The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-03

PARIS. Feb, 3. (By the Associated
Pressl-Tne delegates OF the great pow
ers are now in a position to mpar
clearly, their W aspirations and those
OF their allied friends and to see the
d~liIerneees that must be reconciled.
Inc desires OF the more important
countries as presented may be com
pressed thus:
France-France wants, first of all,
Alsace-Lorraine Internationally, and
the right to discuss and ultimately to
TX the French frontiers in their rela-
tlon to the Rhine which may require the
creation OF buffer states. One of these
would be the Palatinate and the other
Rhenish Prussia France desires also
TO annex the basin OF the Safre river
which might be called a remuneration,
France will insist that so far as the
left bank OF the Rhine farther to the
should forbid military works OF any
kind-barracks, bridgeheads, forts and
tortresses--in 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 Ger
many.
The French bill for reparation Is not
yet complete, but 1t has been an
announced in the chamber Of deputies
that 1t will be aboutO 66, 900, 600, 90
francs.
Regarding Syria.
The French government does not ask
Tor a protectorate in Syria In the ordi,
nary sense, because 1t considers that
the population there Is too advanced to
make a protectorate necessary, but
France, on account OF her traditional
interests in that country, feels that she
should be called upon to exercise some
sort Of guardianship or guidance untii
herself.
Great Britain-Great Britaln's delega-
ton believes that a society of nations
Is desirable and obtainable and that 1t
u be established by the present
peace conference. She advances no con-
tinental purposes other than a perma-
nsnt and just peace under the princl-
pie OF self-determination and that there
shiuld be international freedom of rtansit
by railroads and waterways, which is
Great B%ritain's definition Of freedom OF
commerce In times of peace.
Great Britain will take mandatory
power over the German islands south
Of the equator for Australia and over
German Southwest Africa for the I'm
ion Of South Africa. She will also have
the mandate over German East Africa
and some parts Of Arabia and she has
Mesopotamia. Great Britain win enter
a pool with the other allies in the mat
ter OF indemnities, especially repara-
ton for air raid damages and ship
ping losses.
Italy--ltaly asks for the Trentino as
far as the Bremner pass, including the
whole of the Southern Tyrol; Trieste,
Istria, Fiume, cara, Sebenieo, the larg-
er part of the Dalmatian islands, Az
Iona and its h%interland, a protectorate
over Albania. possession of the islands
In the Aegean which were taken from
Turkey during the Tripolitan war, and
England should take territory in Asia
Minor.
The Italian contention Is that the
Dalmatian Islands and such parts OF
the Dalmatian coast as are not as
signed TO Italy shall be n~eutralized,
their colonial possessions In Africa,
Italy desires to enlarge her possessions
In Erietera and Tripoli.
Observation-Disclosures concession in
the Balkans are complicated and pre-
sent difficult problems, Rumania de-
ton Of Russian Bessarabia given her by
the central powers under the cancelled
treaty OF Bucharest and now In her
possession. Runlania also desires
Southern Dobrudja as coded to her by
Bulgaria after the second Balkan war
Possession of Bessarabia and the Do
brudja commands the mouth of the
Danube.
10 the westward Rumania wants tc
annex the HapsburK provinces OF Blu
kowlna and Transylvania and a consid.
cradle part of the rich agricultural dis
triots Of Banat, 1t Is here that the
Rumania aspirations conflict with those
of Serbia which affirm that under heI
war agreements with the entente
Serbia should have a large portion Of
Banat as well as other sections OF for.
mer A~ustria-aungary adjoining ole
Serbia to the north to round out the
proposed Jugo-Slav state. Both Ru.
mania and Serbia have moved troop.
into Banat to secure their claims anC
French troops have established a neu.
trail zone to prevent hostilities between
them.
Serbia--Serbia's claims to take from
the Hapsburg monarchy the provinces
of Bosnia and Herzegovina are opposed
by no one In the entente group. The
plans for the incorporation In Jugo-
Slavia OF tho Hapsburg province OF
Croatia except as to the coastal re-
| gi0n OF Fiume are also considered sub.
tect to the internal decision of the
| Southern Slavs,
Jugo-SiRv and Italian aims are lr
sharp conflict In the settlement of the
! future OF Fiume and the Croatian sea
board along with the islands of Dial.
malta and Albania.
Czecho- Slovakia-The new state Of
Cgecho-Slovak Is carving out its ter
ritories almost entirely at the expense
Of the old Austria Hungary, The ole
Kingdom Of Bohemia. Moravia and tn,
Slovak regions of Northern Hungary
already have been incorporated into thu
proposed state, but thsre are certain
| conflicts with the Poles, Ruthenians
Rumanians and Germans as well q,
with the Austriafis and the Magyar,
because the Cgechs claim that part o
Cerman-Saxony end German Si,esia be,
lor~ing ethnographically to the new
state.
P~oland-The Poles. with an made.
nuate army, are endeavcring to estah,
fish possession Of disputed regions or
three sides OF Russian Poland and Ga
licia, which constitutes the nucleus o
the new Polish state. The Poles de.
sire Eastern Galicia n include lem,
berg, which Is In the Ukraine, and tn,
a'seuted province of cholm in Mttl,
Rnssia
I've Poles are conteAdi,~ AGAINST n,
Ccrmnrs not onNr Cor German Silevi,
md poeen and wret pr,,sSia as nroy
i-ces rorulptAd chinrlv nv Poles. NJ,
ateo for The CITY Of Panxlg so as TO pro
vide Poland with direct access TO IN,