The Washington herald., 1918-12-29
DRAFT OF PEACE TREATY
BASED ON WI SONS POINTS
Baherston Suggests Solution of Territorial
Questions World Congress Will Have
to Decide

la principle already in effect in the
/ United States.
4. The constitution OF an economic
| board to remove all restrictions
upon free trade between nations,
with the exception of tariffs applied
to all nations alike. This will be
the end of the most favored ma
ton" method of economic bargain
ing.
5. Strict supervision by govern
ments, IL not government owner
ship of all armament and explosive
| firms.
6. The establishment of interna-
| tional control for ports which can
not be owned by a single nation
without injustice to some other ma
tjon-these> ports include Constan-
tinople, Salonica,a Trieste, Danzig
and Ffume; possibly also 'interna-
tional control of navigation on the
Yistula, Rhine, Danube, Elbe and
Scheldt rivers.
Belgium to be Compensated.
This most important of peace aues-
tions will occupy the least time and
| be the cause of least trouble, for there
| is nb disagreement Belgium must be
compensated by Germany for every
building destroyed and every dollar
| exacted from her people during the
occupation. all machinery and goods
taken to Germany must be restored or
replaced, and the neutrality and COM
plete economic independence Of Bel
gium be guaranteed by the world.
Restore Alsaee-Lorraine.
Alsace-Lorraine, as those provinces
were constituted when torn from
| France by Germany in 1871, will be
restored TO the French Republic; a
| plebescite is improbable because Of
/ the difficulty of deciding who is en-
| titled to vote. Whether F'renchmen
who left before the war to get away
from the Germans should be included
| and, IL Germans who came into the
| country after 1871 should be excluded,
| are moot points which will be in
vaded by having no plebescite at all.
| 1t is not probable that the bound
4 aries Of Alsace-Lorraine will be en-
/ larged beyond the limits of 1870, al
/ though this has been discussed in
| France. The establishment of a neu-
! trail state comprising all territory not
\ in Alsace-Lorraine which lies to the
! left Of the Rhine though at one time
/ agreed upon between the French and
4
! be accepted by the Peace Conference,
because the population of these lands
! is German, and the principle of ma
[ tionality would be stretched to the
! breaking point If the proposed neutral
\ state were set up against the will Of
| the inhabitants.
Refund French Indemnity.
| Germany must pay France all OF
4 the indemnity exacted by Bismarck
( in 1871. but this contribution will
! probably be accepted not in money,
| but IN material, and perhaps in labor
| expended in reconstructing the ruined
! areas of the departments of the
! North. Whether Germany can be
/ called upon to make good all the
\ damage by the war on French soif is
| perhaps doubtful. But it is certain
that the conference will agree that
! wanton destruction such as marked
/ the retreat to the Hindenburg line IN
| the spring of 1917. with it's cutting
down of fruit trees, and destruction
4, of harvest villages miles behind the
| fighting front, must be paid for.
/ France will also receive Syria,
where her interests have long been
| greater than those of any other Eu-
/ ropean power. and where the popula-
| ton is anxious for French protection.
Italy to Get Territory.
| With the growth of the Wilson ideal
Italian strategic claims to territories
| not inhabited by Italians must lapse.
but the Peace Conference will accord
to Italy the Trentino, the possession
of the line of the Isonzo, including the
city of Gorilla. and probably half of
the Istrian Peninsula. Certain islands
and probably a naval base or two in
1 the Adriatic, with the harbor of Pola
where the Austrian fleet has remained
during the war. Will become Italian.