Show I It AlU MAY MA f I DMA DEMAND 4 40 U. U S. S Suggests That Tha T Twelve wel ve Billion Should Be Hun jun Rep Reparation Sum Still in Doubt 4 Dy By AssocIated Press PARIS March Italian dele dee gation to the peace conference hat hall unanimously decided to withdraw from the conference unless Fiume is assigned as' as as- as signed to Italy contemporaneously with the conclusion of peace The decision was reached at a meet ing today of the full fuli delegation presided pre sided over by PremIer Orlando immediately communicated to the pow pow- ers Colonel House of the American mission promises promise Prem Premier ier Orlando to present within a few days a project concerning the tha Slav frontier frontier fron- fron tier which he hopes will satisfactorily s settle the dispute Note The decision or of the Italian deit as reported from Paris apparently apparently ap- ap brings to a head the bitter controversy between Italy and the new Jugo Slay state over the disposition of land along the Adriatic formerly belonging belonging be- be longing to the Austro Hungarian empire empire em- em pire which both nationalities claim Italy's claims originally included virtually virtually vir- vir the entire coast with Trieste and Flume which latter city Is the second principal seaport on the eastern side of the Adriatic Recent reports reports re- re ports have ha been that the representatives were manifesting a disposition tion to make Important concessions regarding regarding re- re garding the land along the coast provided that the city and harbor harbor har- har I bor of Flume remained to Italy The Slavs Jugo-Slavs however have been Insistent I tent that this port be allotted to them claiming it to be a Croatian city I On the other hand there has been no disposition on the part of Italy to yield her points as far as i i. i con con- corned Her attitude was stated by Premier Orlando In addressing the Italian chamber on March 1 1 when he declared that while Italy remained faithful to the spirit of conciliation which Inspired inspired In- In the treaty upon which It ly entered entered en- en the war var that did not mean that she should remain Insensible to the appeal reaching her from the Italian town on the gulf of Fiume which was exposed to the loss of both its nationality and Independence We Ve do not think added the premi pro pre mi mir r that this is possible at the very moment the world may be redeemed I from a memory of violence done to the rights of the people BASEL March The president of the German armistice commission at Spa has presented a note to the inter inter- allied delegates asking if Germany should consider as true statements in inthe in inthe the French and British press that the thep p peace ace treaty would be ready for the Germans as soon as President Wilson approved but that the Germans would be be allowed neither to discuss nor norI I modify the document BerUn Ber- Ber Un advices ARIS Mardi March President I I P pARIS Wilson went to the residence of Premier Lloyd George Thurs Thurs- Thursday day meeting there A. A J. J British secretary of state for forI foreign affairs Premier Clemenceau Clemenceau I Stephen Pichor Pichon French foreign mm- mm I Ister Premier Premier Orlando and Generals and The Thc discussion was I I I chiefly on the question of mandatori I for countries in Asiatic Turkey in in- including including Mesopotamia Palestine Syria Syna and Armenia rho presence of British French and Italian HaHan armies In these regions was one of the factors considered as having a bearing on Some sentiment sentiment senti- senti ment in favor or of the United States becoming becoming be- be coming a mandatory for Armenia was manifested but no decisions were I reached reache as to this or other mandatory proposals TO SETTLE DIFFICULTIES The conference between President Wilson M. M Clemenceau the French premier and David Lloyd George the British prime mInister are designed for the adjustment of differences be- be tween them The differences constitute some or of orthe the larger questions pending now now- reparation for war losses and the l German French frontIer These hese que question ques- ques tion for the moment have assumed assume i. i p Co |