The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-20
WILSON RESTATES HIS POSITION ON
 ADRIATTC ISSUES
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lO0ntlMucu Efbm GaSe OnCp the settlement to which the United States did not subscribe will stand.
 Suggestions coming from Europe that the course of the allies in pro- ceeding to a settlement of the Adriatic question without the participation Of the United, States might be attributed to desire for speed and considera- t1on of the necessary delay in cable exchanges between Washington and the entente capitals, were given only pass ing attention here.
 NO SUPREME COUNCIL
 It was recalled that when the Amer can peace delegates left Paris for home in December there was an agreement that questions remaining to be settled would he adjusted through the entente foreign offices and the American state department The allies continued to be represented by their premiers and Am bassador Wallace was present as an ob- server for the American government. but the understanding here was that the supreme council as such had ceased to exist.
 From the allied viewpoint it is said that the seizure of Plume by D'Annun- zio has created a changed situation in the Adriatic and that a speedy settle- ment which would eliminate him as factor without resort to force was desirable.
 It is understood that this view is not subscribed here. It is said that tenn porary impeachment should not weigh against the fundamental principle of self-determination. In the opinion here the problem resulting from D'Annun- zio's seizure of Plume will in time solve itself through the natural operation or economic forces.
 As has been anticipated in Washing ton the essential points of the allied reply to the Presidents note of the 10th have become known in some of the en- tente countries. State department offi- cials, however, continue to refrain from divulging it's contents in advance of an agreement for the publication of the exchanges which now is being sought.
 PRESIDENT STUDIES NOTE
 The allied note was delivered to Pres ident Wilson after it reached the state department yesterday and he spent the late afternoon and evening in care full study ofit.
 Immediately after breakfast this morning he summoned his confidential stenographer to his study and dictated his reply. The completed transcript was delivered to Acting Secretary Polk within two hours.
 Neither White House nor state de- partment officials would say how long the document was, but it is believed that it is shorter than his previous note, which contained something like 1000 words, about the same number as was in the allied communication. - During the day Constantine A. Chek- rezi official representative of Albania, issued statement attacking the pro- posed Adriatic settlement agreed upon by the allied premiers in which he said the fate of Albania was deeply in- volved."
 It is shocking,' he said. that Great Britain, France and Italy seem to have resolved to settle the Albanian problem in manner which can find it's only parallel in the partition of Poland at the end of the eighteenth century
 The awful fact is that in the memo randum of January 20 which was hand ed as an 'ultimatum' to Jugo- -Slavia, Albania is completely dismembered in favor of Italy, Serbia and Greece"