Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-03

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Austria-Hungary adjoining old Ser
bia to the north to round out the
proposed Jugo-Slsv state. Both
Roumania and Serbia have moved
troops into Banat to secure their
claims and French troops have es-
tablished a neutral zone to prevent
hostilities between them.
Serbia.
Serbia's claims to take from the
Hapsburg monarchy the provinces
of Bosnia and Herzegovina are OPP
posed by no one in the entente
group The plans for the incor-
portion into Jugo-Slavia of the
Hapsburg province of Croatia, eX-
cept as to the coastal region of
Fiume, are also considered as sub
ject TO the international decision of
the southern Slavs.
Jugo-Slavia and Italian aims are
in sharp conflict in the settlement
of the Adriatic coast problem, in
yolving 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
Montenegro parliament but the
faction representing King Nicholas
and his adherents protests against =;
union which shall not leave to Mon
tenegro entire local self govern
ment. There is also a conflict be-
tween the plans of Jugo-Slav states
men and those OF Czecho-Slovakia,
who desire wide corridor from
Bohemia to the Adriatic to Hungary
and Crotia to secure an outlet to
the sea.
Greece.
Greece wishes northern Epirus
and Thrace with the exception of
Constantinople and the shores Of
the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles,
which premier Venizelos wishes to
place under international control.
Greece asks for the Vilayet of
Smyrna in Asia minor and the former
Turkish islands in the eastern Medi-
terranean, including those known as
the Dodecanesus. and claimed by
Italy
Bulgaria.
Although Bulgaria capitulated
without conditions and her future
territories depend upon the con-
querors, her government has not
abandoned hope of adding extensive
territories and it even hopes to re-
ceive extensions of the Bulgarian
frontiers in southern Macedonia
along the Aegean coast and in
Thrace.
Slovakia. 49,
The new state of Czecho-Slovakia
is carving out its territories almost
entirely at the expense of the old
Austria-Hungary. The old king
dom of Bohemia, Moravia and the
Slovak regions of northern Hun
gary already have been incorporat-
ed into the proposed state, but there
are certain conflicts with the Poles,
Ruthenians, Roumanians and Ger
mans, as we'll as with the Austrians
and the Magyars, because the Czechs
claim that parts Of German Saxony
and German Siles:a belong ethno-
graphically. to the new state.
The Czecho-Slovaks are coming
into OPPOSITION. to Polish claims in
Silesia and sections of Galicia, while
to the northeast Czecho-S1ovak ex-
pansion has brought them into con-
tact with the Ruthenians or Ukrain-
ians, in eastern Galicia. The new
state desires expansion southwark
over frontage upon the Danube
and over a corridor to the Adriatic.
Poland
The Poles, with an inadequate
army, are endeavoring to establish
possession of disputed regions on
three sides of Russian Poland and
Galicia, which constitutes the nu-
cleus of the new Polish state. The
Poles desire eastern Galicia to in
clude Lemberg, which is in the
Ukraine, and the disputed province
of Cheln, in little Russia.
To the northeast, the Poles desire
to have Wilma recognized as Polish.
Both Lithuanians and the bolshevik
have raised claims to Wilma, the boil
shevik supporting their pretentions
by a menacing military offensive.
The Poles are contending against
the Germans, not only for German
Silesia and Posen and West Prus-
STA, as previously populated chiefly
by Poles, but also for the city of
Danzig, so as to provide Poland
with direct access to the sea.
Should the Poles have Danzig,
East Prussia would be cut off from
the rest of Germany and would re-
main an island" populated by Ger
mans surrounded by Polish domin-
ions.
Belgium.
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,