Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-02-06
Peace Meeting Has Problem Of
Adjusting Conflicting De-
mands for Land.
PLAN POOL Of INDEMNITIEs
Universal Tax Proposed by italian
Delegate to Aid in cancelino Huge
War Debts-Wouid Make
Central Powers Pay.

ds pteSenIeu may De Drie1y stated
thus:
7. France for Lands and Damages.
Z, France wants, first of all, Alsace-
Lorraine Internationally, and the right
to discuss and ultimately to fix the
French frontiers in their relation to
the Rhine. which may require the Gre
alton of buffer states
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 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 Germany
The French bill for reparatiOn is not
complete, but it has been announced
in the chamber Of deputies that 1t
will be about &C. .OOO, 100000 francs
($13, 200, 600 O0O).
Britain, for World League.
Great Britain's delegation believes
that society of nations Is desirable
and attainable and that IT must be
established by the present peace con-
ference s
Great Britain will take mandatory
power over the German islands south
OF the equator for Australia and over
German southwest Africa for the
5Unipnso SoAtsss efraca. seShe 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.
Italy Wants isles and seaeoast.
Italy asks for the Trentino as far
as the Bremen pass, including the
whole Of the southern Tyrol; Trieste,
Istria, Fiume, Zara, Sebenico, the lar
ger part Of the Dalmatian islands,
Avlonay and its htnterla4dS protec-
torate over Albania. possession of the
islands in the Aegean.
Roum1nia Asks Russian Land.
Roumania wants that portion Of
Russian Bessarabia given her by the
central powers under the Cancelled
treaty of Bucharest.
Serbia's claims to take from the
Hapsburg monarchy the provinces of
Bosnia and Herzegovina are opposed
By no one in the entente group
Greece wishes northern Epirus and
Thrace, with Constantinople, the Bos-
porus and Dardanelles under fnterna-
tiOnal control. Greece asks for the
villayet Of Smyrna in Asia Minor and
the former Turkish islands in the east
ern Mediterranean, including the Dode-
sanesuS claimed by Italy.
Poles and cxechs' Claims.
The new state of Czecho-Slovakiu is
carving out ITS territories almost en-
tirely ut the expense OF the old Aus.
tria- Hungary. Bohemia. Moravia and
the Sloyak regions of northern Hum
gary have been incorporated into the,
proposed State, but there are conflicts
with the Poles, Ruthenians, Rouman-
ians, Germans, Austrians and Mag
vars because the CzecIs claim parts
of SaXOny and German Silesia belong
ethnogrdplically to the new state.
Belgium Demands German Money.
Belgium wants her reparation claim
to be the first lien upon German assets
to the extent Of at least $4,000, 0,0OOOO
and have Germany return her stolen
machinery and materials.
Japan and China Revea, Stand.
Japan offers to return Tsingtau to
China. retaining certain former Ger
man concessions on the Shantung ne
ninsula.
She desires to retain Germany's Pa
cific. islands north of the equator
China waits a guarantee against
foreign imperialism or aggression, abo-
liti0n of consular rights" and for the
return of Kiauchau.
Plan Pool Of lndemnities.
Proposals for the establishment Of
q single financial front for the allies
have been submitted to the entente
ministers here by Sig. Crespi, mensber
of the Italian delegation. according TO
statement made by him yesterday.
After saying, that the central powers
must compensate the allies for the
damage suffered during the war, Crespi
said
"On the other hapd. all the allies
have suffered immense losses and they
must all benefit from the indemnities
which the enemy is to pay. Each one
should receive in proportion to, the eff
fort 1t mas made.
"The simplest way to carry out the
actual distribution would be to bur
the entire fund into common spool,
which could be apportioned periodically
among the different nations. The fund
should be augmented by taxes of a uni
versal character, levied on all states,
enemy, allied or neutral, the last nam
ed having benefited from the sacrifices
made By the allies. Such taxes might
be leviedsson exports and imports and
also on coal and raw materials.