Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-15
DESIRES Of VARIOUS
NATIONS OUTLINED
DELEGATES OF FIVE GREAT POW
E1s COMPARE ASPIRATIONS
WITH THOSE OF FRIENDS.
Problem Shows Many Mixed Phases,
but Il Is Evident Heavy lndemnities
Will Be Demanded and Oivi-
sion Of Territory Expected.

Paris.-The delegates of the tve
great powers are now in a position 10
compare clearly their own aspirations
and those of all their allied friends
and to see the differences that must
be reconciled. The maximum of hopes,
often overlapping. has been told freely
and ii remains for the peace confer
ence to adjust them into & ce-Ordinated
whole.
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 ere
alton of buffer states one of these
would be the Palatlnate and another
RheniSh prussia France also desires
to annex the basin of the Sarre river,
which might be called a remuneration.
France will insist that, SO far as the
left bank of the Rhine further 10 the
north is concerned. the conference
should forbid military works Of any
knd-barracks, bridgeheadS. forts and
is that the people inhabitins that zone
should be free to decide for themselves
Whe.Icr they wish to join France.
form an Independent state. or return
to Germany.
The French bill for reparation Is not
yet complete. but 1t has been an
nounced in the chamber Of deputies
that ii will be about 66.00O.o00,000
francs.
Great Britains delegation believes
that society of nations is desirable
and obtainable and that IL must be
established by the present peace con
ference. She advances no continental
purposes other than those of a perma-
nent and just peace under the prin-
ciple of Self-determinatiOn and that
there shall be international freedom
of transit by railroads and waterways.
which is Great Britains general def
milton of freedom Of commerce In
times of peace.
Great Britain will fake mandatory
power over the German islands south
of the equator for Australia and over
German Southwest Africa for the
Union OF South Africa She will also
have the mandate over German Eas;
Africa and some parts of Arabia, and
she has particular claims in this re-
spect over Mesopotamia. Great Brit
ain will enter a pool with the other
allies in the matter of indemnities. es-
pecially reparation for air raid dam
ages and shipping losses
Belgium asks that her reparat;sn
| for damages wrought by Germany
shall be the first lien upon German
assets to the extent of at least 15,-
0OO,OOOWO francs or up TO a much
larger sum if Germany does not re-
turn the machinery and the materials
taken from Belgium. Belgium believes
that she should he paid first, because
she was the first 10 be invaded. be-
cause she has suffered more from
despoliation than any other country
in the war.
| Italy asks for the Trentino as far
as the. Bremen pass, including the
fwhole of southern Tyrol Trest, Istria
! Flume. cara, Sebenico. the larger part
of the Dalmatian islands. Avlona and
its hinterland, a proteetorate over Al
bania, possession of the islands in the
Aegean which were taken from Tur.
key during the Tripolitan war and the
province of Adalia if France and Eng
land should take territory in Asia
Minor.
Territorial contentious in the Bal.
kans are complicated and present diff
fcult problems. Rumania desires to
retain possession of that portion of
Russian Bessaraba given her by the
central powers under the Cancelled
treaty Of Bucharest and now in her
possession.
All the other nations who have
fought for world freedom have their
demands. which will be considered by
the peace congress.