New-York tribune., 1919-02-03

gary ALREADY nave been incorporated
into the proposed state, but there are
thenians, Rumanians and Germans, as
we'll as with the Austrians and the
Magyars, because the Czechs claim that
parts of German Saxony and German
Silesia belong ethnographically 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-Slovak expansion has
brought them into contact with the
Ruthenlans, or Ukrainians, in Eastern
Galicia and with other spheres claimed
by the Rumanians. The new state de-
slres expansion southwark over a front
age on the Danube and over a corridor
to the Adriatic
Dispute on PoIand's Border
POEAND-The Poles, with an made
quate army, are endeavoring to estab-
lish possession of disputed regions on
three sides of Russian Poland and Ga
llcla. which constitutes the nucleus of
the new Polish state. The Poles de-
sire Eastern Galicia to include Lem
berg, which is in the Ukraine, and the
disputed province Of Cholm, in Little
Russia.
To the northeast the Poles desire to
have Wilma recognized as Polish. Both
the Lithuanians and the Bolsheviki
have raised claims to Wilma, the Boil
sheviki supporting their pretensions
Poles ar econtending against the Ger
mans not only for German Silesia and
Posen and West Prussia, as provinces
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 Danzib East
Prussia would be cut off from the rest
of Germany and would remain an island
populated by Germans.
Belgium Wants Reparation
Belgium asks that her
reparation for damages wrought by
Germany shall be the first lien upon
German assets to the extent of at
least $4,000, 100000 ($3,0C0,000 000) or
up to much larger sum il Germany
does not return the machinery and
the materiels taken from Belgium.
Belgium believes that she should be
paid first because she was the first to
be invaded; because her neutrality was
violated, and because she has suffered
more from despoilation than any other
country in the war.
Belgium, which has reasserted her
her old state of neutrality, desires
from Holland the left bank of the
Scheldt and the peninsula of Mas
tricht, which protudes into Belgium
Limburg. Belgium also will assent to
plebiscite in Luxembourg to decide
whether that country wishes to join
Belgium or France, or to retain it's
autonomy.
The foregoing may be considered the
extreme claims of Belgium. They come
into conflict with Holland, which re-
slsts any infringement Of the from
tiers asked for by the Belgian an
neXationists. The government of Ho-
land appears willing to revise the
Echeldt navigation treaty so that Bel
gum should enjoy equal rights with
Holland.
Japan Wants Islands
JAPAN-Japan enters the peace
conference, as Baron Maxine, the
senior delegate, has said, with no ter
ritorial amb tions in China" and that
as for Tsng-tau, "shc will hand it
back to China under the terms of the
notes exchar ged between China and
Japan in May, 1916" This is inter
preted by Japan as permitting her to
retain certain former German conces-
sions on the Shantung peninsula
Japan, Baron Maxine explains
neither intends nor desires to inter
fere in Russian affairs, but is willing
il solicited, to aid Russia in restoring
order"
These declarations dispose of two OF
the main questions in which Japan is
interested except that she desires to
equator which formerly belonged tc
Germany.
CLIMATIC Chinese delegates ask
to be gu, ranteed from foreign I'M
perialism tr aggression, and desire
the gradual abolition of 'consulal
rights" and to be allowed to impose
higher duties on importatjons. The
Chinese also ask for the return OF
Kiau-c chow.
Swiss Seek Sea Outlet
SWITZERLAND -- Switzerland ap-
pears to be the only neutral state
which has so far presented her desires
to the peace conference. The Swiss
government has represented that
while Switzerland would be glad to
participate in society of nations, yet
because Of her mixed nationalities she
could not do so if that should mean
the use Of her troops in policing the
world by force, as, perhaps, against
Italy, France or Germany.
Switzerland desires an outlet to the
sea by making the Rhine a neutra
stream. This is in accord with French
desires, since if Alsace-Lorraine be
comes French from Basle northwart
, and an independent buffer states
should be erected out OF the Palatinate
and Rhenish Prussia, as suggested by
| Marshal Foch it would be necessary
to ncutralize the Rhine. If this were
done it would give Switzerland ar
outlet to the sea.
Scahdinavians Are Modest
SCANDINAVIA territorial as
rirations of the three Scandinavian
powers are considered modest. Den.
mark wishes to annex that part OF
northern Schleswig inhabited predomi-