Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
CRISIS To BE.
SOONI
EWIN PARIS
Feeling Grows More Hope
ful-Orlando to Con
suit Parliament.

Paris. April 25.-A distinct
ly more hopeful and less ir-
recOncilable feeling prevailed
AT Italian headquarters today.
No longer was there talk OF a
! breach with the peace confer
ence. but instead il was said:
"All may be settled within a
fortnight. Premier Orlando
has gone 10 Rome 10 consult
parliament Therefore we shall
see."
Premier Orlando OF italy leh
Paris for Rome at $50 last nigh
accompanied by Salvador Barzillai
/ General Diaz and two other mem.
bers of the Italian mission. HI
was given an ovation at the station
by a crowd.
Solution Is Seen.
Peace conference circles we're in.
clined to believe today that an ami.
cable solution of the Italian Incl,
dent was in the making.
For one thing Italy has shown
her desire to maintain good rela.
tions with the allies by the fact
Paris will continue to collaborats
in the work of the inter-allied com.
mission not pertaining to the aCtua
work of the peace conference.
II is the purpose of Premier Or
lando TO call the Italian parliament
together at an earlier date thar
May 6, as previously fixed, so thai
he may be back in Paris for the
opening of the negotiations at Yer.
sailles, which will not begin until
the first or second of May
PTemiers and Wilson Meet.
Premiers Clemenceau and Lloyd
George and President Wilson. il is
announced will meet in conference
at 4 O'Clock this afternoon The
topics to be discussed at the meet
ing are not known
The remaining members OF the
council of four. now that Premier
Orlando has left France, did not
hold a meeting during the fore
noon
The chief interest attached 10 the
afternoon session is whether For
eign Minister Sonnino of Italy will
attend and continue the discussion
of the Italian question as he in
tends to leave for Rome tonight
However, it is not considered likely
that he will attend
All Desire understanding.
After the meeting OF the council
of four yesterday afternoon pre-
vious to the departure of Premier
Orlando the following official state
ment was issued
Before his departure for Rome,
Signor Orlando, accompanied by
Baron Sonnino. had another meet
ing with President Wilson, Pre-
mier Lloyd George and Premier
Clemenceau. Throughout the dis
cussion all present displayed tho
strongest desire to reach a salts
factory solution of the problems
under consideration, The heads OF
the American, British and French
expressed to Signor
Orlando the hope that the Italian
parliament would also assent in
at such a settlement"
No Rupture OF Relations.
The newspapers here are unani-
nous in the opinion that the de-
paTture Of Premier Orlando from
Paris does not constitute a rupture
in relations. 1T is not adieu," says
the Petit Journal. but au revolt"
The Petit Parisien is particular
ly optimistic saying that the criti-
cal tension exists no longer and
there are several forms of compro-
mise possible.
A part of the French press mani
tests some imDafiaure that new
should arise at the
moment when the German plenipo-
tentiaries are about to arrive.
The Echo d Paris fears that "as
a sequel OF the methods employed,
all alliances may totteT."