The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-27
Council of Premiers Completes
Session Without Settling
Adriatic Dis
pute.
ITALY's DEMONSTRATION
At Concert in Honor Of Visiting Dele
cations, Italians Arose and
Shouted Out Their
Protest.
[By Camille Cianfarra, United Press
Staff Correspondent.

! italians took advantage of concert
in honor of the visiting allied delega'
! tions tonight TO stage a demonstration
in favor of awarding Fiume to Italy.
| 4 All the allied leaders who had been
attending the sessions of the council
of premiers which closed at p. m.
were in the audience. When the Or
chestra struck UP the Italian national
anthem the Italians led by members
of the nobility who are wintering on
the Riviera, rose and turning toward
Prime Minister Lloyd George and
Premier Millerand shouted:
Long live Fiume and tNs Adr1atlc !!
We fought for them but with 100000
Italians dead you gave a whole en-
pire to Greece who murdered your SOL
diers in the streets of Athens.
IIoyd-George and Millerand only
smiled resignedy.
There was bitter feeling in Italian
circles over the failure OF the council
to settle the Adriatic dispute at the
session just closed. 1t was the more
intense in view of the concession
granted Greece in the Smyrna dis
trict of Turkish Asra Minor.
The council completed its reply to
President Wilson's Armenian note'
but announced the text would not be
made public until it had been rece'-
ed in Washington
It was learned semi-ofticlal the
council virtually decided to assign
italy a large economic zone or hllu-
ence" in Anatolia, bordering on the
Greek zone, which surrounds SMYRNA
The territory is rich in natural re-
sources.
italy also would reserve three
fo1rths of the Heraclea Eregl1, mid
way between Komieh and Adana coal
fields.f
The final communique, issued on the
councils last session this afternoon
said: ,as+
"The council approved the last
clauses of the treaty OF peace WIN
Turkey and also the note to Pres1oent
wilson, prepared by the British re-
garding Armenia.
~It- approved the note to Germany
and decided to invite German repre-
sentatives to attend council meet-
ing TO furnish exact information re.
earding execution of the treaty Oh
Versailles, also to prepare a.. no'e re-
earding the number of troops IN the
Ruhr and the progressive reductloh
thereof according to the protocol.
"After attending the question OF de.
struction of German naval mater1ai
and trial of criminals the council ad-
journed."
The various missions were to leave
San Reno Tuesday.
premier Nitti, of Italy, told news
naper men tonight he expected 10
meet Anton Trrunbitch, the Jugo-e'aV
within few days 10
renew discussions on the Adrla'lc
question scheduled to be settled q"
the next meeting of the premers ID
Paris.
WASHINGTON. April 2l-Ambas-
sador Robert Underwood Johnson >
renort of the supreme counclls pro
ceedinps at San Reno at whlch he
acted as unofficial American observer
vas to be laid before President Wh-
con at the cabinet meeting calied loi
this afternoon. z ,o,.
Johnson's report was received To-
d,v at the state department Secre'
tarv Colby planned to submit IL !"
~ nresident and the cabinet at three
fp. m. 49, ,,+,ro ~,
tho report was to be had from oficlal
sources it is believed it contains I'M
nortant confidential information on
~ ~ d.,;berations and conclusions or
the m allied premiers at the san RENO
n,sat;ng lust concluded and also the
allied arguments in favor OF tne
tinted States, accepting the mandate
for Armenia.
Proposal to Be Rejected.
WASHINGTON, April N.-ReJec-
t;on of the allied proposal that the
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