South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-30

is 10 lose outright Alsace- Lorraine
with an area which. together with
that of the Saar coal district,
slightly exceeds 5000 square miles
and an ante-war population of
$3.50. GOO She is to lose the DAN
ish speaking portion of Schleswig,
with upwards Of 1000 square miles
and approximately 100000 people
although the question of the extent
Of the area and of the number Of
people taken will depend upon the
vote Of the inhabitants and some
Of the southern districts, includinS
the city of Flensburg, may choose
to remain German. She is to lose
her province of POsen practically
entire, with an area of II 900
square miles ana a population Of
1000, 600, together with a strip Of
Upper Silesia. which viii contain
several thousand square miles and
/ 200. 900 people.
GERMANY WILL LOSE
PEOPLE AND TERRITORY.
In sum, Germany will Jose thus
outright between 10000 and $4,000
square miles, approximately 10
percent of her old area, with some
thing like 100000 millions OF peO-
pie or about percent Of her ante
war population. This last will pos
sibIy but not surely be offset by
the gain incident 10 the union of
the German speaking districts of
Austria with the German empire.
These include the old divisions Of
Lower Austria, Upper Austria
Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, at least
half Of the Tyrol ard the VOrarl-
berg with a. population OF about
1000. geo and an area in excess of
so. 900 square miles. So far then
Germany stands to gain, slightly
after having surrendered Alsace-
Lorraine TO France, Schleswig to
Denmark and Posen and a portion
of SIlesia TO the new Poland.
But there are two other changes
I'm German frontiers which may
wholly modify this situation. Be
tween the Rhine on the east and
the Belgian. French and LuXem-
bourg boundaries on the west il is
now proposed to create a Rhenish
republic which for a considerable
period Of time-for that time dur
ing which the allied armies viii
occupy German territOry-is a
guarantee for the payment of Ger
man obligations. This Rhenish re-
public will have an area approx
mately 1000 square miles and 4
population OF between 1000. 600
and 100000 If. as is possible. 1T
the end or the period OF occupation
IT chooses Independence rather
than a return TO Germany this pop
ulation viii DC lost TO the empire
permanently. but in any case. it will
be lost FOR q period OF years and
German military resources viii be
correspondence reduced.
POLISH PROBLEM ALSO
INVOLVED ~ PACT.
Finally we face the possibility eX-
pressed in the demand OF Pres't VIII
son in his Il points, that Poland
should have access TO the sea. Three
solutions Of this problem are pos
sible. The first would simply give
the Poles rights in Dantzig COM
patable with those which the Serbs
now possess with respect 20 the
Greek port OF SalOnika, rights>which
do not conflict with Greek sovereign
" and on the other hand guarantee
the Serbs against any interference
with the free egress and ingress OF
their commerce IT is the simple
est solution. The second solution
suggests the 5estowal upon Poland
OF a consider bic strip OF territory
on the left bank OF the Vistula river
from the old Russian frontier 10 the
Baltic constituting perhaps "a half of
the Prussian province Of East Prus-
STA. inhabited mainly but not entire
ly by Polish speaking peoples. The
third solution contemplated the an
neNarion and accession TO Poland OF
AN the German territory between the
old Russian frontier and the Ger