AGREEMENT WITH ALLIES

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 8

AGREEMENT WITH ALLIES

INDUCEMENTS THAT LED

TO WAR

PROGRAMME OF CONCESSIONS.

(UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIGHT.)

(AUSTRALtAN-NBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received February 16/3.20 p.m.)

MILAN, ,15th February.

The text of the Pact of London, which determined Italy's participation in the war, has been divulged in. the Chamber of Deputies. ' It stipulated that Italy should receive the Trentinb, Istoia, Dalmatia, the Adriatic islands, and the Gulf of Valona.

Italy ■ agreed that if a small autonomous State was formed in Albania, she would not oppose the division of Northern and Southern Albania between Montenegro, Servia, and Greece. The Entente acquiesced to Italian sovereignty in certain of the iEgean Islands, and also to certain Italian rights in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the right to increase Italy's (African possessions if Britain and France did likewise.

The British Government agreed to facilitate an Italian loan in London for £50,000,000. ,

The fifteenth article said that Britain, France, and Russia, pledged themselves to support Italy in declining to permit representatives of the Holy See to participate at the Peace Conference and in the settlement of war questions.