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PRESIDENT TAKES STAND TO AVERT NEW CONFLICT
BOND-TAX VOTE TO BE BIG
With a record registration for a
bond election, 15.481, Atlanta voters
started to the polls early Wednesday
to say whether or not a bond issue of
$1,000,000 shall be authorized, and
whether the city ad valorem tax rate
of $1.25 per SIOO will stand, or be in
creased to $1.50 to allow the Board
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of Kducation to improve the schools.
Indications at 2 o'clock were that
more than 8,000 votes had been cast
and that the total would go well over
10,000 before the polls closed at 7
o'clock. This Would represent the
record vote in any municipal election.
ity officials were pleased at the heavy
voting and expressed the belief that
the outpouring of voters meant the
success of the bonds and tax increase.
Mavor Key issued a statement urg
ing the voters to come to the polls
and express their sentiments, whether
for ¢r ggainst the issues at stake,
While calilng attention to the grave
danger should either of the issues
fail, the Mayor expressed confidence
that both the bonds and taxes would
rece’ve ghe indorsement of the ma
jority of Atlanta voters.
Concern was expressed by W. H.
Terrell, member of the Board of Kd
ucation from the First District, that
opposition of negroes to the tax in
crease would defeat the project. The
defeat of the increase at the first
election was laid to this quarter.
: Terreli First to Vote.
“1 was the first person in the First
Ward to cast 'a vote for the bonds
and tax increase,” said Mr. Terrell
“While. 1 was at the polling place
t: enty other voters came, most of
them negroes. The latter voted,
without exception, against the tax in
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“The negroes carried in several
instances, marked ballots. In other
cdases they voted without hesitatidn,
If this start is pursued, the $1.50 tax
is killed as far as the First Wara 1s
conce ned It is up to progressive
cttzens all ovq: Atlanta to rally to
the cause of schools and vote for the
increase The negroes seem to be
satisfied with conditions.”
The bond election decides the pro
posed issuance of SSOOOOO in bonds
.{nr mprovements at the \\'auvrwm‘.ku.
noluding pumps, a new coagulating
buasin and additional reservoir space;
s£loo,ooo for the erection of a suitable
building to house the historic picture
of the Battle of Atlanta, now in a
frame building at Grant Park: SIOO,-
000 for the motorization of the At
lanta fire department, and $300,000 for
an ejectric generating plant at the
city erematory, to enable the city to
utilize 2,000 horsepower of steam now
gcing to waste at an annual loss esti
mated at $50,000,
Schools Would Benefit.
The proposed tax increase would
previde an additionm revenue of ap
' pro¥imately $500,000 for the city gov
ernment, but tie school Jdepartment
i« t¢c be the main heneficiary if the
issue carries,
The Board of Education will be
given an increase of $250.060 per year,
with which it is intended to give the
teachers ¢n increase in salaries, to
erect new buildings and to improve
conditions generally,
For the bond issue to carry there
must be apgroximately %000 votes in
favor of the issue, The State law
governing hond issues provides that a
propased issue must have a two
thirds majority of those voting, this
twu-thirds to constitute a majority
of the régist=ation, The estimat: cf
gome members of the city’s campa ¢n
committee that there will be 2,000
votas agamst the bonds meams that
10,000 voters must visit the polls,
which is 1,600 more than voted at
the mayoralty ecampaign last vear,
when the city was seething with a
hot campaign.
The hope of the city’'s committee is
that through proper civie interest on
the part of Atlanta citizens, and the
work of, a large number of girls, who
will usefthe telephone all day, a suf
ficient fumber of veters will be drawn
to the Jolls. If only 7,000 votes are
enst ¢4d all of them are for the
bondsf they will be defeated,
A AR AR A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A NAALD
THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Fair Wednesday night
and Thursday.
Temperatures—6 4+ m,, .60; 8
a. m, 66; 10 a. m,, 71; 12 noon, 77;
1p m,81; 2 p.m, 84
Sunrise, 5:57. Sunset, 7:15,
Full International News Service
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By HARVE WESTGATE. ¢
% HE nations that would rule ¢
I the world (at least, it so ap- |
$ pears to me) are clutching ¢
g at each other's throats, for some- ¢
how they can not agree; Old John- !
g ny Bull gets out his club, and lheq !
