Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-22
SUPREME COUNCIL
FINALLY D|SbANDS
Adriatic Question Is Left Unset.
tled-Nitti Insists Jugo.Slavs
Must Accept Italy's Terms or
Offer Will Be Withdrawn
SITUATION IS TENSE
JugO-Slnvs willing to Accept Interna-
tionalizntiOn for F'iume md Earn
Refuse to Make Alteration Of Line
Drawn by President Wilson

Paris, Jan. 90 tBy the Associated Press).
With the disbanding tonight of the
Supreme Council without settlement
of the Adriatic question, Signor Nitti, the
Italian premier declared that he stood
by his ultimatum that If the Jugo-Slavs
did not accept Italy's terms tonight he
would withdraw his compromise offer and
| that ITALY will demand that France and
Great Britain execute purely and simply
the treaty of London of April, 1915"
| Prior to the breaking up the council
the Jugo-Slav reply to Itaiy's demands
had been presented. Sgnor Nitti declared
that the terms were unacceptable The
note said that it constituted 1.-The SUI
preme effort" of Jugo-Slavs TO bring
about an agreement with Italy. This fact
taken in connection with Premier Nittrs
statement. apparently leaves the situa-
ton a tense one.
The Jugo-Slavs accept nternationaliza-
| ton under the League of Nations for
Fiume and cara. concede to Italy the
| Islands of Lussin and Pelagoza and agree
I to the standardization of the Adriatc
islands with the condition that the Island
of LISA remain Jugo-Slav.
The right Of the Italians in Dalmatla
to choose Italian nationality without
leaving Jugo-Slavia is recognized by the
Jugo-Slav who also agree that Italian
national rights in Dalmatian industries
shall be guaranteed by an international
convention. They refuse to make any
alteration of the line drawn by President
Wilson
| Before the council was finally adjourn
ed. David Lloyd George asked that the
following statement be entered upon the
minutes of the council:
/ Conscious of the inestmable services
which Monsieur Georges Clemenceau
president during more than a year of the
peace conference, has rendered the cause
of PEACE. and grateful to him. az we are
for the dignity, impartiality and wisdom
with which he has conducted our DELHI
eratons. we. his colleagues desire to ex-
press to him our unalterabe esteem, as
we'll as our hope that in the calm of his
retirement he may live long enough to
see his Incompatible work bear fruit for
the glory of France and the renewal of
the prosperity of the world
| Hugh c. Wallace, the American ambas-
sador, who followed Mr.. Lloyd George.
said:
Mr. President: 1t is deep regret
for me not to have been able to be pres
ent longer in these deliberations and to
profit by your great wisdom and your
| Incompatible good temper. I have learn
ed to know you. and that is to say to
love you, and President Wilson has al
ready told me how deeply attached he
was to you. 7 want to express to you the
sentiment we feel for you and to wish
you long and happy life
NJ. Clemenceau in thanking the coun-
Gil for it's expressions of esteem. said:
"If Great Britain, the United States,
Italy and Japan remain united, there
< exceeds
all those guarantees which can be put
on paper If one day these nations are
separated. ] dare not think of the mis-
fortunes which may result"
| Signor Ntti, the Italian premier, left
this evening for Rome, and David Lloyd
George, the British prime minister, Will
depart for England Tomorrow morning.
NJ. Clemenceau indicated this evening that
he would turn over the affairs OF the coun-
Gil tomorrow.
The council this afternoon held fur
Their discussion on Great Britain's an
nouncement Of her inability to send her
quota of troops into the plebscte areas.
The discussion resulted in the British
offering to send naval attachments to
Mcneil and Dan2ig.
During the session Hugh G. Wallace,
the American ambassador. Premier Lloyd
George, Premier Nitti and Baron Matsui.
the Japanese ambassador, extoled NJ.
| Clemenceau in brief formal farewell adj
dresses.
No definite arrangements were made
by the council before disbandinG for turn
ing over the Turkish, Adriatic and other
problems to other hands. but it was indi-
Gated that the proposed conference of
ambassadors would be empowered shortly
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