Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-03
FRANCE MAKES BID
FOR NEW FRONTIER
AND BUFFER STATE /
Also Asks Military Works
Be Abandoned in Al
sace-Lorraine.
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GREAT BRITAIN SEEKING .s
CONTROL OF COLONIES
Trentino as Far as Brenner
Pass Sought by the
Italians. 80 go
RoU,LANIA ALSO WANTS SLICE I
Serbia Claims Two Provinces From
the Hapsburg Monarchy, Bos- -
mia and Herzegovina. ee
RoU,LANIA ALSO WANTS SLICE
Serbia Claims Two Provinces From
the Hapsburg Monarchy, Bos- g.
mia and Herzegovina.
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By Associated Press .''tH-y
PARIS. Feb. 1.-The delegates OF
the fve great powers are now in II
position to compare cAarly their own
aspirations and those OF all their. al
lied friends and to see the difference.
that must be reconciled The maximun,
or hopes. often overlapping. has been
told freely. and 1t remains for the
peace conference 10 adjust them into
co-ordinated whole. The desireas 81
the several countries as presented nlav
be compressed thus: zess-
france wants, first OF all, Alsaee-
Lorraine Internationally and the right
10 discuss and ultimately to fix the
the Rhine, which may require the creas
ton OF buffer states One OF these
would be the Palatinatc and another
Rhentsh Prussia, France desires ,aist, j
10 annex the basin OF the Sarre RIVER
which might be called n remuneration.
=. !, rance Will Insist TINT SO farsas the
north Is concerned. the conference
should forbid military works Of Sany
ktnd--barracks, bridgeheads, forts ana
mat the people inhabiting that Zone
should be freeSto decide for. thernnaIVes
Wms,her, Tnre, l!a : ltthisy,wlah to Join France
return To Germany. ''f I, s1Sf
FRENCH PREPARATION. .BII,r. stsxrt
is NOT YET FINISHED !
~ The French bin for reparation is not
yet complete. but IT has been an
nounced In the Chamber of Deputies
francs. ..7'7't w srt -
Tho French government does mot
aSk Tor protectoratc III Syria in the
ordinary sense. because it considefs
that the population there is too adj
vanced to make protectorate neces-
traditional interests in that country,
ieeis that she should be called upon
to exercise some sort of guardianship
or guidance until Syria should be fully
able to govern herself.
WHAT GFEAT DRITAIN ss,-sss
DEMANDS OF DELEGATES
Great Britain's delegation believes
and obtainable. and that lit must be
established by the present peace con-
ference. She advances no continental,
purposes other than those OF a HsrE
manent and just peace ander that prln- Z
ciple OF self-determInation, and that
there shall be international freedorf--5f
nansit by railroads and waterways,
milton of freedom Of commerce in times
Of peace.
Great Britain will take mandatory
power over the German islands South
or the equator for Australia anCt oyer
German Southwest Africa for the Union
OF South Africa. She will also rhaye
the mandate over German East aAfsita
And some parts of Arabia, and she has
particular claims in this respect over
Mcsopotamia. Great Britain wtti en-
matter OF indemnities, especially, re-
paration for air-raid DANA ges and sii. IYfsss
ping losses. s'5t
ITALY ASKS FOR TRENTINo
AS FAR AS BRENNER PASS
Italy asks for the Trcntino as far as
the Brenner Pass. Including tie whole
OF the Southern Tyrol: Trieste, Istria,
Fiume, Zara. Sebenico. the largerapart
OF the Dnlmatian islands. Avlona and
It's hintcrland. protectorate over Al
bania, possession OF the islands in the
Aegean Sea which were taken. from
TurSey during the Tripolitan War and
England should take territory in Asia
Minor. tN'Ss'"S
The italian contention is tina. the
Dalmatian islands and such parts OF
the Dalma tian coast as are II OF ASSIGNED
to Italy shall be neutralized Should
France and England extend their co.
loninl possessions In Africa, Italy de-
sires to enlarge her possessions In
Eritrea and Tripoii.
ROUMANIA ALSO ASKS
TO RETAIN BEssAHABiS
Territorial contentious in the Ball
kans are complicated and present DIFF
RUSSIAN Bessarabia given her by the
central powers under the Cancelled
treaty of Bucharest and now In her
Southern Dobrudja az coded to her by
Bulgaria after the second Balkan war,
Possession of Bessnrahia and the Dob
rudja commands the mouth Of the Dan.
phe. 3 = <s,srt
To the westward Roumania wants to
annex the Hapsburg provinces OF Buko-
wilma and rransylvan!a. and a consid2
eraele part of the rich agricultural dis
trict OF Banat. Ii Is here that The
Rouma2ian aspirations connictsswith
those of Serbia. which affirm thatsu un-
der her war agreements with the en-
tente Serbia should have q large Dor.
t!on of Bcnat as we'll as other sections
of former Austria Hungary adjoining
old Serbia to the north to round out
the proposed JuEo-Slav state Both
Roumania and Serbia have moved &
troops into Banat to secure their claims
and French troops have established
neutral zone to prevent hostil.tieS ba-
tween them. ~ ~
SERBIA LAYS CLAIM
TO TWO PROVINCES
Serbia's Claims to take from ths
Iiapsburg monarchy the Provinces Of sgs
Bosnia and Herzegovina are opposed
by no one In the entente group. The
plans for the incorporation into Jueo-
Slavh OF the Hapsbur1 provinces Of
croatia. except as to tho coastal region ;
OF Fiume, are also Considered A. sun
teet TO the Internal decision Of filss