Old Rome goes tearing loose, un- g
é til it looks to me, by gum, as if }
they’d kill the Golden Goose. While )
cannon roared and war was on, |
2 the nations helped each other out, §
{ and when the Teutons came iné
; view they massed their men and g
; won each bout; but now that !
) peace is in the air and they have
$ cinched each bloody fray, the vic
tors fight among themselves, and
. pull some rough stuff every day.
; The voters will decide, by jings,
5 just what Atlanta's going to do;
§ they're going to show us where
gwe‘re at, and what this burg is
5 coming to; they'll vote some cash
¢ for decent schools (if I can read
g the signs aright), dbut if they fail
§ they'll rue the day and leave us in
{ an awful plight. And now the wire
\ men of the land are going to drop
§ their keys and quit, and show to
{ Mr. Bur-le-son they've got a kick
( within their mit; but if they gtrike
; I'll lose my job, and pine away and
{ get the blues, because, you see, 1 S
¢ could not get a single line of jingle )
{ news. é
B A AR PR AR
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, April 12.—The Bavarian
Red army is now reported to be com
manded by two former officers in the
German army-—Baron Seller and the
Prince of Wied, said a dispatch from
Zurich to The Petit Journmal today.
(By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, April 23.—Czecho-
Slovak treoops invading Humgary are
moving swiftly upon the capital, and
at latest advices from Vienna were
but one hour's march from Budapest.
The Czecho-Slovaks have reached
Veiocksen, i .
Troops of Four Nations
o ' .
Fighting Hungarian Reds
(By International, News Service.)
GENEVA, April 213.AA(‘zecho-Slnva.k
and Serbian troops have begun to
advance into Hungary, it was reporte
ed from Vienna today.
Troops of four nationalities are now
fighting the Hungarian reds, Rouma
nians, Poles, Serbians and Czecho-
Slovaks. .
Many Persons Killed
In Hamburg Rioting
(By International News Service.)
BERLIN, April %22 (via London,
April 23).—~Many persons have been
killed in rioting that has been raging
at Hamburg since Sunday, said a
dispatch from that ecity today. Many
buildings op the harbor front were
plundered. Most of the casualties
resulted from flghting between the
police and mobs in the suburbs,
Siberian Army Routs
Bolshevik Troops
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, April 23.—Admiral Kol
chak's anti-Bolshevik army has in
flicted another crushing defeat on the
Bolshevik forces, capturing 25,000
prisoners, said a news agency dis
patch from Omsk today. Izhevsk was
taken.
Much booty was captured from the
reds, who fled, panic-stricken, before
the advance of the victorious Sibe
rian army.
The Siberians have advanced 50
miles in the direction of the impor
tant and strategic city of Hr.Pn):urg.
Hungarian Reds Willing
To Confer With Allies
(By International News Service,)
LONDON, April 23-—Hungarian
Soviet Minister Bolgar has arrived in
Vienna on a special mission and noti
fied Colonel Cuninghame, the Allied
representative, that the Budapest
Government is wililng to continue ne
gotiations with General Smuts, sald
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Vienna this afternoon. 4
The Hungarian minister asked that
the Allies’ desires in the matter be
communicated to him,
General Smuts was sent to Buda
pest shortly after the red dictalor
ship was proclaimed to look after
Allied interests.
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The great monument to the Con
federate dead, planned for years by
the United Daughters of the Confed
eracy as the most fitting memorial to
the memory of the heroic men who
fought under the Stars and Bars, is
to be made a monument to all South
ern heroes who fought in the Amer
ican wars from the Revolution to the
great world war,
This decision was reached Wed
nesday morning at a meeting of the
Stone Mountain Confederate Memo
rial Association at the Hotel Ans
ley. The suggestion to change the
plan came from Mrs. James W. Roun
saville, of Rome, 'who has been elect
ed president of the association. The
action was regarded as a manifes
tation of the wave of nationalism
ithat swept the country at the out
break of the world war and wiped out
all sectionalism within the United
States.
The entire mountain is to be built
into one grand monument under the
direction of Gutzon Borglum, the fa
mous sculptor, who originated the
idea. While the monument as a
whole is to be in honor of the South
ern men who died in all wars, the
great central figure of the creation
will be the monument to the Con
federate dead.
