The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-10-03
Peace Conference Devises Plan
for Settling the Problem Of
the Adriatic.
D'ANNUNz|0's F|UME RAID
Baltic States and Russian 6oishevlsts
Talking Peace-President Wilson
Explains Application Of League
Covenant to Shantunu and
Irish Questions.
BY EDWARD W. PIcKARD.

While D'Annunzlo held possession OF
Fiume after his spectacular raid on
that disputed city, the peace confer
ence In Paris got busy and announced
Its solution of the entire Adriatic
problem. 1t Is a compromise plan de-
signed to satisfy both Italy and Jugo-
Slavla, and II was cabled to America
to be submitted to President Wilson.
This compromise settlement provides
that Fiume shall be free state and
that It's harbor shall be free port;
that the Jugo-Slavs shall have all Of
the Dalmatian mainland except the
city of lara, which shall be free
port, and most of the Dalmatian
islands that Avlona and the surround
ing territory shall be under Italian
sovereignty, and that Italy shall re-
ceive a mandate for all Of Albania ex-
cept the Epirus, in the extreme south,
which shall go to Greece. Both Italy
and Jugo- Slavia make concessions I'M
der this plan. and 1t is believed that
1t will enable Fiume ultimately to be-
come part of Italy-a contamination
which the American peace delegation
was able to prevent during the treaty
negotiations.
D'Annunzlo's seizure OF Fiume was
decidedly embarrassing to the Ital-
ian government. To use force against
him was plainly out of the question,
for the sympathles of the nation were
with him. despite the fact that he and
his troops were technically mutineers
However. the government did take
steps looking toward IL blockade of FL
ume by land and sea In the expecta-
ton that the poet-soldier's army would
be soon starved into submission. and
In this measure the Jugo- Slavs COOP
Grated by cutting Off all supplies by
land. D'Annunzio had about 10000
| regulars and four battalions of vol
unteers under his command. and oc-
| cupied fortified line around the city.
| TO raze Fiume IL he could not hold
out. and that In this he was support
| ed by the citizens.
Naturally. the Germans were watch
ing this affair with great interest. and
the news that the allies had decided
It was to be handled by Italy alone
was looked on by them as significant.
for some OF them were contemplating
the possibility OF similar raid on
Danzig. They figured that II the ex-
pressed will of the allied peace con-
ference could be defied In one place,
II might be defied In another.
In Hungary the allies are gradually
bringing the situation around to their
own way. for the Roumanians, II is
announced, are withdrawing their
troops and have promised to restore
the materials they had confiscated.
Prime Minister Friedrich of Hungary,
II is expected will quit. aud coali,
ton cabinet will be recognized by the
allies.
The representatives Of the Baltic
states are holding. or about TO hold
conferences with the Russian holshe-
visits. with the prospect that peace he.
tween them will he arranged. wbeth.
er this Is with the tacit consent of the
allied nations is not clear. AT any
rate, the White Russians are desner.
ate'v fighting against such an outcome
fc' Y would mean their destruction
% the Reds The German troons In
the Baltic states. commanded nv Cen.
era' Won der Goltz. are increasing In
numbers and are very active. The
berhn government. In response to the
demand OF the peace conference rho,
they he withdrawn, said they were
nor under German control, hu, This
plea the conference refused to ol,o,
me Russian soviet government asserts
hat. despite Its recent victories ON N.