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Show : . ITALIANS HOLD BIG DEMONSTRATIONS I IN ROME, UPHOLD CABINET AND SHOUT I 'VIVA AMERICA,' 'DOWN WITH WILSON' I Show Good Will by II Shouting "Viva II America!" j I AMBASSADOR'S REPLY ! Conference Circles Be- lieve Amicable Solution I With Italy Near. I ROME. Thursday. April 2 1 A huge I t crowd of manife'stants, parading through. Rome toward the capital, passed before the American embassy j I late today just as Ambassador Page I came out for a walk. The demonstr. ! I i tors shouted ".Viva America " j The ambassador replied ' Viva If. I E aly." . 4-"'' 'Nil' i pi HPij . . ' - i I EXPECT AMICABLE SETTLEMENT, I L PARIS, April 2o. Peace conferenc circles were inclined to believe todav M hat an amicable solution of lhe Ital- ian incident war. (be naking. For one thing. Italy has shewn her desire to maintain good relations with, ihr- allies by the fart ih.it the Italian Jrl.-at ;; n maining in l';i,:s will co ,. "n,1P ,-ri collaborate in the v ork of the IB Inter-allied commisisoh hot pertaining : to the actual work of the peace , n. II It is thought pvrsible ihta Premier I - Orlando maj ( all the Italian pari i I ment togethi r at an earlii i date 1 1 an ! Ma fi. ..s proMourly f I x -1 1 ,-ind tha' n" j may be baek in Paris for the opening I , of the negotiations at Versailles which ! will not begin before the first or sec. ! "ml of M;.; Hopeful Outlock i PARIS, pril 25. A distinctly mor I noplul -'Qd U ss irreconoilable r o -i .prevailed at Italian headquarters- to- My. No longer was there talk of a preach with the peace conference, bur instead it was said: "All may be settled within ;i fort- jni?ht. Premier Orlando has gon-- to I Lome to consult parliament. There-P There-P 'lier w. . " I The session will bo open to the nub- lie. " It is understood thai if the eovenant I ls approved it win immediate li be I , wade public ' . Orlando's Reply to Wilson. PARIS. Thursday. April 25. In the t statement given out todav bv Premier F (,rlndo in reply to President YI-. u j appeal on the Adriatic question, stress as laid by the Kalian prime minister upon ihr. qUf.si ion of the proprli I any attempl from iAo outside to i et j P opposition biween the- Haii;ri peo 1 Pic and their governmeni. As revealed oy iho full text of thf premier's ment now availahle, after arguing thai s-uoh an attempt would Virtually mean 'ne lqnonnp and denying ol the bigh I Ootoh of riviluation which the Kalian Kal-ian people had attained under demo- "t?110 Pvprnmeni Hv pr.-im. r :.,!.!.: ro oppose, so to speak, the It; ilan t , covernmrnt aud people would be to I ha' this great, free nation. could submit io tho yoke of i Will ; other than it,; own.-and I shall bo torred to protest vigorously against , uch supposition.-, unjust ly offensive I to my rountry." I In a subsequent part of his itate- 2 I fr111, Premler Orlando in referring to 'ne conferences that have been held in an effort to solve the territorial frobloms affe. tm- Italy during which, , 'ne pp-uiier said, President Wilson Bad had ihr kindness to recognise 'h.t 'ruth and justice are ib" monopoly ot no one person" and that all men tre subject to error, Premier Orlando ' ontinued l "And I add that the error is all the j easier as the problems to which the Principles apply are the more COmpli . I Wunianlty is such an imm. ns.- ihing. itte prdblems raised by the life ol Lhe P ople are so inflnlle"l complex ih.it nobody cm believe that he baa found I o a determined number 0f proposals I as simple nnd stirc a way to solve I hem as if it were a question of de erminin: the dimensions, the volume nd the weight of bodies with various "nits of measure. Wilson Appeal Unjustified. I m Wniie remarking thai more than U tt-'nee t.br cnnfer-io. nearly tailed com- jPletely when ir was a question 01" ap-I ap-I plying these principle.-, do not believe be-lieve I am showing disrespect toward this assembl . On the contrary, thes" 1 bangeS have been and still arc lhe 1 consequences of human liberty 1 mean to say only that fxperience has proved lhe difficulties in the application applica-tion of ihese principles of an abstract nature to concrete eases. Thus v.ith all due reverence, but. firmly. I con-jsider con-jsider as unjustified the application made by President Wilson In his message1 of his principles to the Haitian Hai-tian claims." Declaring that one could not accept iwiihout reservation the statement thai I the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian emnjre implied a reduction of Italian aspirations, the premier added: K is even permissible to believe ecn the contrary, that is, that at the r rj moment, when all the varied peoples peo-ples who constituted that empire .oucrht to organize according lo their ethnic and national affinities that the essential problem caused by lhe rtal-ian rtal-ian claims can and must be complerelv solved "Now this problem is that of the ! Adriatic, in which are summed up all the richts of both the ancient and the! I new Italy, all her sufferings through-1 it'Ut the centuries and all the ben- fits she is destined to bring to the great' international community " PARIS. April 25-The remaining LmemberB of the council of four, now that Premier Orlando has left France did not hold a meeting during the fore-I fore-I noon. j The chief interest attached to the laTternoon session p whether Foreign I Minister Sonnino of Italy will attend land continue the discussion of the , Kalian question as he intends to leave for Rome tonight. However, it is not considered likelv that he will attend. at-tend. ROME. April 2." "Long live America' Amer-ica' Down with Wilson!" was the watchword of various demonstrations in Rome last nisht. "Italy." says the Epoca, "fought a desperate war and sustained heavy sacrifices for the purest ideals, the realization ol which is jeopardized by the unreasonable obstinacy of President Presi-dent Wilson." 00 |