Those at Meeting
The meeting Wednesday was at
tended by Gutzon Borglum, Mrs. H.
M. Franklin, State president of the U.
D. C.; Mrs. J. E. Hays, vice presi
dent of the Georgia Federation of
Women's C'lubs; Mrs. Frank Harrold,
vice president of Georgia U. D. C.;
Mrs. Z. 1. Fitzpatrick, ehairman of
Georgia Woman’'s Liberty Loan Com
mittee: Mrs. J. O, Wynn, Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Willet, Hon. Hooper Alex
ander, Mrs. James Rounsaville, of
Rome: Mrs. W. E. Hays, of Mon
tezuma: Miss Alice Baxter, Mrs. A.
MeD. Wilson, Mrs. T. T. Stevens,
Mrs. Jjames R, Mobley, Mrs. W. S.
Coleman, Mrs. Will Percy, Hon. Wil
liam Terrell, Will Plane, Mrs. Helen
Plane, Mrs FPrark Mason, Mrs. Staf
ford Sideil, Mrs Wylie and others.
The foi'ow:'ng officers of the asso
clation were elected Wednesday:
Officers Elected. |
President, Mrs. James W. Rounsa
ville, of Rome: vice presidents, Miss
Alice Baxter, Mrs. T. T. Stevens, Mrs
Samuel Inman, Mrs, J. E. Hays, Mrs.
R. P. Stephens: recording secretary,
Mrs. Lollie Bell Wylie: corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Stafford Sidell; his
torian, Dr. Lucian Lamar Knight; |
treasurer, Mrs. James W, Bedell. |
The State lLegislature passed a res-.
olution two years ago making May 20
Stone Mountain Memorial day, when;
collections were to be taken through
out the South for the monument. The
Governor will not be asked to pro
claim the special day this vear on ae
count of war conditions, but Mayv 20
next year will be set aside for this!|
purpose, ‘
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' Wednesday Night |
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¢ The Dbeautiful custom of )
giving an hour every |
Wednesday night to a serv- /‘
ice of prayer is of such long §
standing that it i&¢ second ¢
( nature to think of Prayer ¢
; meeting in connection with
g Wednesday unight 1‘
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If you have le: this fact es
cape your min remember {
it tonight when he hour ar
tives and come anl enjoy
2 the benefits which sves an
hour confers Youi wiil be
g mosgt heastily welromed and ()
{ vou will feel very much at §
) home in any of Atlanta’'s )
! good churches They invite ¢
{ vou through this printed ¢
word
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Their Sunday programs may be
found in The saturda_'y Georgian ¢
! under the heading “Go To Church,"
You are al®o invited to attend
) their Sunday services.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1919
l “Aida,” Verdi's colorful, magnifi
cently spectacular Oriental opera,
though being presented for the fourth
time in Atlanta, bids fair to draw an
audience Wednesday night which will
equal that of the opening. For “Aida”
has néver lost its charm. Thousands
have heard it again and again; it
holds the record for number of per
formances in New York.
Atlantans familiar with “Aida” will
find especial intergst in the fact that
an entirely new cast is to appear, not
one of the principal singers ever hav
ing sung in the work in an Atlanta
lperrormaca Several singers who have
never before appeared in this city
are in the cast.
Hipolito Lazaro, the Spanish tenor,
will sing Rhadames, the part former
ly taken here by Caruso and Marti
nelli. There should be a great mo
meni in the first five minutgg of this.
opera, which late-comers \(0*'!1 miss,
when Lazaro sings the famous “Ce
leste Aida.” The new tenor ;t espe-~
cially noted for the beauty and clari
ty of his high tones-—ne takes a high
E flat with perfect ease, it is said,
and “Aida” will give him excellent
opportunity.
Margarete Matzenauer, one of the
best contraltos who ever has been on
the Metropolitan list, also is making
her Atlanta debut in “Aida,” singing
Lthe role of Amneris, second only to
Ihe title role in prominence. The part
has been sung here by Homer and
‘()her.
