The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-03
12O BILLIONS
is ESTIMATED
AS INDEMNITY
Due ENTENTE
Immediate Payment of Five
Billion to Be Required
Rest Payable from Is to
IS Years.
PROTECTION IS URGED
tBy Associated Press,

PARIS, March 3.-The peace con-
that 924,00O, 100000 is the amount
which the enemy countries ought to
pay the allied and associated powers,
says a Havas agency statement today.
France, the statement ADDS, demands
immediate payment by enemy of
e. 200, 100000. part in gold. part in
materials and part in foreign securi-
ties, recommending that the remain
der of the amount be payable in a
period of from % to So years.
Require Strong Barrier.
LONDON, March g. Commenting
upon the terms which Marshal Foch
will present to the Germans, the
Times says:
''They will be severe and such as
will effectively disarm the central
powers on the side nearest France
France has just right to extra mill
tary guarantees on her frontier to-
ward Germany. and these guarantees
may well have to take the form of
special territorial readjustments. In
any case, France may count on our
sympathy and assistance in obtaining
all these necessary guarantees.
But the chief weakness in the fu-
ture will be in eastern Europe and
that is why barrier of new states
to be erected between the Baltic and
Adriatic will need strengthening by
every means in our power. Although
France has particular interest in the
west front, the detection of Bolshevik
Russia makes it desirable that she
should find some substitute on the
east for her old Russian alliance, and
it must be a great joy to her people
that this substitute should take the
form of a barrier line of free peoples
'sour own position has many points
of resemblance to that of France. The
main avenues of the league of nations
communication with free peoples be-
tween the Baltic and Adriatic will be
over the sea and therefore We are
anxious about free passage into the
Baltic and also that there should be at
its eastern end friendly powers to
provide the navies of the league after
they have entered the Baltic, with re-
pairs and facilities of operation.
Protection in East
But that is not all. AS in Eastern
Europe, we hope to see barrier OF
free states erected so that England,
winch mas I0Qla 10 tUlnh Oh, may De
protected in the middle east. No one
substitute will cover all the ground
once occupied by the Ottoman en-
pire. Its old functions will have to
be divided between new Arabia. new
Armenia, and new Palestine. This is
why the question of Syria is SO i'm
portant to us.
France has a right to the best from
tiers possible on the side of Germany,
and we have a similar right in the
middle east, for it is not our way 10
keep huge armies garrisoning from
tiers. Our way is to diminish our mil
itary liabilities by a system of buffer
states.
''Our position in Egypt gives us es-
pecial interest in the future of Pales-
tine and the same applies to Arabia
Such conditions as there are not In
consistent with the principles of the
league of nations. On the contrary,
the nearer an ideal carries its head
to the clouds, the more firmly must
its feet be planted on solid ground.
The Times concludes by speaking
of the value of American support, say
ing: "We want all the assistance she
can see it in her way to give"