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italy Promises to Evacuate the
Greek Island Of Corfu on
September 27.
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By EDWARD ". PIckARD

ITALY-which means Premier Mus
! solini-became more reasonable last
week in the matter Of the occupation
Of Corfu and the dispute with Greece.
In the council Of ambassadors Lord
Crewe intimated that Great Britain
could not permit the Italians to hold
Corfu until Greece had executed all
the terms and demands. including the
arrest and punishment Of the muir
derers Of the Albanian boundary COM
missioners. and there were unofficial
references to the British feet which
was supposed to be concentrated at
Malta. Baron Avezzana thereupon
agreed reluctantly that Italy should
evacuate Corfu on September 27. and
the ambassadors accepted this promise.
Italy. however. insisted that II the
assassins were not discovered by the
interallied commission Of inquiry and
duly punished. Greece shall pay heavy
indemnity, not to exceed the $4,000. 900
lire she has deposited In Swiss bank.
II the murderers are found and pun
ished. the payment to be exacted will
be nominal To this also the ambas-
sadors agreed. Baron Avezxana said
his government fully believed Greek
officers were responsibls for the crime
and that the Athens governpent would
do all 1t could to hide thf criminals
and save them from punishment.
Early In the week 1t seemed that the
DItalo-Greek row had been ended by the
decision Of the ambassadors, who i'm
posed on Greece conditions almost iden-
ticai with those In Nussolinl's ulti-
matum. Both nations accepted these,
but the quibbling that followed almost
exhausted the patience Of the League
Of Nations, and the little powers In
lhe league saw In Italy's tactics
threat against their own future safety.
Mussolini complained that Greece was
doing nothing to hnd the murderers Of
the boundary commissioners. There
upon Greece arrested number of men
and also. asserting that the real Grim
inals were Albanians called on Al
bania to capture them. Albania re-
piled that the Albanian authorities
would be pleased to cross over into
Greece and arrest them II the Greek
government was not able to do 1t.
OF WALY'S two quarrels. that with
~ Jugo-Slavia held the greater pos
sibillties of expanding into actual hos
tilities. II 1t should result in warfare,
however, Greece also might well be in
volved. NJ. Ninchich. head Of the Jugo-
Slavian delegation in Geneva, said he
had not yet gone beyond the stage of
negotiations. In Paris 1t was asserted
that Italy was about to proclaim the
Siavia would make no serious protest
provided Sussak and Porto Barros,
adjacent towns, were not directly af-
fected. Italian troops are concentrated
at Trieste and the Italian navy is
ready at Taranto. The Serbs are hur-
riedly reorganizing their army on
French lines and are getting great
quantities Of ammunition from France,
purchased with part of their new
French loan of 3O0,0OO,OOO francs.
Colonel Gonatas. head Of the Greek
government says Italy is sending
large quantities of arms and ammu-
milton to yarna to equip the Bulga-
rians for war II Jugo-SIavia and
Greece combine against Italy. Ru-
mania and Czechoslovakia show indi-
cations of remaining neutral or siding
with Rome.
A s MAY be supposed, the sessions
"A of the League Of Nations last
week were not especially pleasant.
Delegates Of the lesser nations were
impatient and dissatisfied, and repre-