Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-27
WILSON GETS
QUICK REPLY
FROM ALLIES
Hope of Agreement Believed to
Rest on Italian-JugO
Conference,
U. S. SENATE IN FURRY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The reply o&
the allies to President Wilson'S Iast
note on the Adriatic settlement was re-
ceived at the state department today.
Conferences of senate leaders were has,
tily called today following publication q
the exchange of notes between President
Wilson and the allied premiers over the
Adriatic situation, it being generally
agreed that the publicity given to the
( exchange Of notes had thrown the treaty
situation completely up in the air.
Great Britain will make public q con>
siderable amount of correspondents with
Italy as TO the Adriatic question, il was
( learned.
Acceptance Of President Wilson's pre-
posal for the settlement Of the Adriatte
problem by a conference between Italy
and Jugo -Slavia. is hoped for by officials
Hopes for q settlement Of the entire
Adriatic controversy by reopeuing 01
negotiations between Italy and Jugo~
Slavia were greatly strengthened by Kes-
ports from Paris that the quick reply sx
the allied premiers was due to the action
Of Premier Nitti Of Italy in agreeing to
/ reopen negotiations with foreign Minister
Trumbitch Of Jugo-Slayia.
This is accepted here as almost cer-
tain proof that Lloyd George and Pre-
mier MiIlerand have notified the presi-
dent that they viii withhold further
action in the Adriatic problem until the
proposed conference between Nitu and
Trumbitch has been completed
The proposed go-Slavia-Italisn con
( ference vas the only hope held cut here
today for an amlcable settlement Of the
entire situation. for in the entire exchange
of notes it Ioomed as the one possible
/ way out. since President Wilson and the
entente premiers have shown no dispo-
sition to swerve from their original stand
President Wilson's fat statement, how
I ever. that such a conference could not
agree as TO the disposition of territory
other than that which directly concerns
either Italy. or Jugo-Slavia, brought
some pessimism, for there we're many
/ high officials here who believed that
neither OF the countries concerned in the
T Ariatic controversy would be able to
reach an agreement unless they were
given concessions other than those al
ready granted.
As the United States is still hesitating
to enter the league OF nations, long delay
appears q certainty. Tor in the last Anglo
French note there is no ceding of ground
to the president. while in the latter's re-
ply to Prime Ministers Lloyd George and
Millerand. he fatty states that ne has
mo choice but to maintain the position
he has all along taken" as regards the
/ settlement of the dispute.
/ Holding that the provisions Of the
/ agreement sent as an ulimatum TO Jugo-
/ Slavia would merely continue -the old
/ order of things which brought SO many
evils on the world" President Wilson,
4 in his first communication to the en-
/ tente prem 'ers, declared that K such
3 vvara made eTerfiva time had not
/ come when this government can enter
/ tain a concert Of powers, the very exist
( ence Of which must depend upon a new
/ spirit and a new order" The note then
added
1.-The president desires to say that hs
must taka under serious consideration
I the withdrawal Of the treaty with Ger
many and the agreement betv cen the
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