South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-04-06

between the Poles Of this block and the Baltic there
is a facade of German population stretching
from konigsburg Danzig, a population of perhaps
100000 TeUtons and Germans than
peoples II this population surrendered to Poland
there bound be a protest the of Ger
many that the scf-deterHinatou Of these people had
been prevented. On the other hand if Poland were
denied her outlet to the through Danzig, which
was once her gate, She would remain in economic
servitude 10 Germany third pcssiDty the crea-
ton Of corridor between Danzig and Bronberg
the VistUa. offered greater
cutes since it to Poland indcfensibe of
territory separating two masses of German population
and restored the conditions which had led the first
partition.
After many long debates the allies have. it appears
taken the bull by the horns and accepted the only og
cal solution. Prussia and East Prussia be
Polish. The German facade the Baltic is be
abolished and 2O0O0,o00 of Poles totally inside this
facade have the breathing essential TO their
national existence.
Thus constituted Poland will consist Of all of Rus
sian Poland. practically all old prov
nces of east and west Prussia, and Posen relatively
small strip OF PrUssian, Sesia valuable
great mineral wealth and rather than half of the
Austrian province of Galica. including Lemberg. 1t
will also include the old wilma and Grodno. Thus
stitutcd Poland will have population of between %
100000 and 10000 600 of people least three-fourhs
of them Poles, and of between 100000 and
l15.OC0 square miles In . word. it will have
approximately equal to that Of the modern Italian
kingdom with population in of that of Italy
the moment when the Savoy monarchy achieved its
unity in the nineteenth century.
SECOND SIAN PROBLEM
LESS DIFFICULT ONE.
The second of the states be re-created. that OF
Bohemia and Moravia, with Austrian Silesa,
well Bohemia as an Austrian province
the frontiers had enjoyed before Thirty
Years War deprived it OF it's independence. The
gle serious question TO German populations in
habtng the frontier districts. These populations
would naturally choose be German rather than Slav
but they surrendered to Germany, the
would ne deprived Of all its natural frontiers all the
gaeways to its territory would be in hands In
this situation again the conference
the logical IL is resolved preserve the his
toric frontiers of the Czechs.
% will add he
counties Of Hungary lying the tangled hills
which constitute the south shore of the Carpathians
Czecho-Sovakia thus constituted will with
area rather more 40 900 square miles is
about times the size of Belgium, with popula
ton of between 100000 and $4,000 900.
from the Roumanian frontier Into the heart
Germany having the II outline OF the observa-
ton balloon which the named sausage"
despite this strange configuration, population
viii be almost solidly Slav.
JUGO-SLAV PROBLEM
NOT FULLY SOLVED.
The third of the states be created that of the
Jugo-Slavs. Here single difficulty had to be faced
and has not yet been fully resolved. From the Alps
the Danube. the brave river constituted natural
frontier which substantially divided the from
the Slovins the and the Hungarians from the
Serbs in the east Minor notifications TO take IN out
lying Serb fractions beyond the Drave the Danube
the Thesis have made. but substantially
northern frontiers Jugo-Sava will the
the Danube from the italian frontiers Trieste
and the old Bulgarian frontiers Widn. On east
the Old Serbian frontier will be maintained Along the
Adratic. with two exceptions the supplies the
ural frontier. but in Dalmatia and about Fiume and
Trieste Italian Jugo-Slavic aspirations clashed
and this clash has supplied the difficult
questions of the whole conference.