Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-28
jUCOSLAVS REFUSE
|TALYS PROPOSAL
|NREP[Y TOALL|ES
Suggest Compromise Along
Line of President VIII
sons Proposal.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 2s.-The Jugosiav
reply to the allied ultimatum regard
ing the Adriatic question. received in
Paris this afternoon. amounts to a
offered by the Italians.
The reply, it is believed, suggests a
new basis of compromise along the
lines of President Wilson's proposal.
Thu Jugoslav communication will be
pres Anted to the council of ambaSSa-
doris as soon as it is deciphered.
The note. while amounting to a re-
fusaf of the alternative contained in
the allied ultimatum, is couched in a
conciliatory tone and opens the way for
further discussion of the question.
Jugoslavia points out that she is still
quite ready to accept solution of the
problem along the lines of President
Wilson's 1919 proposals, adding that
cial cognizance of the treaty of Lon
don.
The reply adds that the pact of
London is secret document. the text
or which was never officially COM
municated to the Jugoslav govern
ment. and therefore it cannot consider
a solution which is based on a treaty
it has never seen nor had an oppor-
tunity of examining and discussing.
The Jugoslav reply reached Paris at
i o'clock this afternoon, but owing to
the length of the document it will
take five to six hours to decipher The
note will then be taken TO the Quai
d'Orsay. where it will be delivered to
Premier Millerand's cabinet chief, the
premier being absent in Belgium.
decorating Belgian cities.
fne allied ultimatum to Jugo-
slavia demanded that the govern
ment at Belgrade decide without
delay upon what it wanted to do
and to give a categorical answer
Of Eyes" or mo" to the compromise
offered by the Italians for solution
of the Adriatic question. A Paris
dispatch Monday said that one of
the first acts of the council of am
bassadors appointed to carry on
the unfinished routing work of the
supreme council of the peace con.
ference was to give the Jugoslav
representatives four days addi-
tional time in which to reply to
the allied ultimatum.
A dispatch from Bern, under
Tuesdays date. quoted Belgrade ad-
vices as stating that the Jugoslav
government had decided to accept the
allied ultimatum. This decision, the
advices from the Jugoslav capital
said, was reached by a small ma
jority only after long discussion
Members of the Jugoslav delegation
in Paris. however. declared the Bel
grade adviccs without foundation in
fact
.SAs Deaant Opinion ExDressedl t-=as
ROME. January 27.-Friendly rela-
tions with Jugeslavfa. are desirable
but they do not go so far-as to calf Tor
a sacrifice Of national interests in the
Adriatic, says the Giornale D'Italia
Italian evacuation of the Adriatic
coast and the re-establishment there
of Slav forces in a strategic position
would be dangerous. for Italy, the
newspaper says.
Italy defeated the formidable mill
tary empire of Austria and freed her
oppressed sons" the article continues.
If the Jugoslavs do not understand
it is to their interest to live in accord
with Italy, preferring to challenge
us, they are blind fools and will re-
pent their obstinacy. In no case will
victorious Italy kneel before the
Croatians and Slovenes. who until
Yesterday were faithful servants of the
Hapsburgs."