Italians Strongly Adhere to Demands.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XVII, Issue 7156, 25 April 1919, Page 3

Italians Strongly Adhere to Demands.

As.-.-, and K.Z. Cable A.ssoo. i*aris. April 23. A serious crisis lias arisen in the iVaeo (.Viiiforonco ovor the Adriatic MiJt>tio: ; . Tiie Italians adhere Aviih the utmost determination to their deiiiands for a frontier line \vliicii will give tliem complete security, and their delegates as well as the Hume papers declare, that despite mo t;ns;s the conquered territory ">viii reiiiatii iralinn whatever hap

J 1;i t- ii«.- <uiiiM- hand. I'cc.-ideut V\'ilsdii i^ adanmnt in liis refusal to I'-t-rniii the annexution of any tcn-jS

t'"i-v beyond the old frontier. The utmost he is prepared to oifer Italy !■- i.he annexation of some of the small, islands of the Adriatic and the neutralisation of Z:ira, tiro port and capital of Daimatia. He lias also made a statement that it is impossible f.ii- Fiumr- fo }>ecomo part of Jtaly. Thus a (.-oiupleto deadlock exists. Lloyd (George is strenuously endeavouring to prevent the Italians abandoning the conference. It is ass-rted (hut the Italian delegates wijl not attend the meeting with the German peace delegates at Versailles next Monday,

Siynor Orlando is preparing to issue a counterblast to President W i l.son "s statements regarding Italy's demands.

Two days ago the Italians placed a proposition before the Council, which was in the naunc of bargaining over Finnic and the Dalmatian Hinterland, but Mr "Wilson opposed (he principle of! bargaining.