Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1920 — REPLY SENT TO ALLIES [ARTICLE]

REPLY SENT TO ALLIES

PRESIDENT WRITES ANSWER ON ADRIATIC (N RECORD TIME. No Indicator! Given Opt as to the Note’s Contents or Its Length. Washington, Feb. 20. —President Wilson yesterday completed his reply to the allied supreme council’s note on the Adriatic question and sent It to Acting Secretary Polk, who has put it in form for transmittal to the council. There was no Indication as to the note’s contents or Its length. The president begun drafting It early In the morning and completed it In two hours. The council’s communication Was received only Wednesday, and the speed with which this reply was prepared here was said to constitute something of n record. The president went to his study at 9:30 a. m„ and, summoning his stenographer,' immediately began dictating the reply. He was understood to have answered the coudcH's contention point for point and to have adhered to the position taken in his note of February 10. It Is pretty well established that In that communication the preseldent 'lnformed the allied countries that if they proceeded to a settlement of the Adriatic question without the consent and participation of the American government the United States might have to decide whether It could become a party to the treaty of Versailles and the Anglo-French-Amerlca compact.