The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1919-02-13
ASPIRATIONS OF
NATIONS Reveal
MUCH Difference

| Work Before Peace Conference
Is to Adjust Them Into Har-
monious Whole. .
- <
QUITE IMPOSSIBLE THAT
EACH CAN BE SATISFIED.
Many Demands That Are Certain to
Be Formulated Must BE Modified
Brief Outline Of the Claims to ee
Made. ..>:
It Is possible now to state det1"
nitely that the five great powers: have
reached complete understanding as
to their desires In the peace confer
ence. S.. / 7-,~
Summed up briefly, the aspirations
Of the various countries are as follows
FRENCH CLAIMS. {.
France wants, first of all, Alsace-Lor-
raine Internationally, and the right to
discuss and ultimately to fix the French
frontiers in their relation to the Rhine,
which may require the creation of buff
fer states. One of these would be the
Palatinate and another Rhenish Prus-
STA. France desires also 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 farther 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 Them
selves whether they wish to join
France, form an Independent state, or
return to Germany. q.
The French bill for reparation IS not
complete, but it has been announced In
the chamber of deputies that it will
be about $4,000, OOO.O 900 francs ($13,-
20OOOO,OO0).
The French government does not
ask for protectorate in Syria in the
ordinary sense because it considers
that the population there is too ad-
vanced to make protectorate neces-
sary, but France, on account of her
traditional interests in that country,
feels that she should be called upon to
exercise some sort of guardianship or
guidance until Syria should be fully
able to govern herself.
! BRITISH CLAIMS.
Great Britain's delegation believes
that society of nations is desirable
and attainable and that 1t must be
established by the present peace con-
ference. She advocates no continental
purposes other than those of a per-
manent 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 Britain's general def
milton of freedom of commerce in
times 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 Britain will enter a pool with
the other allies in the matter of In
IDENTITIES, especially reparation for air
raid damages and shipping losses.
lTALY's CLAIMS.
Italy asks for the Trentino as far
as the Bremen pass, including the
whole of the southern Tyrol; Trieste,
1stria, Fiume. lara, Sebenico, the
larger part of the Dalmatian islands,
Avlona and its hinterland, pr6tecto-
rate over Albania, possession # the
islands in the AEGEAN which were
taken from Turkey during the Tripoli-
tan war, and the province Of Adalia If
France and England should take terri
tory In Asia Minor. @
The Italian contention Is that the
Dalmatian islands and such parts Of
the Dalmatian coast as IRE not as
signed to Italy shall be neutralized.
Should France and England extend
their colonial possessions in Africa,
Italy desires to enlarge her posses
sions in Eritrea and Tripoli She also
wants Djibouti, French SOmaliland
and British Somaliland, on the Red
sea. 49,
RoUMANIA.
Roumania wants that portion of
Russian Bessarabia given her by the
central powers under the Cancelled
treaty Of Bucharest; southern Do
brudja as coded to her by Bulgaria
after the second war, thus command
ing the. Danube; the Hapsburp Drov.