugo- slavia. Italy claimed that both Fiume and Trieste properly belonged to her. Trieste she received, but Fiume remained the mooted point until November, 1920, when by the so-called Treaty of Rapallo it was agreed between Italy and Jugo- slavia that Dalmatia, with certain re- strictions, should go to Jugo-Slavia, while Fiume should become an inde- pendent state. Gabriel D'Annunzio, who had taken possession of Fiume with a body of troops, early in 1919, refused to accept the terms of the treaty, and on December 9, declared Fiume an in- dependent state, and established a so- called "Italian Regency of Quarnero." Forces were sent to compel him to leave the city, and on Dec. 8, following ^several sharp engagements in which a consider- able number of men were killed on both sides, D'Annunzio ceased resistance and retired from Fiume. The economic conditions following the peace treaty gave rise to many disturb- ances. There were strikes instigated in many cases by radicals throughout the country, in June, 1920. These, however, gradually subsided and comparative economic peace had been reached at the end of the year. ITASCA LAKE (I-tasTca), in Beltrami and Cass counties, Minn.; first seen by William Morrison, a fur trader, in 1804; was explored by Henry Rowe School- craft in 1832. It is the first consider- able gathering of the furthermost streams which form the Mississippi, one of these being in volume entitled to be called the young Mississippi; the lake therefore is justly considered the source of the great river. The so-called "Glazier Lake" of some maps is merely an old bay of it partially settled up, and the claim of William Glazier to have discovered the "true source" has no foundation. ITCH, a popular name for scabies; a disease arising from the irritation pro- duced by the presence in the parts af- fected of the itch mite and its ova. The animal burrows chiefly between the fin- gers, on the front of the forearm, on the abdomen, and the inside of the thighs. The disease chiefly assails uncleanly people. It is very common among the natives of India and other Orientals. ITCH MITE, a small white parasitic spider, of the family Acaridse, producing the disease called itch. The mouth is furnished with bristles; so are the third and fourth pair of legs, while the first and second pair have suckers. ITHACA (ith'a-ka), now Thiaki, one of the Ionian Islands, on the W. of Greece, between the mainland and Cepha- Ionia, 17 miles long, and not above 4 broad. It is rugged and uneven, and divided into two nearly equal parts con- nected by a narrow isthmus. The in- habitants are industrious agriculturists and mariners, and build and fit out a