Show j ISLAND WOULD BE A REPUBLIC I BACKED BY U. U S. S I By Associated Press I Wednesday I V VIENNA March The 12 inI inhabitants in- in habitants of the German I language islet of I in consisting of one fair sized town and villages have presented the I. I American commission under Professor A At C C. C Coolidge I which is in this city to study Austro Hungarian problems I I a memorandum for transmission trans trans- I mission to Paris and Washington Wash Wash- I I ington asking permission for the formation of a neutral neu- neu I Iii republic under the pro pro- te of the American I people The memorandum points out that half of the population population tion consists of former emigrants emigrants emi emi- grants from the districts to lout the United States many of them American citizens i J 1 |