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ITALY'S CLAIMS. PROP ORLANDO'S REPLY TO PRESIDENT WILSON.

RELATIONS."

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 18TH, 1918.

6rras that with the concessions which it mentions Italy would be extended to the walls of the Alps, which are her natürali

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ROYAL ITALIAN

CIRCUS

(Established Rome 1863)

As it appeared on TWO occasions before THEIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE V. QUEEN MARY and the ROYAL Family at Buckingham Palace.

defence. This recognition is of great im «ANINNOVATION IN INTERNATIONAL-portance, provided the left flank of that wall is not left open. 'and that Monty The following is the text of Professor Nevuse, which divides the waters, flowing Oclande's Statemment. in reply to the towards the Black Sen from those talling memorandum issued by President Wilsur into the Mediterranean, is included in Italy's right to such a line. This is the in regard to Italy's elaini to Flame :

Kesterday, is ad a time when the mountain that the Latins themselves assendled Itafinn, delegation was discus, always called Limes liens from sing a counter-print which had been time when the true.configuration of Italy Bent it by the British Prime Minister, was realized in the sentiment and the art which had as its object to wreoncile inscience of the people. Without that The contradictory tendencies which had protection a dangerous breach would re- revented themselves regarding "Italy's main yawning in that adivirable natural territorial aspirations. the Paris newsbarrier, the Alps, and it would mean the mesangs from the breaking off of that unquestionable poli tical, historical, and economic unity which papers published a

the peninsula of Istria forus, and 1 fur-AT ther think that he who can proudly claim right of people to self-determination is having proclahued to the world the free. mitted to the judgment of the Conference.the very one who is bound to recognise The practies of addressing unescir direct that right in the case of Fiume, un an- Ty to peoples surely constitutes anciens Italian city, which proclaimed its it 2117 excellent Mimosatan me international renters tation unity before the Italian ships

mem to complain of that, but were anywhere near

Fresident of the United States, in which 'the latter expressed his own ideas on the Bubject of the gravest of the problems sub.

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i taxe note ut is murder, to my tan,xample of national consciousness T 200 Performing Animals 200 To deny that right simply for the THE ROYAL ITALIAN CIRCUS. PLAYED FOR TWO YEARS IN to allow this example, since this newtained for centuries

reason that it is a rause, of a small com- Bystem, without any doubt, tends to give "the people a wider participation in mter- aatronat questions, and 1 personally have unity would be to admit that the HENGLER'S CIRCUS LONDON always a 2 opinion tant such partiiterion of justice to different peoples AND GAVE 1200 CONSECUTIVE yuries according to their territorial elpation was a sign of the new times.

Nevertheless, 11 such appeals are to be extent, and, if the denial of this right is PERFORMANCES regarded as addressed to the peuples, as to be based on the international character apart from the Governments representing of the port, have we not the cases of

cannot but feel

Antwerph

Genoa,

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THE Daily Telegraph, LONDON," SAYS: THE PROGRAMME IS AS FULI. OF

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WITHOUT A CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. Rotterdam inter (A. RECORD UNEQUALLED BY

ANY CIRCUS) them and I will even say almost against national ports serving as offtlets for the those Governments -1 great regret at the thought that this promost diverse peoples and regions without their national cedure, hitherto employed unly in the case their having to pay dearly for this PRESS OPINION: of ending cvernments, is to-day for the privilege, by the stilling first time applied to a Guvernment which conscience! And can one describe as ex- bas been, is, and means loyally to remain. Sive Italy's aspiration towards the the friend of the Great American Rest of Dalmatia, that buwark of Italy public. namely the Italian Government. throughout the centuries which Roman I may further complain that such a mesenius and Venetian activity made noble. sage afdressed to the people should have and great, and whow Italianism, defying been published at the very moment when for a whole century all sorts of implac able persecations, to-day shares the same the Allied and "Associated Powers were

With regard to Poland. tha people: negotiating with the Italian Government, nurs of patriotism as the Italian! that is to say with that same Govern principle is proclaimed that alenationali, ment whose sistance had been sought

arbitrary methods should not constitute and appreciated in numerons and grave satin rights obtained by violent and

have been questions which

apply the same principle to Dalmatia! hitherto in close and complete solidarity grounds for de jure chains; why not Rot 1 shall above all have reason to com

And if we wish to support this rapid. plain that the declarations in the Per

synthesis of our good international fights- sidential message were intended to draw by cold statistical facts I believe I am n. thetion besiren the Italian Gov

able to state that among the various ement and the Italian people, since in national reorganisations which the Pence they rise our would be going so far as Conference is already brought about or to ignore and to deny the high degree of may bring about in tht future none of riviti atson, which the Italian people has these reorganised peoples will count atta. in the forms of a demeratic and within its new frontiers a number of liberal gime, in which it vields place people of a foreign race proportionately to other people in the world.

