ITALY AND THE ADRIATIC.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 January 1919, Page 6

ITALY AND THE ADRIATIC.

aftermath of secret treaty LONDON, January 14. The Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent says other more important interests are also at stake. A secret treaty in April, 1915, promised Italj nearly all her demands, including as a reward for entering the war, portion of Dalmatia, the Adriatic islands, and the Gulf of Yalona. xt ■was an old fashioned bargain made at a time when Italy’s intervention promised to be the decisive factor in winning the war; but the rise of Jugo Slavism and the importance of President tWlilson’-s yfiews now (give (a differennt outlook to the position. The matter can be arranged ’vitb goodwill, (but Dissolati’s resignation suggests that Baron Sonnino still clings to the secret treaty.

AUSTRIA’S DESPERATE STATE. PARIS, January 15The rAllies’ economic mission considers that Austria is doomed to complete dissolution unless early assistance is afforded. She not only wants food, but political guidance, REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL. MADRID, January 14. Postal communication with Portugal is interrupted, but frontier reports state that a revolution is being carried on, chiefly by troops returning from France with the object of replacing the Government by supporters of exPresidcnt Machado.