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Show Peace Conference m Severely Shaken By Italian Crisis 1 American Storm Broken and Air Cleared in That I Quarter, While Serious Confusion Among Others May Delay Signing of Peace Treaty I Wilson and Orlando Have Highly Dramatic I Meeting Premier Makes Personal Issue Stand Above Territorial Issue Intemation- alization of Fiume Considered. I PARIS, Friday. April 25 5 30 p. m. (By the Associated Press) The peace conference has been severely shaken by the Italian crisis and the extent to which its work will be affected is receiving the anxious attention of the delegates. The American storm has broken and the air has cleared In that quarter, but in other quarters a less optimistic view is taken, the feeling being that an element of confusion has been Introduced which will result in more or less delay at the moment the German delegates are arriving. In French and Italian circles the situation sit-uation is regarded as serious and some quarters even represent it as desper-ate desper-ate but this extreme view is not gen- , rally held. Several of the committees met today I with the Italian members present and 1 the secretariat of the American delegation delega-tion said no notice had been received I of the withdrawal of Italian partici pation. But the departure of three of ! the Italian delegates and announcement announce-ment of the departure of Forelgu Mln ister Sonnino and former Minister Salandra, to occur Saturday, creates an anomalous situation as it is not known whether Italy will be repre- .spnfed at ihe nlennrv session of the conference Monday when parts ol the treaty, including the league of nations covenant, will be finally passed upon Dramatic Meeting With Wilson French reports represent the final meeting between President Wilson and Premier Orlando before the latter's departure as highly dramatic in character char-acter One version is that the Italian Ital-ian prime minister in addressing the American president, said "You have contested the authority of the Italian government before its people peo-ple and it is my duty to go before the representatives of the Italian people peo-ple and say to them. "Decide between Mr. Wilson and me.' " To this President Wilson Is represented repre-sented to have replied: "That is certainly your right." In American quarters it is said that the foregoing version of the Incident is probably a reflex of Premier Orlando's Orlan-do's public statement in which he referred re-ferred to the president appealing di-rectly di-rectly to the people. It is said that the chances of reach - ing an accord at the final meeting were good if Premier Orlando had remained a half hour longer. But the approach; of the time for the departure of his train and the feeling that he should consult the Italian people finally caus- j ed him to withdraw while the plan that might have brought about an J agreement was still under discussion.' The basi. of this presumptive accord a unM I.ivn hstrtr, ill, nn rl U I in. ternatlonalisatlon of Fiume, like Dan - zig. with the Jugo Slavs occupying the Dalmatian mainland and the Italians the outlying islands. Orlando Makes Personal Issue The territorial issue is now felt to be less Important than the personal' issue which the Italian premier has I raised by his plan for going before' parliament and asking a vote of confidence. con-fidence. Should this be given, it Is l bought probable n some quarters that it would renew the Italian issue before be-fore the council in a more pronounced form than either President Wilson or Ihe council as a whole has thus far been willing to admit. Should it not lie cien, the probable result would be abinet changes, bringing a new delegation, dele-gation, with a new polic to the conference. There are evidences that President .Wilson has avoided usin anything ! which might be construed as economical econom-ical pressure upon Italy, although some quarters have suggested this as an effective weapon. Secretary of the Treasury Glass has asked a credit of $50,000,000 for Italy and this request is now on the president's desk for final ii' ti imination. People Rename Street. ROME Friday. April 25. A deraon-stratlon deraon-stratlon today at Genoa in protest against President Wilson's attitude culminated in the changing of the 'name of the street that bad been named alter the American president j to "Flume street " PARIS. April 26.-Premier Orlando and hi8 colleague on the Italian delegation dele-gation to the peace conference will appeal' ap-peal' before the Italian parliament j ators and deputies from Lombardy sent a joint message today to Prem- i LH ier Orlando and Thomas Nelson Page, i y the American ambassador, saying that , they identified themselves with a Premier Orlando in defending Italy's prestige, while again expressing warm sympathy and friendship toward the H great American people." H |