Arizona republican., 1918-11-25
BARS hND FREE SEAS
 VITAL FACTORS
Compensatory Damages AL
 so Enter Into Treaty President Wilson's Points Also To Be Cralified

PARIS. Nov. 29, Saturday-(By the Associated Press .)-Premier Clemen- ceau's intended visit to London, early in December, doubtlessly will give him an opportunity to discuss number of the more important issues, to come before the inter-allied conference and the peace congress, with Premier Lloyd George, A. J. Balfour, the Brit ish foreign secretary, and other Brit ish leaders who are detained in Eng land by the election campaign.
 The economic questions are assum- ing a marked prominence since the announcement that an American par ty, including a large staff of economic and shipping experts, was coming to Paris and the presence on this side of the Atlantic of Edward \. Hurley and other American economic and shipping authorities.
 The main discussions appear to cen ter around President Wilson's third point, which was accepted without res ervation by the allies, providing for the removal, so far as possible, of all eco homie barriers. Previous to this the allied economic congress held in Paris two years ago, provided for the eco- homie boycott against the central powers, for five years after the con clusion of the war, and for special trade facilities between the allied countries, their colonies and neutrals. This preceded America'S entrance into the war and the United States did not subscribe to the proposed restrictions. Little has been heard since that time about putting into effect the decision of the economic congress, and the ac- ceptance of President Wilson's third point by the allies, appears to substi- tute the principle of the removal of economic barriers for the previous one of exclusion.
 To Discuss Sea Freedom
 The growth of American shipping during the war is another economic question which is being discussed widely. Some newspapers take the view that it will present questions of adopting Americas higher standard of wages to seamen, and of giving Amer ica its proportion, of the worlds carry ing trade. How far such questions will come before the congress are not clear, but Premier Clemenceau's at titude toward the labor delegates who visited him yesterday concerning a labor meeting, simultaneously with 1hO pNoNC NOii6 Coos itddS u tllt Dtlltl that they will have as much promi- - hence in the conference as political and territorial questions.
 Freedom of the seas and compensa . tion by Germany for all damages sui fered by the allies are two questions for further discussion and determina . ton.
 Concerning freedom of the seas. the tendency in American quarters is to obtain change in the present inter | national practice by which belligerents have virtually taken control of the 1 sea going traffic on the outbreak of the war as it is maintained that the neutrals would be the ones to profit by | keeping out of war and leaving their ocean shipping to move without inter- ference from the belligerents. But as | this neutral shipping might be used | to carry ammunition and other war | supplies, it is said, that some voluntary | agreement would be necessary, pledg, | ing all nations not to furnish war SUD- l plies to countries going to war. This in turn would require an international 1 sea patrol and the right of search al | sea. While these phases are being | discussed, they are so complex that nc | decisions are likely for some time. l Other points involved under the gen l eral head of freedom of the seas are the removal of all restrictions iron l free passage through such waterway. as the Cattegat, between the Nortl | and Baltic sea; the Dardanelles anC Bosphorus, between the Mediterranean and Black seas, and all straits exceed ing one marine league which connec with the high seas. The restriction against planting mine fields such a. those across the North sea betweeI ! Norway and Scotland and barrages il the Dover channel are further point! of discussion under this general topic
 Damages Important Issues
 The second reserved point of the al lies-Germany to give compensatio, for all damages-appears generally t
 be accepted in principle, leaving onl, the question of the amount of claim
 by the various allies to be settled
 Nonofficial estimates place the F'renc1
 damages as upward of three hundre, and forty billion francs, including tn
 return of the war indemnity paid Ger
 many in 1871 with interest, and ex
 penses and property losses during tn
 present war.
 The British claims will concerl
 largely shipping losses and war ex
 penses Serbia, Belgium and Ital
 had large property losses.
 Whether AmericaS war expense
 known. In some quarters it is hel will be presented as a claim is no that the precedents established in tn
 Boxer indemnity and in the Spanis
 war probably will prevail.
 Outside of these reserve points, tn
 main duties of the conference and tn
 congress will be in giving treaty forr
 and effect to President Wilson's four
 teen points which the allied govern
 ments and the central powers bot
 have accepted as the basis of agree
 ment.
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