Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-22
do NOT EXPECT
/. ITALY To QUIT
PEACE COUNCIL
Expect That Difficulties Can Be
Smoothed Over and Peace
Plan Adopted
BY Associated Press.

~ Associated Press.
PARIS. March 22.-Hope was
expressed In peace confer
encc circles that by the
first of next week the plan would be
presented which would surmount the
difficulty in the way of completion of
the peace-making work of the con-
ference raised by the threat of Italy
to withhold approval of any peace
treaty not definitely settling the Ital-
ian-Jugo Slav controversy. President
Wilson has the whole question before
him and il is from him that the plan
upon which hope of the satisfactory
settlement is based is looked for.
The action of the Italian delega-
ton, taken as q unit, amounting Vir-
tually to an ultimatum directed TO
the supreme council, gave great con-
Germ to other delegations today. Al
though the supreme council was busy
with a consideration of the western
Polish boundary the premiers, them
selves, with Col. Il. M. House, were
engaged in trying to find some solu-
ton to the very difficult problem pre-
sented by the action of the Italians.
Delegates Apprehcnsive.
1t has been known for some time
that the Italian delegates were appre-
hensive that any program adopted by
plated the relegation of the ItalyJugo
Slav controversy to the League of Ma
tions when 1t is formed or even when
its consideration by the supreme
council after the completion OF the
peace treaty with Germany would ser
ioUsly jeopardize Italian claims. the
fear has been expressed by some OF
the Italian delegates that Immediately
after the conclusion of the Germany
DraCidaTnt Wilson Premier
Lloyd George and perhaps other lead
ing figures in the council would leave
Paris and the remaining members OF
the council would not have full power
to deal with Italian demands. The
state OF mind of the italian public is
declared to be such that the failure OF
the Italian delegation to return from
Paris speedily with title to Fiume ana
the Dalmation Costal islands might
easily have raised internal results.
according to statements by some OF
the delegations.
Thus for many weeks past they
have simply been flooding other dele
cations and the offices of foreign cor
respondents with literature 20 support
Italian claims. This melted the Ser
bian delegation in Paris to very sharp
responses, which were given TO the
press and which pronounced italian
contentious as DtlnE dpSOiutt VIVA
tions of President Wilson's fourteen
points, because they deny access to the
seas to the Jugo-Slav population in
the interior.
The Italian claim, of course, is that,
racially, historically and economically,
the port of Fiume and the immediate
vicinity is Italian. They claim that
tho eastern Adriatic coast must also
go to Italy as a military measure TO
insure protection to exposed Italian
cities on the western shore of the
Adriatic.
The supreme council is called upon
indirectly, in deciding this issue, TO
pass upon the validity of secret trea-
ties negotiated in London in 1915,
some of which at least are held to be
at variance with Mr.. Wilson's four
teen points. The council is also en-
barrassed by the possible effect OF any
decision II may make in the Ftume
case upon Greek and French claims
to the Smyrna coast. Polish claims to
Lemberg, and Polish claims to Dan
zig.
The whole question will go before
President Wilson for consideration
and solution.
Rear Admiral Philip Andrews, who
has been in command of the American
naval base at Cardiff. Wales, is going
to the Adriatic to take command Of
American forces there. relieving Rear
Admiral p. Niblack.