Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-27
PREMIERS' ANSWER
 10 ADRIATIC NOTE
 IS ON WAY 10 J. 5.
Presidents Last Protest and Text of Agreements
 Announced
WILSON REITERATED
 THREAT TO WITHDRAW
Reviewed Inconsistency Between De- ccmber, 1918 Pact and Pre- mier's Action and Declared
 U. $. Objections

Washington, Feb. PC. President Wilson in his reply to the British and French premiers on the Adriatic question adheres to his previous de-
 cision that unless the terms of set tlcment are returned to the pro- visions of the agreement of Decem- Der 9, "he must take under serious
 consideration" the withdrawal of l the treaty of Versailles and the French alliance from the senate.t The response of the premiers was ] dispatched from Lofdon today, but had not been rgeeived tonight in l Washington.
 With the exception of this note the | exchanges on the subject. includ- ! ing the December 9 agreement, and
 the subsequent agreement communi-
 cated to Jugo Slavia last month by
 the British and French premiers,
 were made public today by the state
 department.
 The joint memorandum of Decem-
 Der 9, subscribed to by France, Great
 Britain and the United States, and
 which it was supposed here settled
 the Adriatic question, provided in ! substance the following:
 Austria was to have frontiers
 which, while widely overstepping
 the recognized ethnical line between
 Italy and Jugo Slavia, would have
 given to Italy more than 100000
 Jugo Slavs and further extended
 eastward to give Italy territory in q the region of Albania, also including
 Jugo Slavs, as against 10000 Ital-
 ians which was to be placed under the league of nations.
 T First Agreement. ,l "Thpre was to he 4 free state If , Plume under control and for future determination by the league with { full autonomy for the city of Plume. "The city of Zara was to have 5. cnuplete -soxer xereigntsI-~s~ses--, thes'
 league and complete control of it's own affairs. The islands of the < Pelagosa group, Lissa and the small 1 islands west of 1t, Lusin and Unic,
 were to pass to Italy Italy was to F have a mandate over the independent state of Albania under the league. t Albania's frontiers north and east
 were to be those fixed by the Lon- , don conference of 1913. but the south E was left for negotiation: Greece was s to have certain territory, the lines f for some of which were to be left for negotiation. The city of Ba-
 lonia and such hinterland necessary U for economic development were i granted to Italy in full sovereignty" P The provisions were described in 2 the memorandum as affording to /. Italy full satisfaction of her his-
 toric national aspirations" uniting
 the Italian race and as giving her
 absolute strategic control of the Adriatic."
 The conferees declared they had
 carried "their concern for Italian ses : | curity to the point of neutralizinfya \ | the Dalmatian Isladns, and adjac4fSt5 z. waters from the northern bordefSaty ;. the Reguisa region to Fiume." Italy, e however, had asked for control of the - diplomatic relations of Zara, separn- ton of the city of Plume from the n free state of Plume; connecting of t the city of Plume to Islara by a cor n ridor and annexation to Italy of the t Island of Lagosta. This plan the
 conferees classed as "counter to ev-
 cry consideration of geography, ec-
 onomics and territorial conventi0ns.p
 Explaining their reasons from ar
 irving at the previous decision they
 declared: 's Economic consideration being
 equally excluded there remains noth- 1T ing but desire for further terri- n tory. The territories coveted are ]" admittedly inhabited by the Jug0- r. Slavs. They contain practically no lrI Italian clements" On that point the g, memorandum included g communis l. cation from President Wilson to Pre- IS mier Tittoni under date of November W 12, which, explaining the American B. view, declared "the broad principle le remains that it is neither just nor Il expedient to annex as the spoils of s. war territory inhabited by an alien F. race"
 IS Premiers' Settlement. le The new agreement between Great ,f Britain, France and Italy dated
 January IA, 1920, which President
 Wilson construed as having been ar
 rived at without participation of tho
 United States after the agreement of er December g, was supposed to have c: settled the question. It provides irl Id substance: sSs e, Plume as an independent free S. state, free in it's own diplomacy, Su- IT, sak to go to the Croat-Slovene statea ne with terms left to the league, Ths n- free state of the previous proposals ry was to disappear at the boundary en between Italy and sthe Serb Croat. In Slovene state was to be redrawn te IT. provide for the previously discussed s" proposal.
 on "The Wilson line" in the region o1 IT. Senocecchia was to be redrawn t<
 provide for the protection of Tries
 te.''
 This, the agreement declared, will leave in the Serb Croat- -Siovene statt ne purely a Jugo-Slav district. zars IT. was to be an independent state un IS, der the league. Valona was to bs ls- retained by Italy as provided in thu Io. treaty of London and Italy was \ ell take mandate over Albania whoa mt northern boundaries were to be rq tn adjusted and whose southern houn ne daries were to be re-arranged tl H. give Greece Jojoritxa and Argyxok ny astron. The island groups of Lu1S
 maine, Lisa, Pela and Gosa wexe '!
 assigned to Italy and tho rsmainde|