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moved troops into Banat and French
troops have established "a neutral
zone to prevent hostilities. IA
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esSSAAS W RiCNCllt
sERsiA
Serbia's claims TO take from the
AaI,sazsirg = mons Ishy the provinces of
Bosnia and Herzegovina are opposed
by no one In the entente group.
The plans for the incorporation into
Jugo SlaSia of.the Hapsburg province
OF Croatia, except as to the coastal
region of Fiume, are altO considered
as subject to the internal decision Of
the southern Slavs.
) Jugo-Slav and Italian aims, are IN
sharp conflict ID the settlement of the
Adriatic problem, Involving Ffume.
the Groatian 1seahoard. Daimatia and
Albania.
The union OF Montenegro and Ser 4
bia in q greater Jugo- -Slav state has
been voted by the Montenegro Par
'liaihent King Nicholas and his ads
herents protest against q union which
shali not leave Montenegro self-goy-s
ernment.
There is also a conflict between
the Jugo-SlaX statesmen and those OF
Czecho-S -Sloyakia who desire a wide
corridor from Bohemia to the Adriatic.
ssSs GREECE
NJ Greece wishes northern Epirus and
'Thrace with Constantinople, the Bos-
,p0rus and Dardanelles under inter.
national control Greece asks for the
vilayet Of Smyrna In Asia Minor and
the former Turkish islands In the
eastern Mediterranean, including the
DOdecanesus, claimed by Italy.
BULGARIA.
Although Bulgaria capitnlated with,
out conditions, her government hopes
to receive extensions of the Bulga-
.rian frontiers in southern Macedonia
along the Aegean coast and in Thrace.
czEcHo. o.sLovAklA
The new state of Czecho- Slovakia
is carving out its territories almost
entirely at the expense of the old
Austria Hungary. Bohemia. Moravia
and the Sloyak regioes of northern
Hungary have been Incorporated into
the proposed state, but there are con
,fiicts with the Poles; Ruthenians,
Roumanians, Germans. AIstrians and
s'Magyars,5 because the Czechs claim
parts of Saxony and German Sliesia
sbeld efhhS Sgrap aphfcally p the new
state.
The CzeclO- SlOyak ks and Poles clash
in claims in Silesin and Galfcia. The
new state desires expansion south.
ward on the Danube and to the Adri;
attic.
POLAND.
The Poles are endeavoring to seize
disputed regions on three sides Of
Russian Poland and Galicia, including
Lemberg, which is In the Ukraine;
Cholm; in Little Russia, and wilma.
Both the Lithuanians and bolsheyiki
claim wilma.
The Poles are contending against
the Germans not. only for German ST.
Tesla and Posen and West Prussia, but
also for the port Of Danzig.
Should the Poles have Danzig, East
Prussia would be cut off from the. rest
Of Germany !
BELGIUM.
Belgium wants her reparation claim
to be the first lien upon German as
sets to the extent Of at least 1900, -
000,000 and have Germany return her
stolen machinery and materials.
Belgium, having reasserted her in.
dependence as against neutrality. de-
isires from Holland the left bank of,
the Scheldt and Maastricht peninsula,
and plebiscite in Luxemburg to de
eide whether that country wishes to
join Belgium or France.
u Holland resists any infringement
of the, frontiers, but appears willing
to revise the Scheldt navigation treaty
so Belgium should enjoy equal rights.
JAPAN.
Japan offers to return Tsing-Tau to
China. retaining certain former Ger
man concessions on the Shantung
peninsula.
sh1 desires to retain Germany's Pa
cific islands northsof the equator.
u e. SS CHINA.
a a a N 1ffpfNs a trnYH N or
foreign Imperialism or aggression.
abolition of consular rights" and for
the return OF Kian-Chau.
!. i.l,I' 4 1; J. I SWITZERLAND.
I'll zerla1d desires an outlet to the
ag9 msik Ing the Rhine neutral
~ earn This u Az accord with French
u \ ! ]. e2N,p,NAv,A.
Defimark wishes to annex that part
of nerthern Schleswig inhabited pre-
.dominantly by Danes. s8
4 Norway. has, certain aspirations to
'Spifzbergeh or Il part Of 1T, but Is not,
pressing these claims +.
n b Sweden wants the union with Swe-
den Of Me Alanl islands held by Fin.
land since the fall Of the Russian i'm.
'perial government. h. ~ s's
noe approve the concrete application. !
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