New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Territorial Wants of Each
Nation at the Peace Table
Aspirations of Chief Powers and Those of Their
Allies and Neutrals Now Fully Outlined and
Early Report ON Various Claims Is Promised

fARlS, Feb. , BY The Associated
Press).-The delegates of the five great
powers are now in position to COM
pare clearly their own aspirations and
those OF all their allied friands and to
see the differences that must be recon
ciled.
Inc maximum of hopes, often over
tapping, has been told freely, and it
remains for the peace conference to
adJusS them into a coordinated whole.
The desires of the several countries
as presented may be compressed thus:
FRANCE-France wants. first of all,
Alsace-Lorraine Internationally and
the rights to discuss and ultimately to
fix the French frontiers in their rela-
tion to the Rhine, which may require
the creation of buffer states. One of
these would be the Palatinate and an
other Rhenish Prussia. France desires
also to annex the basin of the Sarre
River, which might be called rean-
neXatlon.
No Rhine Military Works
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
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 Ger
many.
The French bill for repavtion is not
yet complete, but it has been an
nounced in the Chamber of Deputies
that it will be about $4,000, 100000
francs ($13,20O, ,000,000).
The French government does not
ask for a protectorate in Syria in the
ordinary sense, because it considers
that the population there is too ad-
vanced to make a protectorate neces-
sary, but France, on account of her ira
ditional interests in that country, feels
that she should be called upon to eXer-
els some sort of guardianship or guild
ance until Syria should be fully able
to govern herself
Great Britain's Demands
GREAT BRITAIN - Great Britains
delegation believes that society of
nations is desirable and obtainable, and
that it must b established by the pres
ent peace conference. She advances no
Continental purposes other than those
of permanent and just peace under
that there shall be international free
dom of transit by railroads and water
ways. whic his Great Britan's general
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 also will have
the mandate over German East Africa
and some parts of Arabia, and she has
particular claims in this respect over
Mesopotamia. Great Britain will enter
pool with the other Allies in the
matter of indemnities, especially repa-
ration for air raid damages and ship
ping losses.
Italy Wants Trentino
ILALY-Italy asks for the Trentino
as far as the Brenner Pass, including
the whole of southern Tyrol, Trieste,
Istria, Fiume, lara, Sebenico, the
larger part of the Dalmatian Islands,
Avlona and it's hinterland, protccto-
rate over Albania, possession of the
islands in the Egean which were taken
from Turkey during the Tripolitan war
and the province of Adaha if France
and England should take territory in
Asia Minor
The Italian contention is that the
the Dalmatia coast as are not assigned
the Dalmation coast as are not assigned
to Italy shall be neutralized. Should
France and England extend their colo
NAL possessions in Africa, italy de-
sires to enlarge her possessions in Ell
trea and Tripoli.
RUMANIA- Territorial contentious
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 de-
sires Southern Dobrudja, as ceded to
her by Bulgaria after the second Bal
kan war. Possession Of Bessaraba and
the Dobrudja commands the mouth OF
the Danube.
To the westward, Rumania wants to
annex the Hapsburg provinces of Bu-
kowina and Transylvania and consid-
cradle part of the rich agricultural
district Of Banat. 1t is here that the
Rumanian aspiration conflicts with
Rumanian aspirations conflict with
under the war agreements with the
Entente she should have large por-
ton of Banat as we'll as other sections
of former Austria Hungary, adjoining
old Serbia to the north, to round out
Rumania and Serbia have moved troops
into Banat to secure their claims and
French troops have established neu-
trail zone to prevent hostilities between
them.
Serbia's Territorial Plan
SERBIA-Serbia's claim to take from
the Hapsburg Monarchy the provinces
of Bosnia and Herzegovinas4 are opposed
by no one in the Entente group. Inc
plans for the incorporation into Jugo-.
slavia of the Hapsburg province of
Croatia, except as to the coastal region
of Fiume, are also considered as sub
ject to the internal decision of the
southern Slavs.
Jugo-Slav and Italian aims are IN
sharp conflict in the settlement Of the
Adriatic coast problem, involving the
future of Fiume and the Croatian sea
/ board along the islands Of Dalmatia and
/ Albania The union of Montenegro
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