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Show ADRIATIC PROBLEM SOLUTION BELIEVED TO BE MUCH HER Premier Nitti Disposed to Accept Ac-cept Compromise Settlement of Question STRENGTH OF WILSON IS SEEN IN LETTERS Manchester Guardian Declares President Has Lost No Mental Men-tal Force and Balance WASHINGTON, March 1 Presldenl Wilson has begun work on his answer to the British and French premiers on the Adriatic situation. In preparation for the actual drafting of his note he has written to Acting Secretary Polk at the state department. The mfture of the communication , was not dis-l closed. Mr. Wilson apparently was planning l to make prompt reply to tho premier's ' suggestion that the United 'Slates join wilh the British and foreign governments govern-ments in seeking to .bring about a solu-liQJi. solu-liQJi. .ofhAdrjatic ppblem through direct negotiations between Italy and j the Jugo-Slavs It was noted also that Rome dispatches indicated that Pre-j mier Nilti of Italy already had opened conversations with the Jugo-Slovak authorities au-thorities to this end. There was no 'comment available from officials here as to the extent President Wilson might be willing to go in joining directly wilh Premiers Millerand and Lloyd George in fostering foster-ing these new negotiations. COMPROMISE LIKELY. ROME. March 1. Premier Nitti is disposed to accept a compromise settlement set-tlement of the Adriatic question, according ac-cording to tho Messaggero. By this arrangement, ar-rangement, the newspaper says, Italy iinnll nnt nlnim i nvrillM., 1 nnnlinllllv between Istria and Fiume on condition that the city be placed under Italian sovereignty. The league of nations, it is said, will be in charge of the administration ad-ministration of the port. COMMENT IN ENGLAND. MANCHESTER. Eng.. March 1. President Wilson's loiters in the Adriatic Adri-atic correspondence, just published, 'are considered by the Guardian as "a refutation of the reports that his illness ill-ness had "caused some loss of mental force and balance-" It asks: "If President Wilson is suffering from any malady of political judgment could not some American bacteriologist bacteriolo-gist convey us a few germs that we may Innoculate our European premiers." pre-miers." The Guardian continues-"One's continues-"One's chief regret in reading Pres-, ident Wilson's admirably phrased plea for a wise and honorable policy in the Adriatic is thai it should have been, left to him to frame it. One feels that England somehow has surrendered her rightful part in Ihe drama to an 'American." i oo |