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Show ! I No New Instructions Sent the Navy at j Spalato. POLK CONFERRING Annunzio Contemplates Raid on American j Naval Base. WASHINGTON. Nov. 25. - No DW instructions have been sent to Rear Admiral Andrews at Spalato regarding the attitude he is to take in the event of an effort by the d'AnnunzIo forces ;to expand their control over Dalmatia I territory, Secretarv Daniels said today. to-day. Under-Secret? ry Frank L. Polk of I the state department, head of the Am ericas peace delegation at Paris, con ferred yesterday in London with Rear Admiral Knapp. commanding all m erlcnn forces in Luropean waters, re-'gardlnc re-'gardlnc the situation on the eastern ;hore of the Adriatic, where Admiral i Andrews commands American ships assigned to the patrol of a part of the Dalmatian coast under an agreement reached in Paris. Reports that d'Annunzio contemplated contemplat-ed a raid on Spalato, the Aim can naval base, led to the London confer jence, but Mr Daniels Indicated that ' the official on the spot had not recommended rec-ommended any action in anticipation I of such a raid It was recalled that recently when Italian irregulars raided a port In the unoccupied zone between Plume and the Serbian lines, American blue 'jackets were landed and succeeded in preventinc a clash between the Italians Ital-ians and the Serbians. Admiral Andrews has a fleet nf twelve craft with a total personnel of 1480 officers and men. His flagship is the second i lass cruiser Galveston and in the fleet are the gunboat Sacra-I Sacra-I mento. eight destroyers and two sub marine chasers |