The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 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 1t 5 Evident Heavy lndemntes
Will Be Demanded and a Diyi-
sion of Territory Expected.

Paris.-The delegates of the five
grcu. powers are nov in Il position TO
compare clearly the.r own aspirations
and those of all their aimed friends
and to see the differences that must
be rcennciled. The maximum of hopes,
often overlapping, has been told freely
and it remains for the peace confer
cnce to adjust them into co-ordinated
whole.
France wants, first of all, Alsaee-
i.orraine Internationally, and the right
10 discuss and ultimately to fix the
french frontiers in their relation to
se Rhine, which may require the Gre
ation of buffer states. One of these
would be the Palatinate and another
i.hcnish russia. France also desires
10 annex the basin of the Sarre river
which might he 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
klnd--barracks, bridgeheads, forts and
fortresses-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 Independents state, or return
to Germany.
The French bill for reparation is not
yet complete, but it has been an
nounced in the chamber of deputies
that it Will be about 66,0O0.O0 900
! francs
Great Britain's delegation believes
that a society Of nations is desirable
and obtainable and that 1T must be
established by the present peace con
ference. She. advances no continentnl
purposes other than those OF q permit
4 nent and just peace under the pFisf
<4ciples Of self-leterm1nation and thai
'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.
Grent Britain will 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-
pecially 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,
100000, 900 francs, or up to Il much
larger sum if Germany does not re-
turn the machinery and the materials
taken from Belgium. Belgium believes
that she should be 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 Brenner pass. including the
whole of southern Tyrol; Triest, Istria
Flume, cara, Sebenico, the larger part
of the Dalmatian islands, Avlona and
its hinterland, a protectorate over AL
bania. possession of the islands in tie
Aegean which were taken from Tur-
key during the Tripolitan war and the
province of Adalia if France ana Eng
land should take territory in Asia
Minor
Territorial contentious in the Bal
kans are complicated and present diff
hcuIt problems. Rumania desires to
retain possession OF that portion of
Russian Bessarabia given her by the
central powers under the cancelled
treaty of Bucharest and now in her
possession
All the other nations who have
fought for world freedom have their
demands, which will be considered by
the peace congress.