WILSON AND FIUME

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3784, 10 May 1919, Page 2

WILSON AND FIUME

WAS HE CONSISTENT ? SOME MORE GUESSWORK. (Received May 10, 10.5 a.m.) Paris, May 9. There is a good deal of speculation as to what led President Wilson to afct Iso suddenly withl Reference to Fiume. One version is that he informed Premier Clomeuceau and Premier Lloyd George on Sunday of the contents of his manifesto, but agreed, after consultation, to withhold it, and that later his colleagues announced a deadlock. He then published the do cunient. .-,"■/ ference to the nature of the ,*nneaxAnother version is that President Wilson learned of sonic overt act contemplated by the Italians in reference to the nature of the annexation of Fiiime, and he acted on this. His attitude over Fiume has raised scrrfeaoene w -otn -oyccihhl esq ith the query of how he can reconcile it with his agreement to yield the S'aar Valley to France. American circles report that President Wilson -will probably shortly state his reasons for this, which he is likely to defend on the ground that the Saar Valley was necessary reparation to France for the enemy's destruction of her coalmines.