Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-03
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voted by the Montenegro parliament
but. the faction representing King
Nicholas and his adherents protest
against a union which shah not leave
to Montenegro entire local self-gov-
eminent. There is also n conflict be-
tween the plans of Jugo- SlaV states
men and those. of Czecho- Slovakia
who desire wide corridor from Bo-
hernia to the Adriatic to Hungary and
Croatia to secure an outlet to the sea.
Greece: Greece wishes northern
Epirius and Thrace with the excep-
ton 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 Mediterranean,
including those known as the Dode-
canesus, and claimed by Italy
Bulgaria. Although Bulgaria ca
| pitulated without conditions and her
| future territories depend upon the
conquerors, her government has not
| abandoned hope of adding extension
| territories and it even hopes to re-
| ceive extensions of the Bulgarian
frontiers in southern Macedonia along
| the Aegean coast andsfin Thrace
Czechs PluGking Austria.
| Czecho- Slovakia: The new state of
| Czecho-Slovak is carving out its tor
ritories almost entirely at the expense
of the old Austria Hungary. The old
kingdom of Bohemia, Moravia and the
Sloyak regions of northern Hungary
already have been Incorporated into
hn c-tn h,,&
tain conflicts with the Poles, Ruthen-
| ians, Roumanians and Germans, as
well as with the Austrians and the
| Magyars because the Czechs claim
that parts of German Saxony and
German Slesia belong photographic
ally 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 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 on the Danube and
over a corridor to the Adriatic
Poland: The Poles with an made
duate army are endeavoring to es-
tablish possession of disputed regions
on three sides of Russian Poland and
Galicia, which constitutes the nucleus
of the new Polish state. The Poles
desire eastern Galica 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 Bolshe,
Wiki have raised their claim to wilma,
the Bolsheviki supporting their pre-
tensions by menacing military often
sive. The Poles are contendins
against the Germans not only for GER
| man SileSia and Posen and West Prus-
STA, as provinces populated chiefly by
Poles, but also for the city of DabZig
so as to provide Poland with direct
access to the sea.
Should the Poles have, Dabzig, East
Prussia would be cut off from the
rest of Germany and would remain an
island populated by Germans SUR
rounded lY Polish dominions.
Belgium Wants Reparation.
Belgium: Belgium asks that her
reparation for damages wrought BY
| Germany shall he the first lien upon
| German assets to the extent of at least
l5'0oO,OOO,OO0 francs or up to much
larger sum, If Germany does not reg
/ turn the machinery and the materials
| taken from Belgium. Belgium believes
That she should be paid first because
/ she was the first to he invaded be-
cause her neutrality was violated and
I because she has suffered more from
despoliation than any other country
! in the war s5f
! Belgium, having reasserted her lnl
| dependence and thus emerged from
her old state of neutrality, desires
from Holland the left hank of the
Schledt and the peninsula of--Maas7
trlcht which protrudes into Belgian
| limburg. Belgium also will assent 70
a plebiscite in Luxembourg to decide
whether that country wishes to JON
Belgium or France or to retain IT'S
autonomy, .s-A +. 80,
The foregoing may be considered
the extreme claims of Belgium. They
lcome-into conflict with Holland,