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Show ALLIES JO MOVE IN ADRIATIC MIXUP PLAN TO TAKE EFFECTIVE STEPS TO SETTLE FIUME AFFAIR, IT IE LEARNED. England and France Evidently Feel That in View of American Rejection Rejec-tion of Proposed Compromise, They Should Use Good Offices. Washington. The allied governments, govern-ments, and not Italy, will take the next steps toward a solution of the Adriatic and Flume problems', it was learned from . entente diplomatic authorities. au-thorities. Intelligence from Paris and London indicates that the French and British governments, In view of President Presi-dent Wilson's definite rejection of the proposed Italian compromise of those issues. In which Italy offered to relinquish relin-quish the advantages accruing to her under the treaty of London, feel that the impasse in the negotiations' between be-tween the United States and Italy Impels Im-pels them to use their good offices to promote a settlement. The alternative, it was said by a high entente authority, was the falling fall-ing back by Italy upon the treaty of London, whose execution would be necessitated by the ultimate refusal by the United Statees to accept the Italian government's effort to meet the wishes of President Wilson, as defined de-fined in the proposal of former Foreign For-eign Minister Tittoni, the finality of the concessions contained in which being declared in a subsequent communication com-munication to this government from Premier Nitti. Italy will not, the dispatches state, seek to force an immediate settlement, settle-ment, but will await developments in the United States, the other allied powers, in the meantimee, assenting to a postponement of the settlement until un-til conditions acceptable to Italy are agreed upon.. It is even probable, it was said, that the British and French governments would propose conditions condi-tions more favorable to Italy than those contained in the Tittoni compromise compro-mise proposal. Gabriele d' Annunzlo will hand over command of the city of Fiume to regular troops' under General Caviglia, former minister of war. The agreement between D'Annunzio and the government solving thee Fiume situation was signed by Premier Nitti and the government solving the Fiume razzi, head of the press bureau. |