PEACE MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 131, 5 June 1919, Page 8

PEACE MATTERS

Though it is premature to say that the Fiume difficulty has been completely settled, there is very good reason to assume that the Adriatic problem is Hearing a solution on lines creating a. little republic at Fiume, but excluding Sarak, 'which belongs to Jugo-Slavia. Fiume and its hinterland will probably be administered by a Council of Five, composed of two Italian members, one Croat, one Jugo-Slav, and one Hungarian. It is understood that the Italians will surrender their Dalmatian claims except to Zara and Sebenico. Italy also retains strategic islands guarding the Bay of Fiume'. From an American source it is learned that America has definitely declined the mandate for Constantinople. As Britain and France would not accept it, there is a possibility of Italy receiving the mandate.

GERMAN PROPOSALS

THE ADRIATIC PROBLEM

.A DELAYED MESSAGE.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COP-RICUT.I

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received June S, 1.30 p.m.)

PARIS, 30th May (delayed).

Count .Rantza.il, iv a covering letter to the Conference expresses his willingness to accept an army of a hundred thousand, but desires Germany to become an immediate member of the League of Nations. He also suggests the pooling of merchant shipping under the control of the League. He requests a free plebiscite for Alsace-Lorraine, is prepared to surrender Poseu, and is willing that Dantzig, Koenigsberg, and Memel shall become free ports.

Two fresh German Notes have been received, one dealing with German properties in Allied countries and the other in regard to the Turkish public debt and the German possessions in San Paolo, Bra_il.