ITALY AND JUGO-SLAVIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11770, 1 March 1919, Page 5

ITALY AND JUGO-SLAVIA.

OMINOUS SIGNS OF WAR. MOBILISATION ORDERED. ITALY REFUSES ARBITRATION. New York, February 28 The New York World’s Paris correspondent states that relations between Jugo-Slavs are causing the gravest anxiety. The Peace Conference, fearing hostilities, is preparing preventive economic measures later. It is (reported shots have been exchange! by ’the opposing forces. London, February 27. The Jugo-Slavs have authorised general mobilisation, claiming that the Izonzo river be made the boundary of Jngo-Slavia and Italy. Italy has suspended the return of Jugo Slav prisoners, and refuses to allow President Wilson to arbitrate. THE LEAGUE ACCLAIMED IN ITALY. WHOLE PEOPLE ENTHUSIASTICALLY IN FAVOUR, Keceiv February 9, 9.20 a.m. Washington, February 28, Signor Orlando cabled President Wilson that the whole of the Italian people enthusiastically acclaim the League of Nations project. A BOLSHEVIK FAILURE A CONFERENCE WITH THEM ABANDONED Paris, February 27. M. Tardieu states in view of the failure of the Bolsheviki to comply with the condition that the propesal to held the Prinkipi Conference has been abandoned

BOLSEHYIK AIMS PLANS FUR THE PRESENT YEAR London, February 27. The Australian Press Association correspondent learns that a captured document reveals plans of the Russian Military Commander, of Moscow for 1919. Recent Bolshevik attacks show that these plana have been carried out more or less successfully on several Russian fronts, particularly the Ukraine Though attacks in Esthonia and North Caucasus plains have tbua far failed there is accumulating evidence of a missing Bolshevik force on the Archangel front, while onfthe Murmansk front the enemy has retired twenty miles, blowing up a large quantity of stores The Esthonians have captured Ar eusburg on Uesel Island, but the Bolsheviks definitely possess Kieff. Of the Pletnras force, which consisted of about forty thousand, only ten thousand remain loyal.