The Kendrick gazette., 1919-02-07
THAT Be
SUBMIT DEMANDS
FRANCE ASKS ALSACE-LORRAlN
BELGIUM SEEKS TO GET
PREPARATION FIRST.
SETTLEAT PEACE CONFERENCE
Britain Wants Mandatory Power Over
German South Islands, Parts Of
Africa and Arabia-ltaly De-
mands Big Chunk.

Paris.-The delegates of the five
great powers are now in position to
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 free
ly, and it remains for the peace con-
ference to adjust them into a coOrdi-
nate whole. The desires of England,
France and Belgium as presented
may be compressed thus:
Wants AIsace-Lorraine.
France-First of all France wants
Alsace-Lorraine Internationally and
the right to discuss and ultimately to
fix the French frontiers in their rela-
tion to the Rhine, which may require
the creation of buffer states. One of
these would be the Palatinate and an
other Rhenish Prussia. France de-
sires also 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 to
the north is concerned the conference
should forbid military works of any
kind, barracks, bridgeheads, forts and
fortresses, in that zone. The feeling
is that the people inhabiting that zone
should be free to decide for them
selves whether they wish to join
France, form an Independent state or
return to Germany.
The French bill for reparation is
not yet complete but it has been an
nounced in the chamber of deputies
that it will be about 66,0OO,OOO,000
francs. The French government does
not ask for a protectorate in Syria
in the ordinary sense because it con-
siders that the population there is
too advanced to make a protectorate
necessary, but France on account of
her traditional interest in that coun-
try, feels that she had been called
upon to exercise some sort of guar
dianship of guidance until Syria shall
be fully able to govern herself.
Seeks Islands South of Equator.
Great Britain-Great Britain's dele
cation believes that a society of ma
tions is desirable and obtainable and
it must be established by the present
peace congress. She advances no con-
tinental purposes other than those OF
a permanent and just peace under
the principle of self determination
and that there shall be international
freedom of transit by railroads and
waterways, which is Great Britain's
general definition of freedom of COM
merce 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 will also
have the mandate over the German
East Africa and some parts of Ara
bla and she has particular claims in
this respect over Mesopotamia. Great
Britain will enter pool with the
other allies in the matter of indemni-
ties, especially reparation for air raid
damages and shipping losses.
Wants Reparation First.
Belgium-Belgium asks that her
reparation for damages wrought by
Germany shall be the first item upon
German assets to the extent of at
least $4,000, 100000 francs, or up to a
much larger sum if Germany does not
return the machinery and the mate
r1als taken from Belgium. Belgium
believes that she should be paid first
because she was the first to be in
vaded, because her neutrality was
violated and because she has suffer
ed more from despoilation than any
other country in the war.
Asks for Trentino.
ltaly-1taly asks for the Trentino
as far as the Brenner Pass, inciud-
ing the whole of southern Tyrol:
Tr1est, Istria, Fiume, lara, Sebenico,
the larger part of the Dalmatian isl
ands, Avlona, and it's hinterland a
protectorate over Albania, possession
OF the islands in the Aegean, which
were taken from Turkey during the
lrlpol1tan war and the province of
Adalia If France and England should
take territory in Asia Minor.
The Italian contention is that the
Dalmatlan islands and such parts of
the Dalmatian coast as are not as
signed to Italy shall be neutralized,
should France and England extend
their colonial possessions in Africa,
italy desires to enlarge her posses