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AMERICAN OPINIONS.
LONDON, April 25, New York reports that most of the evening papers, commenting on the Italian crisia, incline to the belief that Italy's defection would not vitally affect the final peace treaty. They support President Wilson's content
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We don't pretend that our editorial
to-day is the last word that can be said on the dispute between Italy and President Wilson. It expresses our present point of view. To help the public, to get a right understanding, we give here a letter written to the HUNGARY WANTS ARMISTICE. Canton Times by Mr. Volpicelli, which we have condensed slightly. President Wilson's views we have
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LONDON, April 25.
The Lokal Anzeiger has reports from Vienna, that the Hungarian Soviet requested the Entente Mission to send representatives to Budapest to negotiate concerting AD armistice, whereupon the
new.
ions as regards the Adriatic settle tente replied Indicating its readi- ment professing to regard Signor ness to "conclude an armistice if the
government abdicated and a Orlando's withdrawal as a typically
cabinet representing all the bourgeois Italian emphatic gesture. The
parties in Hungary were established and all the Soviet decrees withdrawn.
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Sun, however, attacks Wilson's idealist views and holds him respon sible for the present deadlock. It says the Fiume issue is not America'a affair.
AMERICAN, OPINTAINS.
SENATOR ESTORSE PRESIDENT.
Lostox, April 25.
The telegram adde that negotiations will be begun upon these conditions..
COAL REPORT POSTPONED.
LONDON, Apr 1 25.
The coal commission's report will Washington reports that Serator he presented on June 20 instead of Johnson of California and ether
Republican senators endir. as opiginally proposed. Wilson and prowse Tully to support! him if he maintains his attitude and i declines to curry to execution the secret bargains whereby, peoples were
} disposed of wiriout, their knowledge |
BRITISH RULE IN GERMANY.
or consent. They hope the President The eminens Freboh writer and will refuse to recognise Fapan's secret, bargains.
langungos, eager to serve under any rule, prone to curb wider any yoke, and proud of the domination. Thus the British authorities, with tactful and cold comprehension and a sort of distant contact, are sing the Huns as their fanuli, not their slaves, as the higher domesticity of the househoil. But if the British natural se ustlemen, even towards the bandits who slew 10,000 od their civilians on sea and 5,000 on
Before any other statement, it is my duty to inform your readers that foreigners have no idea of the inten about Fiume, hor of the indignation sity of the national feeling in Italy caused by ill-judged comments and actions of certain Allied persons...
to the hot-beads but was expressed The indignation was not confined
by the calmest and most representa- tive men in Italy: Months ago, Malagodi, the editor of the Tribuna the principal paper in Rome, wrote an article on the subject and put as heading the old Italian proverb God save me from my friends, for I can take care of my enemies
myself" Unfortunately the heading
was justified by many events that have taken place lately:"
As for Fiume, by all reasons of nationality and self-determination, it should go to Italy. "It has always been an Italian city, and has been recognised as such by Austrians and Hungarians: it is extraordinary that our Allies should onthe contrary deny this self-evident character of the city. Moreover Fiume has always wished. and wishes to be Italian, so on the principle of self-determination it should go to Italy,
The support of the Servians in their outrageous pretensions has been a shocking exhibition of bad taste. How can we be asked to give up our Italian fellow countrymen to the care of the Servian Government! Let us consider what has been the record of gruesome assassination of Queen this Government. It started with the
thrown out of the Palace windows on Draga, whose naked corpse
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cumstances were so horrible that for some time the British Government would not recognise such a band of assassins.
In 1912, after the first Balkan the Servian Government War, succeeded in wrecking the Peace Conference at London and bringing about the Second Balkan War, just as now they are trying to wreck the Peace Conference at Paris.
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area occupied by the Alles He says Turis reports that L. Pachitteh, that all through the British any of the chief Serbian delegate, wis inter-tienily in the hands of German clerks occupation, an Allied officer is pine- viewed by Wenter and said one of the Alles greatest stakes since theter billeting information, and all other commodities, and they dre Jumistice was allowing Italian troopt zeulous, courteous, versed in alt to the public square.
to occupy Dalmatia. Most of the trouble with Italy is due to that.
