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Show ITALIAN CRISIS SERIOUS MATTER German Intention to Send Delegates Without Powers Overshadowed by Adriatic Adri-atic Dispute. Paris;, prii 21 (Bj The At ocl il cd Press.) The Italian crisis In '.he negotiations with Italy has obscure I for the moment the Incident over the German delegation m Versailles in which the Germans announced thai they were sending delegates without plenipotentiary powers and tbe council coun-cil of four promptly repliod requiring delegates with full powers to sign the peace treaty, This Incident was variously var-iously interpreted, the French and British view being that It was another an-other effort to delay the settlement and to pave the way for a refusal 10 !ign the treaty The view taken by the American delegation of the incident, inci-dent, however, was less serious, it being be-ing believed that the Germans would promptly accede to the allied rsQut I and send the proper plcnlpoioniiaries. "They will do about anything W0 want them to do," said one of the American delegates today. "And if we want plenipotentiaries they will send them." There was little doubt that the al'ie i military and naval authorities had Taken Tak-en measures to meet the possible: emergency of a failure to sign the trcatv though it was said these tncas ures were purely precautionary and without any expectation that there would be occasion to put them Into operation. |