The Aida will be Claudia Muzio,
the soprano who made her debut two
years ago and sang here in “Trova
‘lorv“ and “Toseca.” Mme, Muzio has
a powerful and beautiful voice, and
her dramatic interpretation of Tosca
two years ago gives assurance that
her Aida will be wel done,
Thomas Chalmers will be the bari
tone of the evening, singing Amonas
ro, the Ethiopian king, Mr. Chalmers,
an American, sang here several years
ago with the Boston Opera Company.
Jose Mardones, the basso who mada
such an excellent impression on Mon
day night, will be the High Priest,
Ramfis, in “Aida.” Marie Sundelins
is cast for the brief but trying part
of the priestess. Roberto Moranzoni
will conduct. ‘
There was widespread regret at the
Georgian Terrace just before noon
Wednesday when Rosina Galli and
her mother emerged from their rooms
and announced they were departing
for New York. Miss Galli, as pretty
as anyone could well be and live, had
become ill Tuesday, and was not suf
ficiently recovered to danee in "Anl.«"}
Wednesday night. But she refused to
bid anyone good-bye. It was only
“Au revoir, she said, for she will
come back next season, she insisted,
and take pains to be very well in
deed. |
But Miss @Galli's absence, it was‘
said, will not totally spoil the ballet
in “Aida,” for there are geveral scenes
where incidental dances are lntro-‘
dm'ed,~md in which the premier
danseuse is not altogether necessary.
Audience Sways to
Music by Faust
BY DUDLEY GLASS.
An audience not so large as that
of the opening night, but still almost
filling the big Auditorium, swayed
to the rippling measures of the ker
messe waltzes and the stirring beat
of the soldiers’ chorus in Gounod’'s
“Faust” Tuesday afternoon, the okl
opera's second presentation in Atlan
ta. It is a beautiful opera, with its
succession of choruses, duets, trios
and solo arias, and it was beautifully
sung.
Frances Alda, the Marguerite; Mar
tinelli, the Faust, and Leon Rothier,
the Mephisto, shared the honors of
the afternoon with the chorus. Le
nora Sparks sang the mezzo role
of Siebel very well, indeed. Thomas
Chalmers, as Valentine, was plainly
not at his best, though his naturally
fine baritone rang out well in the
trio preceding his death scene,
Mme. Alda was heard for the first
time as Marguerite, and when it is’
said that she sang the role with the
same crystal elear tones and 'hc-‘
same artistry she gave us as Desde
mona, as Mimi and as I~'rmn't-sva.]
nothing more is needed. The jewel
song sparkled anew as she sang xt‘
and the delicate prigson scene, heart
breaking in its pathos, was given
every possible beauty ‘
Mr. Martinelli made a handsome
figure as Faust, and his singing of
the “salut demeure” at the opeinng
:‘f' the garden scene was splendidly
one ‘
Mr, Rothier, ag Mephigto, was given |
the hest opportunity which has fallen
to hix veteran basgo in his many seua -
sons in Atlanta., He sang with pow
er and sonority, giving the devil his
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BEAUTY MARKS CAST |
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Two of the most strikingly handsome women of the Metropolitan are to sing Wednesdayg
evening in ‘‘Aida.’’ They are: Marguerite Matzenauer (above) and Claudia Muzio, singing, re‘é
spectively, ‘‘Amneris’’ and ‘‘Aida. *’
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. Complete details of the Memorial
Day parade and services to be held
April 26 were made public Wednes
day in a series of general orders is
sued by Grand Marshal Osear Pal
mour, lieutenant colonel, U, 8. A., re
tired, who was appointed by the La
dies’ Memorial Association of Ate
lanta, to have ‘charge of the parade,
Coionel Palmour announced the ap-|
pointments of the following officers:
Chief of staff, Major Robert Trout- |
man; aides, KEnsign Jesse Draper,
Captain Basil Stockbridge, Lieutenant
Marion Smith, Lieutenant 8. D, Hm_\'.‘
Ensign Henry Newman, Lieutenant |
Brooke Mell, Lieutenant Frank Car
ter, Captain John J. Rogers, Lieuten
ant John Hardisty, Ensign Horace
Holleman, Ensign Emory Cooke, Kn
sign Sanders Hickey, Lieutenant
Clyde M. Wood, Major Trammell
Scott, Lieutenant Hilliard Spalding,
Ensign Kugene Black. To be division
commanders: First division, Mauajor
George W. Teachout, Forty-fifth In-‘
fantry, U, S. A.; second divisiony Bri
gadier General William N, Crane, lt.‘
0. T. C.; third division, Colonel John
S. Prather; fourth division, Colonel
E. E. Pomeroy, ‘
The parade will be formed on
