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Show HOSTILITY FOR THE MO-SLAV PARIS, Dec. 8 Growing hostility between Italy and the new Jugo-Slav state is reported by the Swiss press. Both sideto the controversy eagerly anticipate President Wilson's arrival, for it is he upon whom they look as the statesman best fitted to act as umpire. There has been bad blood for some months between Italy and the Jugoslavs, Jugo-slavs, but the differences have been more or less beneath the surface. They came to a climax, however, when tho insurgents of Montenegro decided upon n union with Serbia and deposed King Nicholas, who is the father of tho Italian queen. Rival aspirations for the control of the eastern Adriatic form the basis of the conflict. It has long been an open secret that Italy desires to make the Adriatic an Italian lake. Tho Jugo-Slavs, on the other hand, insist that they need outlets to the sea in order to Insure them the economic econo-mic development to which they regard their young stale as entitled. Hitherto tho censorship has suppressed sup-pressed detailed discussion In the press of the delicate problems involved in the Adriatic questlou. Correspondents Correspon-dents have been unable thus far to publish anything of the complaints by both the Serbs and the Montenegrins, voiced in tho fall of 1915 and repeated with growing ardor and frequency evor since complaints revolving around Italy's failure to rescue Serbia and I Montenegro when the central powers crushed those countries. Whether justified or not, this common com-mon grievance is known to have drawn the two war-battered nations closer and closer together, and out of the union in grief now arises the strong demand by the Jugo-Slavs for the "windows" on the Adriatic. One of the incidents that added fuel to the flames of irritation was the seizing by the Italians of the Viribus Unitis, I the best and most powerful Austrian warship, the -very day after the, Serb-j ians had received the surrender of the Austrian fleet. Then came tho occupation by Italian Ital-ian troops of Fiume and Laibach, towns to which the Jugo-Slavs lay claim by virtue of their over-whelming representation among the inhabitants. inhabi-tants. Tho occupation of these towns by the Italians, indeed, almost caused an open rupture between Jugo-Slavia and Italy. on |