The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-01-31
.nFrERENCES
GROWING I! ] !! OUT
OF UNKNOWN s..
ALLIED ! TREATY
Italy snd Jugo.Slays Menace
ss Esar1nopious agreement
on Peace Settlement @
AGREEMENTS HAD BEEN
REACHED LONG AGO
Italy Wants Dalmatia, While
slay. Object; Pacts Must !.
BE Abrogated -. - ! y
AGREEMENTS HAD BEEN
REACHED LONG AGO
By Amos Pinchot.

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We shington. Jan, The con
troversey between Italy and the
JuEo-slavs growing out of the secret
treaties of the allies In which the
United States has np<s part, isone5of {
the most serious menaces to harmon
+ions agreement: on q peace ..sN settle q q:
i mort: ss isls IL ;;s5< n,
+ 1'here.seerns. u he no way for Pres
+tSent Wilson to- oSclsarstiIe peace table
eof this eirfba rrs sEssingg COM icatlon
without first forcin 8 alestructle q q
the secret treat tiess THIS can be e$done
only If the peoples 5of the. United
( States aud. tbeSanied countries sHnder-
-Htand his position and a re willing, 70
hack him in this al fficult, but seem
.ingsy necessar Sund nderta king. II ss : I.
Cause III Tronbles - h.
TIE trouble between the sItafans
:: Rnd their ;Rey stern sieighhars
srises from the London Pact Of f91 s;
i Arfsc,e Nv says that Italy shall have
!. Istria. and Article ~ gives her Daiss
maria and sAd1aceht Islands, The
=.Ingo-Salvs contend that Italy has
suefther political nor ethnological
Slai,ns to these sterrit ories, II and, q
:crasfs OF extreme delicacy had been
pSecfpitatad that a1ready has " arr
sIar1fed some poeaspgsssof- intery yentien
4 " tfS offer saf1ie es According to the
census oT 1910. the population Of
aDairnatia was 6 1866. O these, It
.fs estimate ed that $4,000 are Italians.
The Slav dhhabitantE number ap-
proaimatsly 4SO 900 and only about
80, ,006 az these speak Italian. :.-
Italv Wants Dalmatia:
The principal reason why Italy
wants Dalmatia is found in the for
nation Or sfhea Iittoral. On>the& TIA.
Han side,; hesAdriatic Is shallow and
? sandy, II is a nice place for children
to; bathe. but.sis. ne, place for ship
binE. The Dalmatia coast, on the
other hand, is broken by bays and
-guifs, and fringed With islands; and
:. almost every Mi has, "a, eommodi
harbnr III, 1mieerseshsuI vessels or a
; Swelishelte tefed. .Dase for Warships.
~. France and Great britain are, OBJ
ttgated to back. up. Italy Dalmatia
claims. ii, spite ot the new. Jugo-Slav
nation. which, .pTssuma b Iy. suntil re-
( Gently, has also been kepti ignor-
ance Of the secret treaties. They
pledged themRelyes to do SO in the
treaty of1a15, and II they don't Italy
can seek revenge by opposing French
and British claims; in other districts.
!: Eor instance, another secret memo
ranIuni rovideps for. the partition
! Ing Of Arabia between France and
I Great BritaaAsI, at Versailles,
France and Great Britain should
balk at the:treaty. of 1915, 1taly's
Representatives. may well be expected
to protest agsfnst the fulfillment Of
the arrangesne emit regardfng Arabia,
and other seeret nderstandings
which are equally important TO;
them. sZ4,s s7.s . = +. NJ i. ,,1s n.
What Britain Expects. :se
One Of the claims which Great Bri-
tain Is expAeted to make under the
shadow OF the secret agreements IS
the exclusion =af Germany from
trade with China. Another will be
an extended Eknhere of influence in
Observation-Disclosures the worlds
richest oil regions. France and Italy
'sare expected, to:;demand an equal
participation with Great Britain in
the division Of European Turkey.
All OF these agreements are mutual.
Fheye stand or fall on the common
determination : of Y the powers that
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