Peachtree, at the junction of West
Peachtree, at 1:30 p. m. Saturday,
and will march at 2,p. m. The line
of march will extend down Peachtree
Whitehall, out Hunter to Oakland
Cemetery, where the parade will he
dismissed,
At the cemetery salute will be fired
by the cadets of Fulton High uyui‘
taps sounded by a musician from the
Forty-fifth Infantry. The Rev. T, R |
Kendall wiil make the ”I\'lH‘llllilli
The orator of the day, Dr. J. E. Olm
stead, will be introduced h'.‘rhv- grand
malshal. Thera will be special musie
for the occasion by Wedemeyer's
Band. l
The parade will be led by (hies
James L. Beavers, with a platoon of
mounted police, and will be composed |
of Confederate veterans from r-ughtl
camps, soldiers, sallors, marines, |
Spanish-American war veterans :nul’
members of the various women's war
organizations, ‘
full due, and unlike the villain of the
melodramas, shared in the applause, |
But, after all, it is the concerted |
numbers which make “Faust" the fa
vorite it is And there has rarely
been heard here anything better done
than the quartet in the garden scene, |
the trio of tenoyp, baritone and basgso ‘
and the great prison scene trio at the
end. And I can not recall anything |
lovelier than the succkssion of love
duets which Alda and Martinelli sang
in Marguerite's garden
The program was cut short and a
great deal of disappointment caused
by Willidim ,J. Guurd's announ: cment
from the stage that there would be
no ballet, as ‘Mme, Galli had suddenly |
become {ll, ) !
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the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of Mar oh 3, 187
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Work on the new "$125,000 apart
ment house at Nos. 683-68%5-687-659
Peachtree street, to he owned hy £,
C. McGehee, will be started Thursday
by the Mackle Construction Com
pany. The building will be one of the
largest and most valuable in the ity |
!lt will be constructed of brick and
stone, and there will be a restaurant
in the basement. Oflicials of the con
struction’ company estimtae the work
will be rnished October 1,
The City Building Inspector issued
a 4 permit for the work Wednesdays
morning.
Other permits lgsuedgwere as fol
lows
One-story brick and concrete ad
dition on Whitehall street “building,
Maier & Berkele, owners: A V. ]
Gude & ‘o, contractors, A. Ten li,‘v-hl
Brown, architect, to cost $6.500, l
Two-story fame apartment house
at Nos. 24-26-28 Lyons avenue: B. J, |
Davis, owner; *Alex D, Hamilton &
Son, builders: to cost SIO.OOO (
Repairs at No, 180 Whitehall strect
| Breitenbucher estate, owners, to cost |
$4.000 '
’ Other building activities were di
closed by W, D, Beatie, who will b«
l";.l, ne Xt onday the copstruction
a #x-room house on Stewart nite
He will soon c¢omplete a five-room
house on Cochran street and a l
rovm house on Dell uvenue, |
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_EDITION ]
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, April 23 IKleven
more transports, bringing 24,000 officers
and men back to America, have sailed
from French ports, the War Depart
ment announced Weadnesday afternoon.
They are The Sofla, with 1,200 troops
sailed for New York on April 20; the
battleship Nebraska, with 1,215, from
Brest, due at Newport News May 3;
the BSt. Louis, 1,427, due at New York
Mu b Agamemnon, 814, due at New
Yorl Aprd 29; the Canadaigua. with
1,808, due New York May 2; Generai
Goetha 1,417, due at New York May
1; the Susquehanna, 2,655, due at New
port News May 1; the lLoulsville, 2.33%
officers and 'men, 64 soldiers’ wives and
nine ' children, ten wlors’ wives and
three children, due at New York April
0, the Pustores, 2,117, due at Newport
Newsg May 1, the Mallory, 2,062, due at
New York May 1; the America, with
'74 viled April 21 for New York
On the Sofia are bakery companies
§2¢ nd 306, 405th telegraph battalion
upply and medical sections, headguar
' apany, Companies D and E,
Camps Dodge Travie and scattered;
16051 1 Ny pontoon train, Camp
[ix h quarier company, First
orp unit iin, scattered; 161st
1 SIPANY 1618 t fleld hos
) bulance company, 162 d
! i f3d ambulance company,
{ | z 163 d 1 hospital, Camp
i wsual compa from Tennes
¢ wid S t 1w it
' Nel ka is bringing the head
¢ ' My n nedical de
( ‘o il A Lo D, and de
tachment f Company K of the 114th
Engineers, mostly for Camps Pike,
mßhelby and Sherman,
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(By International News Service.)
