Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1919-02-06
DESIRES OF VARIOUS
NATIONS OUTLINED
DELEGATES OF FIVE GREAT POW
Frs COMPARE ASPIRATIONS
WITH THOSE OF FRIENDS.
Problem Shows Many Mixed Phases,
but 1t ls Evident Heavy lndemnities
Will Be Demanded and a Divl-
sion of Territory Expected.

Paris.-The delegates of the five
great powers are now in a position to
compare clearly their own aspirations
and those of all their ahied friends
and to see the differences that must
be reconciled. The maximum of hopes,
often overlapping, has been told freely
and it remains for the peace confer
ence to adjust them into { co-ordinated
whole.
France wants, first Of all, Alsace-
Lorraine Internationally, and the right
to discuss and ultimately to fix the
French frontiers in their relation to
the Rhine, which may require the Gre
alton of buffer states. One of these
would be the Palatinate and another
Rhenish Prussia. France also desires
to annex the basin of the Sarre river,
which might be 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
kind-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 independent 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 $4,000, 100000
francs.
Great Britain's delegation believes
that society of nations is desirable
and obtainable and that it must be
established by the present peace con-
ference She advances no continental
purposes other than those of perma-
nent and just peace under the prin-
ciple of self-determination and that
there shall be international freedom
of transit by railroads and waterways,
which is Great ~.S3ffrain's general def
milton 81 freedom of commerce in
..Ghes of peace.
Great 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 PREPARATION
for damages wrought by Germany
shall be the first lien upon German
assets to the extent of at least 49,
600, 100000 francs, or up to a 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 Bremen pass, including the
whole of southern Tyrol; Triest, Istria,
Flume, cara, Sebenico, the larger part
of the Dalmatian islands, Avlona and
it's hinterland, a protectorate over Al
bania, possession of the islands in tue
| Aegean which were taken from Tur-
key during the Tripolitan war and the
province of Adalia If France and Eng
land should take territory in Asia
Minor.
Territorial contentious in the Bal
kans are complicated and present diff
ficult 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 hel
possession.
All the other nations who have
fought for world freedom have theil
demands, which will be considered by
the peace congress.