Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-01
Declares Italy Not Entitled to
Fiume; Latins Defiant.
ROME CALLS CHIEFS HOME
Premier Orlando Says: 1--WE Will
Hold What We Have"-U. S. Pres
ident Declares Ia Points Are
Basis of Peace.

)f the Italian armies. 1t is announced,
also is leaving.
II have not yet decided whether to
reply to President Wilson with state
ment or with an act" was Premier Or
ando's remark when the Wilson state
ment was translated to him.
The Italian peace headquarters is
unanimous in the belief /
that the presidents statement means |
that Italy must withdraw from the /,
peace conference
I'VE have no peace terms to make
with Germany, except trifiing bill
for reparations," an Italian diplomat
said. "We can arrange that any time
or let 1t go. We can't very well make
peace with Austria, as the Austro-
Hungarian empire doesn't exist. We
can, however, return to Rome and keep
what we have, which is all we de-
mand."
Presidents Statement.
In statement issued by President
Wilson explaining his position on the
Adriatic question he declares that
Fiume cannot become part of Italy.
The text of the statement follows:
SIN view of the capital Importance
of the questions affected. and in or
der to throw all possible light upon
what is involved in their settlement.
hope that the following statement
will contribute to the final formation
of opinion and to satisfactory solu-
ton.
when Italy entered the war she en-
tered upon the basis of !, definite pri-
vate understanding with Great Britain
and France. noa- known as the pact of
London. Since that time the whole
face of circumstances has been al
tered. Many other powers, great and
small. have entered the struggle with
no knowledge of that private under
standing.
1.-THE Austro- Hungarian empire, then
the enemy of Europe, and at whose
expense the pact of London was to
be kept in the event of victory, has
gone to pieces and no longer exists.
4NOl OlIS tAtil, puI lAlC lSoSN "a Oh pa 10 VI
that empire, it is agreed now by Italy
and all her associates, are to be erect
ed into independent states and asso-
ciated in league Of nations, not with
| those who were recently our enemies.
but with Italy herself and the powers
that stood with Italy in the great war
for liberty.
Il & : . Al.
"We are to establish their liberty
us we'll as our own. They are to be
among the smaller states whose inter
ests are henceforth to be safeguarded
1 as scrupulously as the interests OF
the most powerful states.
How War Ended.
/ 'The war was ended, moreover. by
proposing to Germany an armistice
and peace which should be founded
on certain clearly defined principles
which set up new order Of right ant
Justice Upon those principles thu
peace with Germany has been con
ceived, not only, but formulated. Upol
those principles it will be effected.
1--WE cannot ask the great body o
powers to propose and effect peac
with Austria and establish new basi
of independence and right in the state
which originally constituted the Aus
tro- Hungarian empire and in the state
| of the Balkan group on principles Q
another kind. We must apply the sam
principles to the settlement of Europ
in those quarters that we have apple
in the peace with Germany.
1T was upon the explicit avowal Q
those principles that the initiative 70
peace was taken. 1t is upon them tina
the whole structure of peace must res
.'If those principles are to- be az
hered to Fiume must serve as the on
let of the commerce, not of Italy, bl
of the land to the north and nOrtheas
of that port; Hungary, Bohemia, Rol
mania and the states of the new Jug
: Slav group. To assign Fiume to Ital
would be to create the feeling that W
) have deliberately put the port upe
which all those countries chiefly d
,, pend for their access to the Medite
: ranean in the hands of power
) which it did not form an integral pa
and whose sovereignty, if set up ther
must inevitably seem foreign, not d
D nestle or identified with the CONNIE
, cial and Industrial life, Of the regiol
e which the port must serve. 1t is 4
.. that reason no doubt, that Fiume w
n not included yin the pact Of Londo
h but there definitely assigned to t
: Croatians. a.
"And the reaSpn why the line of I
pact of London $wept about many
the islands on the eastern coast OF Z
Adriatic and arc5dnd the portion of t
Dalmatian coast which lies most OPP
: to the seavwas not only that here a
thcrd on those islands, and here a.
the on that coast, there are boal
i of Die of Italian blood and come
ii it also, and no doubt chiefly