PARIS, April 23-—President Wik
son issued an official statement today
insisting that Fiume be internation- "
alized and made a free port instead
of being given either to Italy or Jugo-
Slavia.
The President repudiated the pact
of London on which the Italians Lave’
been mainly basing their demands,
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, April 23.—<The Japanese
delegates have resolved to withdraw
from the peace conference if their de
mand, for Kiao Chau is not satisfied
before the Germans arrive at Ver
sailles, according to an Exchange Tel
egraph dispatch from Paris today,
The f’.flipanme, say the correspondent, -
are insisting on an immediate deci
sion,
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By ROBERT J. PREW,
Staff Corrgspondent of the I, N.\B.
PARIS, April 23. —-Revolution will
jswm‘p Italy, accompanied by Bol
shevism and the collapse of thes pres
ent Ministry at Rome, if the Italian
delegates are forced to return to
Rome with the decision that Fiume
is going to Jugo-Slavia instead of
Italy, according to a prediction made
today by Dr, Scarfolgio, editor of thg
newspaper Mattino, of Naples.
“Fiume has a total population of
32,000, of whom 27,000 are Italians,”
sald the editor.
“The other 5,000 are mostly Croates,
We must firmly decline to leave the
fate of the Italians to the Jugo-
Slavs, We were prepared to make
the port free, giving the Jugo-Slavs
equal shipping rights, but we can not
agree that either the city or the port
be placed under Jugo-Slav rule.
Greed Is Charged.
“The splendid harbor works were
built by the Italians and the secret
of the whole fight is the Jugo-Slavs
desire to seize a ready-made harbor
and save themselves the trouble of
improving one. There are fourteen
Adriatic ports we are willing to leav o
in the possession of the Jugo-Slavs.
“Italian public opinion I 8 emphat
ically hostile te any arrangement
which would leave the Serbians and
Croatians the slightest vestige of au- é
thority at Filume. If the delegates do
not agree to any decision this weel,
our delegates probably will go home
and explain to the people they were
unable to, gain satisfaction regard
ing their aßpirations. If Premier H‘-
land o and Baron Sonnino return te
Rome with this answer, or an un
satisfactory compromise, the Governe
ment will fall and the country very
likely will be plunged into revolution.
Unless the conference promptly ree
ognizes .the force of public opinton,
this question will force Bolshevism
into Italy. Hitherto we were con
fident this would not happen, but it
it does the movement may aspread
rapidly and inerease the danger
threatening the whole of Europe,”
Clemenceau Has a Word,
Premier Clemenceau regards the
Fiume problem as one of the most
acute the conference has taken up.
Discussing it after a conference w (\h
Premier Lloyd George and Premide
Orlando, he said
“Fiume is a harder question to Sot
tle than the Saar Valley. Maybe the
people will now recognize that we
French are not so unreasonable after
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v“,‘l.w;y in's territorial demands in China
are proving nearly as vexing as the
Itallan demand for Fiume. The Chie
nese have lodged a long petition with
the peace conferencer asking that the
Japanese be forced to turn back Kiae
Chau and the railroads occupied Ifter
the Germans were driven. from the,
region .
Teh Italian Jugo-Slav dispute over
Fiaume=is constantly getting graver,
The Matin stated today in digscussing
this momentous problem. The French
press I 8 unanimous in pointing out
the sgeriousness of this matters ard
its posstbilitie. "It Is imponeibls 18
exazgerate the importance of Pres
micr Oriando’s withdrawal from the