To draw, so to speak. a distinctions than that which would be assigned to Italy. Why, therefore, is it especially

treated

Between the Italian-fiovernment and the the Italian aspirations that are to be Italian people would be to imply that suspected of Imperialistic cupidity 7 that great free people was capable of submitting to the yoke of a will that was f its own, and I shall be constrained te pratest vigorously against suppositions so justifiably offensive to my country.

Bat to come to the contents of the pre- sidential message. It is entirely devoted

In spite of all these reasons, the history of these negotiations will demonstrate that the firmness which was necessary to the Italian delegation was always asso. ciated with a great spirit of conciliation in the research for n general agreement. that we all wished for fervently. The Pre-

claration of friendship of America to wards Italy. I answer, in the name of the Italian people, and I acclaim with pride this right and this honour which is dae me ne the man who in the most tragic hoar of this war has attered to the Italian people the cry of resistance at all costs. This cry was listened to, an- swered with a courage and abnegation. of which few examples can be found in And Italy, the history of the world. thanks to the most hernie sacrifices and the purest blood of her children, has been able to elimb from an abyss of misfortune to the radiant summit of the most re- sounding victory. It is, therefore, in the name of Italy that I in my turn express the sentiment of admiration and deep sympathy that the Italian people has for the American people.

V. E. ORLANDO.

IRISH PRESS," POWERS OF THE NEW CENSOR.

to showing that the Italian claims outsidential message ends by a warm de side certain limits laid down in the ines Enze violate the principles apon which the new figime of liberty and justice between the peoples should be founded Thow principles I have never denied, and President Wilson will do me the justice to acknowledge that in the long con versations we have had I have never appealed to anything but the force of renson and justice. in which I have always believed, and still believe, that Italy aspirations are årmly based. I have not been so fortunate as to convince him. deplore it sincerely, but Pre sident, Wilson himself had the goodness to admit in the course of nur conver sations that truth and justice are the monopoly of no one, and that all men are liable to err, and I may add that error is all, the easier, the more complex are the problems to which principles are aplied. Humanity is something so im- Liense, the problems raised by the life of peuples are so infinitely complex that nobody can believe he has found in any fixed number of propositions a means of Rolving them as simple and as certain as if it were a case of determining the dimensions, volume, and weight of bodies with the various units of measurement When I say that more than once the Con- ference bas found itself brought to for the present in the interests of the It is impossible radical charge of sentiment in cases where

to permit any sec the Government for the there has been a question of applying peace of the country. those principles. I de not think that Ition of the Irish Press to be used as an am showing any lack of deference towards instrument of incitement to organised or for the that august assembly. On the contrary or other defiance of the law Buch changes were and are a part of all purpose of inflaming public opinion to huma judgment, 1 merely mean that a pitch in which acts of lawlessness be experience brought out all the difficulties come possible. There is sufficient reason encountered in the application of ab- to fear that were there no effective legal For might be made to secure stract principles of nature to concrete restrictions upon publication attempts

publicity cases of infinite complexity and variety.

And so with all deference, but with all matter of this description, The Defence firmness. I must regard the way in which of the Realm Regulations give to the Gov- President Wilson in his message applies ernment the power to suppress or procced against any paper or other publication his principles to the Italian chime which lends itself to these dangerous pu

Government altogether unjustifiable It is impossible

of that nature Occasion forced to use be for me in a document of this kind to poses. This power the repeat the detailed demonstrations which have been produced in such great abund is given, but there is no intention on the

virtue of this Ance. I will simply say that assertions Part of the Government to attempt, by

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"The

The following official communiqué was' issued to the Trish Press recently: Irish Government has decided to retain the office of the Press Censor in Ireland

such as that the collapse of the Austrate political to interfere with |

Hungarian Empire involves a reduction

discussion or propa I must further be understood

is voluntary the story will he called upon. of Italy's aspirations will not be received

to the censor,

anr, whose without reserve. I think I may even be newspaper (1 permitted to believe the contrary, that to submit proofs is to say, that the moment ben all the functions will be purely advisory. heterogeneous peoples who constituted need he refer to the censor unless of his volition. It is open to every such that Empire are seeking to organise them publisher to produce any selves according to their ethnical and

Nor

natural affinities, the essential problem may wish on his own reibility, but

presented by the Italian claims can and ought to be completely solvad.

ITALY'S FATURAL FRONTIER,

to

ho

that he

the fact that i without

proj published by him whos any matter is is obviously deliberately in viciation of the Defence of the Realm

provided, Now the problem is the problem of the is liable to the penaltica:

publication of which in "Adriatic, in which are summed up the Where

matter the whole right of Italy ancient and modern, the United Kingdom would he an offence the whole of the martyrdom, she has against the Defence of the Realm Begu- suffered through the centuries, hallations has been published, cither abroad the benefits which she is destined to or in the United Kingdom, thero is no inherent right in any publisher to repro- confer on the great international com munity. The Presidential mesange af duco it."

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