Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-02-07
DESIRES Of VARIOUS
NATIONS OUTLINED
DELEGATES OF FIVE GREAT POW.
ERs COMPARE ASPIRATIONS
WITH THOSE OF FRIENDS.
Problem Shows Many Mixed Phases,
but It Is Evident Heavy lndemnIties
Will Be Demanded and a plVi-
sion Of Territory Expected.

Paris.-The delegates of the five
great powers are now in position to
compare clearly their own aspirations
and those Of all their alned friends
and to see the differences that must
be reconciled. The maximum of hopes,
often overlapping, has been told freely
and IL remains for the peace confer
ence to adjust them into E co-ordInated
whole.
France wants, first OF all, Alsace-
Lorraine Internationally, and the right
to discuss and ultimately to fix the
French frontiers In their relation to
. the Rhine, which may require the Gre
alton of buffer states. One of these
would be the Palatinate and another
Rhenish Prussia. France also desires
to annex the basin of the Sarre river,
which might be called remuneration.
France will insist that, SO far as the
left bank Of the Rhine further to the
north is concerned, the conference
should forbid military works of any
kind-5arracks, bridgeheads, forts and
fortresses- that zone. The feeling
Is that the people inhabiting that zone
should be free to decide for themselves
whether they wish to join France,
FORM an independent state, or return
to Germany.
The French bill for PREPARATION Is not
yet complete, but 1t has been an
nounced in the chamber of deputies
that it will be about 66,OOO,000,OO0
francs.
Great Britain's delegation believes
that society of nations is desirable
and obtainable and that 1t must be
established by the present~peace cong
ference. She advances no continental
purposes other than those of a perma-
nent and just peace under the .prin-
ciple of self-determinatlon and that
there shall be international freedom
of transit by railroads and waterways,
which is Great Britain's general def
milton of freedom Of commerce in
times of peace.
Great Britain viii take mandatory
power over the German islands south
of the equator for Australia and over
German Southwest Africa for the
Union of South Africa. She will also
have the mandate over German East
Africa and some parts of Arabia, and
she has particular claims in this re-
spect over Mesopotamia. Great Brit
ain will enter a pool with the other
allies in the matter of indemnities, es-
peciaIly reparation for air raid dam
ages and shipping losses.
Belgium asks that her reparation
for damages wrought by Germany
shall be the first lien upon German
assets to the extent of at least 49,
000000,000 francs, or up to a much
larger sum if Germany does not re-
turn the machinery and the materials
taken from Belgium. Belgium believes
that she should bet paid first, because
she was the first to be invaded, be-
cause she has suffered more from
despoliation than any other country
In the war.
Italy asks for the TrentIno as far
as the Bremen pass, including the
whole OF southern Tyrol Triest, Istria,
Flume, cara. Sebenico, the larger part
of the Dalmatian islands, Avlona and
Its hinterland, protectorate over Al
bania, possession of the Islands in the
Aegean which were taken from Tur,
Key during the Tripolitan war and the
province of Adalia if France and Eng
and should take territory in Asia
Minor.
Territorial contentious in the Bal.
kans are complete ed and present DIFF.
fcnlt problems. Rumania desires to
retain possession Of that portion Of
Russian Bessarabia given her by the
central 1wers under the cancelled
treaty VI Bucharest and now In heI
possession.
All the. other nations who have
fought for world freedom have their
demands. which will be considered by
the peace congress.
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