Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-19
ADRIATIC PROBLEM PUT UP TO U. s, BY ALLIED BODY Reply to Wilson's Note is Bid to Submit Solution
 Plan SUPREME COUNCIL,
 RE-OPENS SUBJECT Terms of Conciiatory Withheld Un- til Allies Consent
 to Publica-
 ton
(By The Associated Press. )


 By The Associated Press.)
 Washington, Feb. 18-Presidcnt Wilson's note to the allied supreme council regarding the Adriatic aues- tion, which caused something of a stir in this as well as in we'll allied countries, apparently has served to reopen the whole subject to nego- tiaton.
 The supreme councils reply was received today at the state depart- ment, but was withheld. London ad- vices said the note was conciliatory.
 The state department made no comment, but it was pretty we'll understood that the entente prem iers' communication had at least re- moved the Adriatic question from the status in which it was after the council communicated it's settlement { to Jugo-Slavia in the form of ar ultimatum without the United States being a party to the agreement.
 The Jugo-Slavs were given the op- tion of accepting the councils plaiSa or submitting to the carrying out otH the Adriatic provisions of the secresH treaty of London, negotiated beforsk the United States entered the wart2 In this connection, it was disclose. .X today that President Wilson, in hiKs note, again came out definitels against the application of the VerE1 salles treaty.
 Insists U. s. Have Voice
 It was also understood that tha$ president had taken the position that@1 regardless of the treaty of VersailleSf and the league of nations, the Unitell States should be party to the Ads' riatic settlement because of it's poSi- tion as -belligerent.
 While the premier's reply wan being received at the state depart-s ment from Amba ssador Davis, sug-s gestion came from Europe that tho premiers had invited the AS.cricanf tgovernment to- indicAte the practical steps that could b6 taken to exe6uk4s the original agreement, if it should$ be accepted by Italy and Jugc Slavia.
 Under the terms of that ssttle- ment, to which the United Statsx$ was party, Plume was to De erscta6l into free state under tle leaeul] of nations and in other respects th6s general principles of self determinA&s tion of the peoples affected wsf9 to be put into force. The seisur91 of Plume by D'Annunzio, it was sugS gested, had changed conditions, aMd the inability or indisposition of th Italian government to restore th status quo appeared to leave the 39 for the entente powers or United States. It was realized th none of these was willing to undex take such move and cdhsequentl other measures were considered. N
 U. s. to Offer SoIutiea.
 As comment upon this suggeett9 involved disclosure of some of tl features of the latest entente nol to say on the, subject. An alternative suggestion, con templating the naturalization 1T t1 entire Eastern Adriatic shores au waters, was said to be nothing u141 than { revampinR of proposa1 m early in the negotiations on subject and which failed of app4&& There is reason to believe, hoWeX that the general tendency o4 premiers' note is to invite tho un1 solution of the problem. At the state department
 said that the councils n0te KILT receive careful consideratfons 1 ling it evident that some tipe
 elanse before reply will bo M1 While the department hAs d61j not to make public tho presid6N communication and the council ply without the consent Of Y15 Great Britain and Italy. it wae le ed from authoritive sources t1 | that the American g0vernment lQ1 with favor on the pubHcatae1 the exchanges and had taken n to ascertain the wishes Of tke et governments in the matter. <
 Enxlish Demand HaA1ieitxS
 London, Feb. 10.Some of tk6 don newspapers disagree Nit4
 manner in which the nero between Great Britain and tn H1l States have been carried seyl advocate greater publicity
 Mall Gazette sugRests tkAt IT. open conduct is necesserv 6l correspondence "so that tho c1 sense of all the nationu eoIl9
 may assist in the victory of f1( and good temper"