The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-06-06
The Secret Treaty
How 1t Was Made
Text D%iSClOSeS Why Treaty Of Lon
don Was Such A Stumbling Block
To The League OF Nations Shows
Why Italy Is Making Fuss Now

What is the Secret Treaty of Lon
don about? There are thousands Of
newspaper readers asking that ques
ton in American territory today.
Through the courtesy of the Associa-
ted Press, the Maui News is enabled
to print in this issue the text of the
Treaty of London, and the history Of
its inception.
The text of the secret treaty, con
cluded at London on April 26, 1915,
Icy which Great Britain, France and
Russia accepted the terms demanded
by Italy as the price of its parttcipa-
ton in the war, was first published
by the Soviet Government of Russia
at the end of November, 1917. On
May "a, 1915, Italy declared war
against Austria-Hungary On June
20, 1918, Mr.. Balfour, speaking in the
House Of Commons in opposition to a
motion which called for a revision of
secret treaties with the Allied Govern
mcnts, on the ground that lin their
present form they are inconsistent
with the objects for which this coun-
try entered the war, and are therefore
a barrier to a democratic peace" de
clared that ito these treaties we
stand. The national honor is bound
up with them. " Il s. We mean to
keep to the full to the bargain we
have made"
The Italian Ambassador in London,
Marchese Imperiali, on instructions
from his Government, has the honor
to communicate to the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward
Grey, to the French Ambassador,
NJ. Cambon, and to the Russian Am
~bassador, Count Benckendorff, the
following memorandum:
l.. The Great Powers of France,
Great Britain, Russia, and Italy shall,
without delay, draw up a military
convention, by which are to be deter
mined the minimum of military forces
which Russia will be bound to place
against Austria-Hungary, in the event
Of the latter throwing all her forces
against Italy. This military conven-
ton will also regulate the problems
relating to a possible armistice, in so
far as these do not by their very
nature fall within the competence of
the Supreme Command.
II. Italy on her part undertakes to
conduct the war with all means at her
disposal, in agreement with France,
Great Britain, and Russia, and against
the states which are at war with
them.
Ill. The naval forces of France
and Great Britain will lend Italy
their active cooperation until such
time as the Austrian fleet shall be
destroyed, or till the conclusions of
peace. France, Great Britain, and
Italy shall in this connection conclude
without delay a naval convention.
". By the future treaty of peace
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whole of Southern Tyrol, as far as
its natural and geographical frontier,
the Bremen; the city of Trieste and
its surroundings; the county of
Gorilla and Gradisca; the whole of
Istria as far as the Quarnero, ihclud-
ing Volosca and the Istrian Islands,
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islands of Plavnik, Unia, Canidoli,
Paluzzuola, S. Pietro Nerovio, Ash
nello, and Grutca, with their neigh
boring islets.
Note In carrying out what is
said in Article " the frontier line
shall be drawn along the following
points: from the summit of Umbrile
northwards to the Stelvio, then along
the watershed of the Rhaetian Alps
as far as the sources of the rivers
Adige and Eisach, then across the
Mounts Reschem and Bremen and the
Etz and Ziller peaks. The frontier
then turns southwards, touching
Mount Toblach, in order to reach the
present frontier of CaTniola, which is
near the Alps. Along this frontier
the line will reach Mount Jarvis and
will follow the watershed of the Ju,
liam Alps beyond the crests of Predil,
Mangart, and Tricorno, and the
passes Of PodberdO, Podlansko, and
Idria. From here the line will run in
a southeast direction towards the
Schneeberg, in such a way as not to
include the basin of the Save and its
tributaries in Italian territory. From
the ~Schneeberg the frontier will
descend towards the sea coast, in
Guiding Castua, Matuglia, and Volosca
as Italian districts.
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