ORLANDO: STILL" TALKING." [The first part of this message has reely been published.] Signor Orlando opined that Mr. Wilson as an advocate of the right of self-determination must himself recognise the right for Fiume, the ancient city, which had proclaimed that she was pro-Italian. Ever before the Italian ships were near." Moreover, if the right were denied land that is to say, if they are on grounds of its international charbeither offensive por obtrusive in the unter, then such international ports slightest degree versus the conquered as Antwerp, Geaca, and Rettenlamet do they love no opportunity of were refuting precedents. Further bringing bome substantially to the more, he chimed that among the German the band fact that they are As you know, the German various Dational
organisation; victors. which the Peace Conference was papers are all published with this establishing none of these reorganised notice over the title: Erscheint mit peoples would contain, within their Erlaubnis der britischen militaris- new frontiers a number of foreignerschen Dehorde (issued by permission proportionately less than that which of the British Military Command), He Ob, Jolm Buli, my friend, what a would be assigned to Italy.. asked why should Italian nspirations rovenche! Whilst I was in Cologne especially be suspected as imperialis- the venerable and stately holnische tic cupidity, adding that despite the Zeilung, the Finds of former Ger- history of these negotiations wherein many, tried to work out a little piece firmness had been necessary, the of tomfoolery against the French,
..But not only is the Servian Govern Italian delegation had always showed according to the instructions of the a great spirit of cocciliation in the German propaganda, which is more, ment responsible for the horrors of acuve than ever, and always in the this war, but as soon as success has rosearch for general agreement.
same cid hands. The device was to come to it through the valour of Tal. 345.
The original cause of this terrible. war was the assassination at Serajevo of the Austrian Archduke. It is well- known that at Serajevo three plans for the assassination of the Archduke had been prepared for the same day nowhere has political assassination reached more artistic refinement than in Servia, where it is the best introduction to Court Life. The first plan failed, the second succeeded and so the third became superfluous. The young man who killed the Arch- duke and the Archduchess. (he had been carefully trained in pistol shoot. ing long before the date) was con demned by the Austrians to penal servitude. for life, as he was under age and could not be condemned to death. He died in prison.
IF THIS BE TRUE, ORLANDO'Spise up the British occupation to others, it has shown the blackest in-
NOT,
LONDON! April 25, The es Paris correspondent dochures times the gist of Wilson's manifesto, if not indeed the full, texs was commumicated to Signor Orlando by Mr. Wasou ten days ago
of it.
AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE.
LONDON, April 25. It is "anticipated that the Austra lian Commonwealth's air force will total 1,400 officers and mea in two years' time. It is proposed that in structors shall subsequently thor cugbly train all men desiring to be come civilian flyers...
the detriment of the French: Agratitude, It was the Italian fleet that. French Ally is proud to state that on saved the remnants of theServian army the very moment when the number and now the Servian Government the paper appeured the editor of wishes to rob Italian cities. But there. the Kolnische sus summoned to the is still worse! When Austria, one British B. H.Q, and simply told that of the greatest military Fowers of "that would hot do, and that the Europe, declared war against. Servia; paper, would have to be suppressed the first to rally to the side of the for a week. The jollyield Boche tool latter was the King of Montenegro it for a vague warning, and was with his heroic people." What has totally flabbergasted to find on the been the reward for this heroic self- next moming that his august paper sacrifice? As soon as the Greeks was suppressed for a week. Other shattered the power of Bulgaria slight but trenchant hints as to their (American papers have shown that present conditions are also given to in the last great Balkan offensive the the Huns in the most remote and Greeks had more troops than all the direct manner, such as posters on the other Allies put together)the Servians walks, printed in English, which all overran Montenegro and forced a the German middle class can read: boges political vote for the union of The causes of the Germos defeat; the country to Servia. Montenegrin are travelling through a public lecture by Captain X, of patriots the British Staff, and posters, posters Europe, vainly trying to arouse interest for their ruined country. all over the town in English, point Those who wisa to defend small ing to the YM.C.A., and to all sorts countries have no better case than LONDON, April 25 The ban on civil aviation is to be of permanent pleasurable pericem Montenegro, the smallest most heroic removed on May 1 when flying unces of the British, such as the daily country of Europe, ungratefully and will be permitted along seven
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All intimacy, however, even a bitant ambition of Servia. aerial routes radiating
But to its other crimes the Servian from London and extending to Scot mere conversation in the streets. with land, Dublin, Belfast, Plymouth, the German women-folk, is streng Government has added the most de-i Bristol, France, and Holland. In a perboten, which mest means the grading shamelessness. They have s court-martial. The exhumed from the prison graveyard statement issued by the Air Ministry, threat of details are given of the routes and British wives, lovers, mothers," and the body of the assassin of the Au- facilities to be afforded by the waters at home can feel peridotly strian Archduke and intend to erect Government to civil pilots at various resoured their boys are on their best a monument to him as the author. of stations between the starting point behaviour in Germany-not billeted the war that has benefitted Servia more than any other country, more than and destina lon. It is the intention in barracks, but in convents,
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