Evening star., 1920-02-19
REPLY
TO PREM|ERS WILL
.BEcABLED TONIGHT
lie Drafts Second Note on
.Adriatic Situation. IN
Two Hours.
COMMUNICATIONS TEXT
LIKELY TO BE PUBLISHED
Allied Answer to First Note Said
to Be in Conciliatory
Tone,

President Wilson today completed
his reply to the allied supreme coun-
ellis note on the Adriatic question
and sent it to Acting Secretary Polk.
who is putting it in form for trans
initial to the council. 1t is expected
to be on the cables before night.
There was no indication as to the
notes contents or its length. The
President began drafting it early to-
day and completed 1t in two hours.
The councils communication was re-
ceived only yesterday. and the speed
with which the reply was prepared
here was said to constitute some
thing of a record.
Would Publish the Notes.
It was learned today that President
Wilson favors making public the text
of the recent notes exchanged be-
tween this country and the allied goy-
ernments relative to the Adriatic con-
troversy. but this will not be done
unless the other powers agree
A suggestion that this publicity be
given the notes has been cabled to
Paris and London, where there is a
great demand for such a course, and it
is probable that the notes will be pub
lished simultaneously on both sides
of the Atlantic within two or three
days
Adheres to His Position.
The President went to his study
at $3.50 am. today and. summoning
his stenographer. Immediately began
debating the reply He was under
stood to have answered the councils
contention point for point and to
have adhered to the position taken
in his note of February 10.
The allied note received yesterday
is about as long as the Presidents
first note,", it was said at the White
House. Reports from London said
the allied reply contained about 1000
words and this figure was accepted
by White House ofhcials as being ap-
proximately correct.
Warning Was Sent Premierx.
1t is now pretty well established
that in that communicated the Presi-
dent informed the allied countries that
if they proceeded to settlement of
the Adriatic question without the con-
sent and participation of the American
have to decide whether it could be-
come a party to the treaty of YER
sailles and the Anglo-French-Am
pact.
The note received from the council
yesterday was sent to the White House
Immediately after it was decoded. and
the President studied it very carefully
during the afternoon and the evening.
When he was ready to begin work to-
day, he was understood to have had his
reply well outlined in his mind, and,
consequently. was able to dictate it in
a short time.
Premiers' Reply COnciliatory.
Cable dispatches indicated that the
last note OF the allies was concilia-
tory and that the whole question OF
Fiume and the Dalmatian littoral was
at least reopened to negotiation.
There was 4 suggestion also that the
allied premiers had asked the United
States to indicate the practical steps
that could be taken to carry out the
original agreement as to the Adriatic,
under which Fiume was to be erected
into Q free state under the league Of
nations and the principle of self-de-
termination followed in disposing of
the Dalmatian coast. 1t was said to be
the European view that the seizure Of
Fiume by d'Annunzio and his Italian
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