THE ADRIATIC PROBLEM

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14253, 2 January 1920, Page 5

THE ADRIATIC PROBLEM

j ITALY'S STANDPOINT. | ANSWER J?' 0 CLEMENCEAU. DISCONTENT AT FIUME. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ROME, Dec. 30. Signor Scialoja. Italian Foreign Minister, speaking in the Senate, said that when Italy went to the Peace Conference she did -not claim Fiume, but merely supported Fiume's request to join Italy. Fiume was fully entitled, to make a claim in accordance with the principle of self-determina-tion. Signor Nitti, Prime Minister, traversed JM.'" Clemenceau's statement that : Croatia was .-.entitled to claim Fiume under the Treaty of London. OH the contrary, Croatia was not among the contracting parties. If the treaty'were carried out, Italy could ask for the Dalmatja. She did not wish to in '\is the enmity of the Jugo-Slavs, but it was important' that the Allies should realise that the Jugo-Slavs would not approach Italy with calm minds while the Allies continue to support their slightest demands. The Senate unanimously passed a ..vote of confidence in the Ministry. Messages from Fiume state that d'Annunzio has again expressed his determination to fight to the death. The City Council, which withdrew its support when the anti-d'Annunzio plebiscite was carried, has now decided to support him, in view of d'Annunzio's statement that the Allies have not sanctioned Italy's compromise proposals. The Epoca of Rome states that d'Annunzio has decided to take a new plebiscite. d'Annunzio's supporters are disgusted with the new turn of events, and are arriving in Trieste daily. They sitate that food supplies" are scanty conditions in Fiume are becoming worse. Typhoid has broken out.