Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01
PRESIDENT WILSON
TELLS POSITION ON
ADR|AT|C QUESTION
Declares Italy Not Entitled to
Fiume; Latins Defiant.
ROME CALLS CHIEFS HOME
Premier Orlando Says: I'VE Will
Hold What We Have"-U. S. Pres
ident Declares IA Points Are
Basis of Peace.

Paris, April 24.-The Italian vice adj
miral, Thaon hi Revel, former chief
of staff, has left Paris for Rome. Gen.
Diaz, commander in chief
of the Italian armies. it is announced,
also is leaving.
81 have not yet decided whether to
reply to President Wilson with a state
lnent or with an act" was Premier Or
lAndo's remark when the Wilson state
Iment was translated to him.
The italian peace headquarters is
practically unanimous in the belief
that the presidents statement means
that Italy must withdraw from the
peace conference.
"We have 10 peace terms to make
with Germany, except a trifing bill
for reparations," an Italian diplomat
said. ave can arrange that any time
Ior let it go. We can't very well make
peace with Austria, as the Austro-
Hungarian empire doesn't exist. We
can, however, return to Rome and keep
what we have, which is all we de-
mand."
Presidents Statement.
In a statement issued by President
Wilson explaining his position on the
Adriatic question he declares that
Fiume cannot become a part of Italy.
The text Of the statement follows:
I'm view of the capital Importance
of the questions affected, and in or
der to throw all possible light upon
what is involved in their settlement.
l hope that the following statement
will contribute to the final formation
of opinion and to a satisfactory solu-
ton.
when Italy entered the war she en-
tered upon the basis of a definite pri-
waite understanding with Great Britain
and France, now known Is the pact of
London. Since that time the whole
face of circumstances has been al
tered. Many other powers, great and
small, have entered the struggle with
no knowledge of that private under
standing.
"The Austro-Hungarian empire, then
the enemy of Europe, and at whose
expense the pact of London was to
be kept in the event of victory, has
gone to pieces and no longer exists.
Not only that, but the several parts Of
that empire, it is agreed now by Italy
and all her associates, are to be erect
ed into independent states and asso-
ciated in a league Of nations, not with
those who were recently u enemies,
but with Italy herself and the powers
that stood with Italy in the great war
for liberty.
"We are to establish their liberty
as well as our own. They are to be
among the smaller states whose inter-
Iests are henceforth to be safeguarded
tas scrupulously as the interests of
the most powerful states.
How War Ended.
'The war was ended, moreover, by
proposing to Germany an armistice
and peace which should be founded
on certain clearly defined principles
which set up a new order of right and
Justice. Upon those principles the
peace with Germany has been con
iceived, not only, but formulated. Upon
those principles it will be effected.
1--WE cannot ask the great body of
powers to propose and effect peace
with Austria and establish a new basis
of independence and right In the states
which originally constituted the Aus
tro-Hungarian empire and in the states
of the Balkan group on principles Of
another kind. We must apply the SANE
principles to the settlement of Europe
in those quarters that we have applied
in the peace with Germany.
'It was upon the explicit avowal Of
those principles that the initiative fol
peace was taken. 1t is upon them tina
the whole structure of peace must rest
IF those principles are to be ad
hered to Fiume must serve as the out
let of the commerce, not of Italy, be
of the land to the north and northeas
of that port; Hungary, Bohemia, Rou
mania and the states Of the new Jugo
.Slav group. To assign Fiume to Ital.
would be to create the feeling that W,
have deliberately put the port upol
which all those countries chiefly de
pend for their access to the Mediter
ranean In the hands Of q power o
which 1t did not form an integral par
and whose sovereignty, IL set up there
must inevitably seem foreign, not dc
nestle or identified with the CONNER
lcial and industrial life, Of the region
which the port must serve. 1t is TO
that reason, no doubt, that Fiume wa
not included in the pact Of Londor
but there definitely assigned to tn
CroGtians.
aAnd the reason why the line Of tn
pact OF London swept about many Q
the islands on the eastern coast of til
Adriatic and around the portion Of tn
Dnlmatian coast which lies most ope
to the sea was not only that here an
there on those Islands, and here an
there on that coast, there are bodie
of people Of Italian blood and come
Zion. but also. md no doubt chiefly. b