On Monday the Italian Press published brief summaries of the
interview between Baron von Aehrenthal and Signor Tittoni. The meeting confirmed the most cordial sentiments between Italy and Austria-Hungary, and a complete agree- ment was reached, based on the principle of equilibrium and the maintenance of the status quo. The Times correspondent in Vienna reminds us that a similar meeting between an Austro-Hungarian statesman, Count Goluchowski, and King Humbert and his Ministers in 1897 resulted in the Albanian understanding. Both sides declared that they had no designs upon Albania, and the conversation led to the happy thought of embodying the declarations in an exchange of Notes. The Notes, besides committing both sides to a promise not to lay hands on Albania, pledged them to seek a solution of the Albanian question in autonomy in the event of the status quo in Turkey becoming impossible. Possibly the present interviews may lead to the Notes on that subject being promoted to the more dignified shape of a Convention. The problems of the Adriatic littoral have no doubt been dis- cussed; but as in the case of the Goluchowski interviews, the terms of any understanding may not become known for some time.
