Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-02-03
Peace Conference
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africa, Italy desires 10 enlarge ner
possessions in F,ritrea and Tripoli.
ECMANTA -Territoria contentious
in the Balkans are complicated and
present difficult problems. Rumania
desires to retain possession OF that
portion of Russian Bessarabia Civ
en- to her by the Central Powers I'M
der the cancelled treaty of Bucharest
and now in her possession. Eumanja
also desires southern Dobrudja as
coded to her by Bulgaria after the
second Balcan war. Possession of
Bessarabia and the Dobudja COM
mands the mouth of the Danube.
To the westward Rumania wants to
annex the HapsburS provinces of
Bukowina and Transatlantic and a
considerable part of the rich agricul-
tural district Of Eanat. 1t is here
that the Rumanian aspiration con-
llicts with those of Serbia which af-
firms that under her war agreements
with the Entente she should have
a large portion Of Hanat as we'll as
other sections of former Austria
Hungary adjoining old Serbia to the
north to round out the proposed
JuSo-CIdN state. bOtIi IkuHltiilh anu
Serbia have moved troops into Banat
to secure their claims and French
troops have established neutral
zone to prevent hostilties between.
SERBIA Serbia's claims to take
from the !Iapsburg monarchy the
provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina
are opposed by no one in the En-
tente group. The plans for the in
corporation into ugo-Slavia of the
IIapshurg province Of Croatia. eX-
cept as to the coastal region of Fiuma
are also considered as subject to the
internal decision of the southern
Slavs.
Jugo-Slav and Italian aims are in
sharp conflict in the settlement of the
Adriatic coast problems involving
the future of Fiume and the Croatian
seaboard along with the islands of
Dalmatia and Albania. The union
of Montenegro and Serbia as part of
a greater Jugo-Slav state has Been
voted by the Montenegrian parlia-
ment but the faction representing
King Nicholas and his adherents
protes; against action which shall not
government. There is also Il conflict
between the plans of Jugo-Siav
statesmen and those of Czecho-Slo-
vakia who desire a wide corridor
from Bohemia to the Adriatic to
Hungary and Croatia to let the out
the sea.
GREECE-G reece wishes northern
Epirus and Thrace with the exception
of ConstantinOple and the shores Of
the BosphorllS and the Darda nelles.
which Premier Venizelos wishes to
place under international control.
Greece asks for the villaNet of
Smyrna in Asia Minor and the for
mer Turkish islands in the eastern
Mediterranean including those known
as the Dodecanesus claimed by Italy
BULGARIA - Although Bulgaria
capitulated without conditions and
her future territories depend upon the
ConquerOrs, her government has not
abandoned hope of adding extensive
territories and it even hopes to re-
ccive extensions of the Bulgarian
frontiers in Southern Macedonia
along the Aegean. coast and in
Thrace.
CZECHO- SLOVAkIA - The new
state of Czccho- Slovakia is carving
out its territories almost entirely at
the expense OF the old Austria Hun
gary. The old Kingdom of Bohemia.
Moravia, and the Slovak regions Of
Northern Hungary already have been
incorporated into the proposed state
but there are certain conflicts with
the Poles, Luthenians. Rumanians and
Germans az well as with the Austri-
ans and the Magyars because the
Czechs claim that parts of German
SaXony and German Silesia belong
ethnogra phically to the new state
The Czecho- Slovakhs are coming
into opposition to Polish claims in
Silesia and sections Of Galicia while
to the northeast Czccho- Slovak ex-
pansion has brought them into con-
tact with the Ruthenians. or Ukrain-
| ians. in eastern Galicia, and with
other fringes OF spheres claimed by
the Rumanians. The new state de-