LONDON, PACT OF

On April 26, 1915, on the eve of Italy’s entrance into the World War, an agreement was signed at London between Great Britain, France, Ru ia, and Italy, the most important conditions of which were that, under the treaty of peace with the Central Empires, Italy should obtain the Trentino, Cisalpine Tyrol with the Brenner frontier, as well as Trieste, the counties of Gorizia and Gradisca, all Istria as far as the Quarnero and the neighboring islands, the greater part of Dalmatia, and the Bay of Valona. In return, Italy was bound not to oppose the division of N. and S., Albania between Monte negro, Serbia, and Greece. She was also given the sovereignty of the Dodekanese Islands, and was promised 2 share of the Mediterranean region adjacent to Adalia in the event of the partition of Turkey, as well as the rights and privileges belonging to the sultain ir Libya. Great Britain undertook to make a loan to Italy of at least $250,000,000 and Italy was to get a share of any wai indemnity exacted from the Centra Powers. Finally, it was stipulated tha’ the agreement should be kept secret Its terms were divulged by the Bolshevil Government of Ru ia, and were sub sequently published by the Brit. Govern pee April 30, 1920. See Fromm anc T. LY.