The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03


 The French government does not ask for a professionals in Syria in the or dinary sense, because 1t considers that the population there is too advanced to make protectorate necessary, but France, on account of her traditional interest in that country, feels that she should be called upon to exerclse some sort of guardianship or, guidance until Syria should be fully able to govern herself.
 GREAT BRITAIN s Great Britain's delegation believes that a society of nations is desirable and obtainable and that 1t must be es- tablished by the present peace confer ence. She advances no continental purposes other than those of a per- manent and just peace under the prin- ciple of elf-determination and that there shall be international 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 VIII also 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 en- ter pool with the other allies in the matter of indemnities. Especially rep aration for air raid damages and ship ping losses.
 ITALY
 Italy asks for the Trentino as far as the Brenner pass. including the whole of southern Tyrol; Trieste, Istria, Plume, Zara, Sebenico, the larger part of the Delmation Islands, Avolna and it's hinterland, a protectorate over Ali bania, possession of the islands in the Aegean sea 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 Dalmation coast as are not assigned to Italy shall be neutralized. Should France and England extend their colo nial possessions in Africa Italy desires to enlarge her possessions in Eritrea and Tripoli.
 RUMANIA
 Territorial contentious in the Balkans are Complicated and present difficult pro- blemsSs Rumania desires to retain pos session of that portion of Russian Bes- sarabia given her by the central powers under the cancelled treaty of Bucharest and now in her possession. Rumania also desires southern Dobrudja as ceded to her by Bulgaria after the second Bal kan war Possession of Bessarabia anta and Dobrudja commands the mouth of the Danube.
 To the westward Rumania wants to an mex the Hapsburg provinces of Buko- wina and Pennsylvania and a considera- ble part of the rich agricultural district ~f tc hnro hot ha riq aspirations conflict with those of Serbia. which affirm that under her war agree ments with the entente Serbia should have a large portion of Banat as we'll as other sections of former Austria Hun gary adjoining old Serbia to the north to round out the proposed Jugo-Slav state. Both Rumania and Serbia have moved troops into Banat to secure their claims and French troops have established "a neutral zone to prevent hostilities be- tween them.
 SERBIA
 Serbia's claim to take from the Haps- burg monarchy the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina are opposed to no one in the entente group. The plans for the incorporation into Jugo- Slavia of the Hapsburg provice of Crotia, except as to the coastal region of Plume are also con- Dtdered as subject 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 ot Plume and the Croatian seaboard along with the islands of Dalmatia and Alban- ia. The union of Montenegro and Serbia as part of greater Jugo-Slav states has been voted by the Montenegrin Par liament but the faction representing King Nicholas and his adherents protests against a union which shall not leave to Montenegro entire local self-govern- ment. There is also conflict btween the plans of Jugo-Slav statesmen and those of Czecho- Slovakia who desire wide corridor from Bohemia to the Adriatic to Hungary and Croatia to secure all -- outlet to the sea
 GREECE
 Greece wishes northern Epirius anc Thrace' with the exception of Constants nople and the shores of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. which Premier Venizelos wished to place under interna- tional control Greece asks for the Villa yet of Smyrna in Asia Minor and the former Turkish islands in the eastern Mediterranean including those known as the Dodecanesus, and claimed by Italy.
 BULGARIA
 Although Bulgaria capitulated without conditions and her future territories de- pend upon the conquerors, her govern ment has not abandoned hope of adding extensive territories and even hopes to receive extensions of the Bulgarian from tier in Macedonia along the Aegean coast and Thrace.
 CZECHO-SLOVAkIA
 The new state of Czecho- Slovakia is carving out it's territories almost en- ! tirely at the expense of the old Austria