Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-03
Z 0 N { OF.
SAFETY ON.
RHINE is
PEACE aim
Creation of Buffer States
Suggested; Aspirations Of
Five Great Powers
Taking Shape.
Bv Associated Press.


Paris, Feb. 2.-The delegates OF
the FIVE great powers are now in a
position to compare clearly their
own aspirations and those of all
their allied friends and to see the
differences that must be reconciled.
The maximum of hopes, often over
tapping, has been told freely, and it
remains for the peace conference to
adjust the minto a co-ordinated
whole. The desires of the several
countries as presented may be COM
pressed thus:
France.
/ France wants, first of all, Alsace-
Lorraine Internationally, and the
right to discuss and ultimately to
fix the French frontiers in their re-
lations to the Rhine, which may re-
quire the creation of buffer states.
One of these would be the Palati-
nate and another Rhenish Prussia.
France also desires to annex the
basin of the Sarre river, which might
be called a remuneration.
France will insist that so far as
the left bank of the Rhine further
to the north is concerned, the con-
ference should forbid military works
of any kind-barracks, bridgeheads,
forts and fortresses-in that zone.
The feeling is that the people inhabi-
ting that zone should be free to de-
eide for themselves whether they
wish to join France, form an in
dependent state or return to Ger
many.
The French bill for reparation is
not yet complete, but it has been an
nounced in the chamber that it will
be about 66,000,00O,000 francs.
The French government does not
ask for protectorate in Syria in
the ordinary sense because it con
siders that the population there is
too advanced to make a protectorate
necessary, 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 her
self.
Great Britain.
Great Britain's delegation believes
that society of nations is desir-
able and obtainable and that it must
be established by the present peace
conference. She advances no con-
tinental purposes other than those
OF permanent and just peace under
the principle of self-determination
and that there shall be international
freedom of transit by railroads and
waterways, which is Great Britain's
/ definition 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 respect over Meso-
potamia. Great Britain will enter
a pool with the other allies in the
matter of indemnities. especially
reparation for air raid damages and
shipping losses.
Italy.
/ Italy asks for the Trentino as
far as the Brenner pass. including
the whole of southern Tyrol;
Trieste Istria. Fiume, Zara, Seben-
ico the larger part of the Dalmatian
islands, Avlona and its hinterland
a protectorate over Albania, posses
sion of the islands in the Aegean
which were taken from Turkey
during the Tripolitan war, and the
province of Adalia if France and
England should take territory IN
Asia Minor.
The Italian contention is that the
| Dalmatian islands and such parts
of the Dalmatian coast as are not
I assigned to Italy shall be neutral.
lied. Should France and England
extend their colonial possession II
Africa, Italy desires to enlarge her
1 possession in Eritrea and Tripoli.
hOu1uh4l4ds
Territorial contentious in the Bal
kans are complicated and present
difficult problems. Roumania de-
sires to retain possession of tha'
portion OF Russian Bessarabia giver
her by the central powers under the
cancelled treaty OF Bucharest anC
Fnow in her possession, Roumani;
also desires southern Dobrudja a.
ceded to her by Bulgaria after th'
second Balkan war. Possession o
Bessarabia and the Dobrudja com
mands the mouth of the Danube.
To the westward, Roumania wants
to annex the Hapsburg province
E of Bukowina and Transylvania ant
/ a considerable part of the rich agri
| cultural district of Banat. Il is her
that the Roumanian aspirations con
: hict with those of Serbia, whicl
) affirm that under her war agree
. ments with the entente Serbs
. should have large portion of Bana
as we'll as other sections of forme
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