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Show I ALLIES CONFER ON EUROPEAN PROBLEMS wed STATES DECLINE TB IE - REPRESENTED Tliree or Four of Big Prob-i Prob-i . lems of Europe to Be Studied I , . - GERMANY LIKELY TO ! RECEIVE ATTENTION Future of Turk Empire Likely to Be Topic of Much Attention SAX REMO. Italy. April 17. Whether tho United Slatc3 would be represented at the conference ot the illicd nations called to meet in San rtemo was a question which had not been answered here as the chief representatives rep-resentatives of the powers gathered-here gathered-here today for the sessions which are to begin Monday. , The conference will have as Its program pro-gram and ondeavor to settle three or four of the great problems now disturbing dis-turbing Europe. One of these is what action shall be taken respecting the ! carrying oui of the treaty of Ver sailles so that It will be made plain - i to Germany that the allies regard it f. as a binding instrument. Others arc, . theVdetermlnation of the, future of the 'i ' Turkish empiro and the final framing . 0f the Hungarian peace treaty. The , ' Adriatic settlement and the intcrna- ... llonal exchange problem are also likc-J ' ; V toTjo gonsidei-cd. ' i .A United Stales Declines. j "WASHINGTON. April 17. At thci ' time of the first announcement thatj Wl the allied nations would hold a con-; JJ ference at San Romo, it was said at la the state department that tho United' fa States would not .be represented, and j gsr it Is understood that there has been & ; no change in this decision. Hi' x" D'Annun.io Ignored Now. 1! j F1UME, April 15. (By the Associ- 'EK. atcd Press.) Captain Gabricle d'An- jEm. nunzlo has been completely ignored by Ijl the Fiuman national council in the By. formulation of demands for a settle-j Elf. rnent of the future status of this city, i H& Delegates appointed by tho council ; H will meet Premier Nitti and carry on direct negotiations with the Italian) or government. fca . Hungnrian Bol3heviki have been r8 gathering here recently, some of them K being brought into the city in'Captaln d'Annunzio's motor cars. Government .Resigns. Wjr PRAGUE, April 15. Premier Vlas- It r' timll Tusar's government resigned yes- fML terday following a final session of the g L , assembly, which dissolved at C o'clock . R in the morning after a stormy sitting g ') lasting twenty-one hours. Tho resign I i' nation is generally considered to be I a result of the government's tempor-i S v izlng j)olicy regarding agrarian meaa-j i - urcs and land reforms, and discontent , &'. over its failure to begin negotiations! ; with soviet Russia. I jl Action on Currency. ' 'L PARIS. April 17. Representatives - V of the Latin ilonetary union, in ses- . ' sion here, have decided that hereafter jf French currency shall not be accept- fx cd in any of the countries that are members of the union, .ind their currency cur-rency shall not be legal tender in ' France. The decision was reached j ? Cor '.the purposo of helping to relieve , Jv. the exchange situation, j i r Town is Doric ... COPENHAGEN, April 17. Reports' jr from Oppeln, upper Sllosla, say the $j town la without water or light because $ : '. of a strike- of workmen in protest a .. against the French occupation, in au- auS vance of the plebiscite in this district, ip , The messages allege the occupying I '' . troops are arresting and ill-treating numbers of citizens. ' A general strike throughout upper ' tl, Silesia is threatened, tho advices add. ' ; No Standing Army. Y MOSCOW, April C. (By tho Asao- I elated Press.) The abolition of thej v standing army of soviet Russia and m tho Inauguration of a system of universal uni-versal military training through mili- Jj tla formations was advocated by Leon) Ttrozky, tho minister of war. in "a' j& speech to the communist convention1 ,V' whlQh lias just ended It's sessions here. "-L' The third convention of the Rus- . y sian trades' union was opened today A by Chairman Tomsk!, b ' oo |