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Show fim PLEASED OVER AGREEMENT Defensive Treaty With Jugoslavs Jugo-slavs to Be Concluded At Early Date RAPALLO. Italy. Nov 13 (By the' Associated Press A defensive treaty j between Italy and J ugo-S'.avla will b( neRotlatcd and roncl mled at an early ; date, according; to reports current The apprehension felt In some I quarters that the Serbian constituent ; assembly about to be elected will not, 'approve the Rapallo treaty Is unfound- I ed." Slgnor Bonoml. K.illnn war mln- j ister said t The Associated Press to-1 da- "s M Trumbltcn (the Jin?"- i Slav foreign minister) promised that the treaty will b ratified by royal decree, as was done by Italy In the rase of tho treaty of St Germain STRONG FRONTIER. The Alpine frontier obtained by. us Is the strongest that could be de- j sired for defensive purposes vIM I iv'nt; an; ml alK-l posts from Which I to carry' ool aggresiv measures ga!:ist our neighbors. For this res- son we consented m glv up l.onifatli o. which dominates Letbach. as we do not believe anybody In Italy Is anxious to conquer Lelbach. But our frontier even there is almost Inaccessible. "We spontaneously gave up the : small villages of Castua and Splnlco because they are Slav centers and not necessarv to our defense, We wished to keep Ears not for strategit- purposes or because it can be fortified but only in order to have that great beacon Of I Italian civilization on the rarteVn1 Adriatic. .11 STI.Y SOIA'ED, GEN'O Nov 1 .; --Deputv (3ioulettl. president of the federation of seamen. Bald today that he considered the I Adriatic question Justlv solved and j therefore he does not Intend to glvf further support to any expedition of occupat Ion opposed by the Jueo-Slav and Italian gvcrnments. The deputy's statement is consld- ered most Important as he "was one of the strongest supporters of Gabriel Ci nnun7io. Only through him was the capture of the Italian steamship Cogne and other vessels taken to Flume made possible. |