SETTLING THE DIPLOMATIC PRELIMINARIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2447, 28 April 1915, Page 7

SETTLING THE DIPLOMATIC PRELIMINARIES

ITALY AND THE WAR AGREEMENT WITH THE ENTENTE POWERS London, April 26. The newspaper "Echo de Paris" publishes an apparently' officially-inspired Note indicating that an agreement between Italy and the Entente Powers is near conclusion, and that under the. agreement Italy will intervene in the war. Telcguvms from Borne state that the Austro-Gerraans are playing for time. ITALY'S RIGHTS IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES. Romo, April 26. - The "Corriere d'ltalia" publishes a declaration by a personago connected with the Consulate that, as the result of pourparlers with London, Italy's tights regarding Trent, Trieste, and the Dalmatian Archipelago have been formally recognised. and Italo-Servian interests veconcilcd, including a Servian outlet on the Adriatic. Only the question of Italy's rights in the Aegean Sea and Asia Minor remains unsettled. , OFFER OF AUTONOMY FOR TRIESTE. Rome, April 26. Princo von Bulow's entourage assorts that Austria is finally offering autonomy to Trieste similar to that of Hamburg (which has a Republican State Constitution and Government within the German Empire). AGITATION AGAINST GERMAN PROFESSORS POLICE ROUND-UP OF GERMAN SPIES. Romo, April 26. There is increasing <igitation_against German professors in the Italian universities. Professor Buonanici addressed the students at Pisa, declaring that the time had arrived for Italy to act. The students marched in procession through the 6treets, crying, "War on our eternal onemy!" Tiio polico are rounding up German spies. Several disguised German sfficers were arrested at Cremona while attempting to mine • a bridge over tho River I'o. Two other Germans were arrested at Padua for attempting to obtain plans of the railways. - A Gorman baron named Von Kohler and his wife have been expelled from Romo owing to their relations with spies. GREECE AWAITS THE "PROPITIOUS MOMENT" London, April 26 A message from Paris states that ths 0-reek Foreign Minister has declared ;hat the policy of his Cabinet is identic al with that of M. Yenuelos, the exPremier, and that it is simply a question of the propitious moment.

BULGARIAN KING ON A MILITARY TODE , Parl6 ' A P rU 26 • Uifl Dedeagatch correspondent of "Le Temps" 'states that King Ferdinand has decreed an amnesty to all officers who were sentenced after the Balkan wars. His Majesty.proceeded with Prince Boris and Prince Cyril to Dedeagatch, after inspecting the garrisons at Xanthi and Gumuljina and congratulating the commandants on the fine appearance of tho troops. Great political iuiportauco is attached to the journey. l