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LAND DEMANDS
PEACE PJzzLE
! NAM Nations Are Seeking
Territory
CONF tERtNCE 70 ADjjsT THEM
The French Claims Are Drawn to
Make Frontiers Safe From lnva-
s;on-BeIqium Insists on Eepara-
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ton.
Paris. Feb s.-The deleya o. nf the
five @Ycat powers i."r now III Il posi-
ton To compare Clearly in =. ""ii as
piratiuns and those of all ;htlr allied
friends ana 10 see the u.ffe.' l,,> that
must be reconciled.
The maximum Of hopes, often over
tapping. has been told freely and 1t
remains for the peace conference" To
adjust them into co-ord mated whole.
The desires of the Severai .':htrles
as presented may be compressed mus:
France wants, first of all. French
AlsaceI orraine unconditionally and
the right to discuss and ultimately fix
the French frontiers in their relation
to the Rhine, which may require the
c.. > lion IF buffer states. One of these
wn,:!d be palantine al:d another Rhen-
ish Prussia France desires also to
ANNEX the basin of the Sarre river,
which niight also be called area an
neXaiion.
lance will inss; = IL - T. as the
lnf; bank of the Rhine further to the
nnr;h is concerned the conference
sl,u,,Id forbid mili AIRY works of any
kind-harracks, bridgeheads, forth
AMI for.resses-in that zone. The
feeling is that the people inhahiting
that zone should be free to decide for
themselves whther hey wish TO join
France. form an independent state or
return 10 Germany.
The French bill for reparation is
not yet complete, hut It has been an
nounced in the chamber of deputies
that II will he abnut 66.0OaO00OOO
francs.
Cireu, Britain's del cation believes
thai 4 society of nations is deSir-
able and ohtainahle and that it must
be established by the present peace
conference. She advances no con-
tinental purposes other than those OF
a permanent and just peace. under
the principle Of sef-determnation and
that there shall be international free
dom of transit by railroads and water
ways. which is Great Britain's gen.
eral definition OF freedom of COM
merce in times of peace.
Great Britain VIII lake mandatory
power over the German islands south
Of the equator for Australia and over
German southwest Africa for the I'M
ion of South Africa. She will also
have the mandate over German East
Africa and some parts Of Arabia and
sh" has particular claims in this re-
spect over Mesopotamia.
Bel"ium asks that her reparation
for damages wrought by Germany
shall he the first lien upon German
assets 70 the extent Of at least 15,s
O0O, 900 900 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 her neutrality was violated and
because she has suffered more from
despoliation than any other country
in the war.
Belgium. having reaSSerted her in
dependence and thus emerged from
her old state of neutrality. desires
from Holland the left bank of the
Schelde and the peninsular of Mas
tricht, which protrudes into Belgian
Limburg. Belgium also will assent
to IA pebiscite in Luxembourg to de-
eide whether that country wishes to
join Belgium or France or to retain
its autonomy.
The foregoing may be considered
the extreme claims of Belgium.
Italy asks for the TrentinO as far
as the Brenner pass, including the
whole of the southern Tyrol; Trieste,
Istria. Flume, Zara, Sebenico, the
larger part of the Dalmatian island,
Aviuna and its hinterland: protectO-
rate over Albania. possession of the
islands in the Aegean which We're TAX
cn from Turkey during the TripOlian
war and the provinces of Adalia if
ritorA in Asia Minor.
Territorial contentious in the Baltic
are complicated and present difficult
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 her possession.
, Rumania also desires southern Do
hrudia. as ceded to her by Bulgaria
after the second Balkan war. Pos
session of Bessarabia and the Do
| brudia commands the mouth of the
Danube.
SerhiaS claims to take from the
HapSburg monarchy the province of
Bosnia and Herzegovina are opposed
by no one in tie entente group The
plans for the incC.~ ration into Jugo-
Slavia off the HapSburg province of
Croatia. except as to the coastal re-
cfnn nf Flume, are also considered as
subject % the internal decision of the
southern Slavs
Jugo-Slav and Italian aims are in
sharp conflict in the settlement of the
Adrat.c coast problem, involving the
future OF Flllme and the CrOatian sea-
| bcar.l along with 'hc Islands of Dal-
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