THE PACT OF LONDON.
ITALY’S ENTRANCE INTO THE WAR.
THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT.
SPHERES OF ACTION DEFINED.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received February 16, 4 p.m.) MILAN, February 15. The text of the pact of London, determining Italy’s entrance and participation in the war, has been divulged in the Chamber.
It stipulated that Italy should receive the Trentino, Istria, Dalmatia, the Adriatic Islands and the Gulf of St Allona.
Italy agreed that if a small autonomous State were formed in Albania she would not oppose the division of Northern Albania between Montenegro, Serbia and Greece. Tho Entente acquiesced in the Italian sovereignty of certain AEgean Islands and also certain Italian rights in the Eastern Mediterranean, and right to increase her African possessions if Britain and France did likewise. The British Government agreed to facilitate an Italian loan in London of £50,000,000.
The fifteenth article said that Britain, Franco and Russia had pledged themselves to support Italy in declining to permit representatives of the Holy See to participate in the peace conference and in the settlement of war questions.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12244, 16 February 1918, Page 9
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