The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1920-02-19
JUSTICE BAILEY
GRANTS INJUNCT'N
UNITED STATES
IS REPRESENTED
At Paris and Reviews Acts of
the Supreme Council in
London Disclosed
BY ADRIATIC INCIDENT

Washington, Feb. 19.-President
Wilson today began debating his re-
ply to the Allied Supreme Councils
note on the Adriatic situation and
hopes to be able to have it finished
and ready to be transmitted today
or tomorrow. There was no intima-
tion at the White House as to the
tenor Of President Wilson's reply.
Washington, Feb. 1S.-President
Wilson's note to the allied supreme
council regarding the Adriatic ques-
ton which caused something of
stir in this, as we'll as the allied coun-
tries, APPARENTLY has served to re-
open the whole subject of negotia-
ton.
The supreme councils reply was
received today at the State depart
ment, but wis withheld. London ad
vices said the note was conciIiatory.
The State Department made no
comment on this, but it was pretty
well understood that the Entente
Premiers' communication had att
least removed the Adriatic question
from the status in which it was af-
ter the council communicated it's
settlement to Jugo-Slavia in the
form of an aultimatum without the
United States being a party to the
agreement.
The Jugo-Savs were given the op-
tion of accepting the councils plan
or submitting to the carrying out OF
the Adriatic provision of the secret
! treaty of London, negotiated be-
| fore the United States entered the
war. In this connection it was dis
| closed today tht President Wilson
in his note again came out definite
ly against the application of this
treaty.
1t also was understood that the
President had taken the position
that regardless of the operation o
the treaty of Versailles and the LIE;
! que of Nations, the United State
should be a party to the Adriatic Sc
tement because of it's position as
co-belligerent.
While the Presidents reply wa
being received at the State depart
ment from Ambassador Davis,
suggestion came from Europe tha
the premiers had invited the Ameri
can government, in the event that
still held that the original Adriati
agreement made at Paris on De
cember 9, should be carried out, t
indicate the practical steps tha
could be taken to execute this agre
ment, if it should be accepted b
Italy and Jugo-S1avia.
Under the terms or the Decembe
9Th settlement to which the Unite
States was a party Fiume was to
erected into a free state under tn
League of Nations and in other re
spects the general principle Of sell
determination of the peoples affec
ed was to be put into force. Th
seizure of Fiume by D'Annunzio,
, was suggested, had changed cond
tions in the Adriatic and the inabi
ity of indospisition of the Italia
government to restore the statJ
> quo appeared to place the weight {
: responsibility for doing so upon tn
entente powers of the United State
: 1t was realized that none of the:
j. was willing to undertake such
move and consequently other mea
:, ures to meet the case were conside
!. ed. AS comment upon this sugge
). tion involved a disclosure of SON
of the features of the latest enten
note, the State Department had not
ing to say on the subject.
It An alternative cuggestion conten
: plating the naturalization of the e.
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