Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-02-03
French Aspirations May
Require Creation of
Buffer German States
Along the Rhine.
Italian Desires All Dali
matian Coast and Is
lands in Aegian Sea
Claimed by Greece.

Paris, Feb. 2.-(By The Associated
Press The delegates of the five great
powers are now in q position to compare
clearly their own aspirations and those
Of all their allied friends and to see the
differences that must be reconclied. The
maximum of hopes, often overlapping
has been told freely, and it remains for
the peace conference to adjust them into
d 30 -ordinated whole. The desires Of the
several countries as presented may be
compressed thus:
French Demands.
i7rance-First of all. France wants
Alsace- Lorraine Internationally and the
right 10 discuss and ultimately to fix the
French frontiers in their relation to the
Rhine. which may require the creation
Of buffer states. One OF these Will be
the lalatinate and another Rhenish
Prussia. France desires also to annex
the basin If the Sarre river, which might
be called Il remuneration.
France will insist that 50 far as the
left bank of the Rhine further to the
north is concerned, the conference should
forbid military works of any kind, bar
racks. bridgeheasis, forts and forLresses,
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 lnde-
pendent state or establish relations with
Germany.
Bill for Reparation.
The French government does not ask
for q protectorate in Syria III the ordin-
ary sense because ii considers that the
population there is too far advanced to
make protectorate necessary, but
of
interests In that country, feels that she
should be called upon TO exercise some
sort Of guardianship or guidance until
syrti should be fully able to govern her
self.
British Position.
Great Britain-Great Britain's delega
tion believes that n society of nations Is
desirable and obtainable and that ii must
be established by the present peace con
ference. She advances no continental
purpose other than those of permanent
and just peace under the principle OF self
determination and that there shall be in
ternational freedom Of transit BY rail
roads and waterways, which j. Great
Britan's general definition Of freedom
of commerce in time of peace.
Great Britain will take mandatory
power over the German islands south Of
the equator for Australia and over Ger
man Southwest Africa for the union Of
Sorth Africa She will also have the
mandate over German East Africa and
some parts Of Arabia and she has par
ticular claims IN TINS respect over Meso-
potamia.
Great Britain will enter a pool with
the other allies in the matter Of indem
mites, especially reparation for air raid
damages and shipping losses.
Italian Aspirations.
Italy-Italy asks for the Trentino as
far as the Rrenner pass. including the
whole Of the southern Tyrol; Trieste,
Istra. I'iume, Zara, Sebenico, the larger
part Of the Dalmatian islands, Aylona
and its hinteriand, a protectorate over
Albania, possession Of tn eislands in the
Aegean which were taken from Turkey
during the Tripofitan war and the PROV
ince of Adalia if France and England
should take territory ~ Asia Minor.
The Italian contention is that the Dai-
matian islands and such parts of the
Dalmatian coast as are not assigned to
Italy shall be neutralized Should France
and England extend their colonial pos
session in Africa, Italy desires to enlarge
her possessions in Eritrea and Tripoli
Rumania1 Claims.
Rumania-Territoria contentious in
the Balkans are complicated and present
difficult problems. Rumania desires to
retain possession of that portion of Rus,
sian Bcssarahia given her BY the central
powers under the cancelled treaty Of Ru-
chareSt and now III her possession Ru-
mania also desires southern Dobrudia, as
ccded to her by Bulgaria after the second
Balkan war Possession Of Bessarabia
and the Dobrudja commands the mouth
OF the Danube. To the westward. Ru-
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