Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-27

Washington, Feb. 26,-President
Wilson in his reply to the British
and French premiers on the Adri-
attic question adheres to his pre-
Vious decision that unless the terms
of settlement are returned to the
cember 8, he must take under
serious consideration the with
drawal of the treaty of Versailles
and the French alliance from the
senate" The response Of the pre-
miers was dispatched from London
today but had not been received
tonight in Washington,
With the exception of this note,
the exchanges on the subject, in
cluding the December 8 agreement
and the subsequent agreement
communicated to Jugo Slavia last
month by the British and French
premiers, were made public today
by the state department.
The joint memorandum of De-
cember 8 subscribed to by France,
Great Britain and the United States
and which it was supposed had set
tied the Adriatic question, provided
in substance the following:
Istria was to have frontier
which while "widely overstepping"
the recognized Ethnical line be-
tween Italy and Jugo Slavia, would
have given to Italy more than 300,-
coo Jdgo Slavs and further extend
ed eastward to give Italy territory
in the region of the city of Albona
also including Jugo Slavs. A buffer
state between the Italian territory
and Istria and the Serb-Croat-
Slovene kingdom containing some
100000 Jugo Slavs, as against
forty thousand Italians was to be
placed under the league of nations.
The so-called Assling region was
to be permanently demilitariZed.
There was to be free state of
Fiume under control and for future
determination by the league with
full autonomy for the city of
Fiume.
The city of cara was to have
complete sovereignty under the
league and complete control of its
own affairs. The islands of the
Pelagosa group, Lissa and the small
islands west of it, Lussin and Unie
were to pass to Italy on a demili-
tarized status with local autonomy
for the Slavs in Lissa. Italy was to
have a mandate over the independ-
ert state of Albania under the
League. Albania's frontiers north
and east were to be those fixed by
the London conference of 1913 but
the south was left for negotiation.
Greece was to have certain terri
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were to be left for negotiation.
The city of Valonia and such
hinterland strictly necessary to de-
fense and economic development
+, were granted to Italy in full sover-
eighty.
These provisions were described
In the memorandum as affording
10 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
security to the point of neutralizing
the Dalmatian islands and adjacent
waters from the northern border of
the Regusa region to Fiume."
Italy, however, had asked for con-
troll of the diplomatic relations of
Zara, dissertation of the city of
Fiume for the free state of Fiume,
connection of the city of Fiume to
Istria by corridor and annexation
to Italy of the Island of Lagosta.
This plan the conferees charac-
terized as counter to every consid-
Grafton of geography. economies
and territorial convenience. TX
planning their reasons for arriving
at the previous decision they de-
clared:
Economic consideration being
equally excluded there remains
nothing but a desire for further
territory. The territories coveted
are admittedly inhabited by the
Jugo Slavs. They contain practical
ly no italian elements" On that
point the memorandum included a
communication from President