Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-03

Paris, Feb, . (by The Associated
Press. )--The delegates of the five
great powers are now in a position
to compare clearly tHeir own aspira-
tions and those of all their allied
friends and to see the differences
that must be reconciled. The maxi
mum of hopes, often overlapping,
has been told freely and it remains
for the peace conference to adjust
them into co-ordinated whole. The
desires of the several countries as
presented may be compressed thus
France France wants, first Of all.
Alsace- Lorraine unconditionally, and
the right to discuss and ultimately 10
fix the French frontiers in their re-
lation to the Rhine, which may re-
auire the creation of buffer states
one of these would be the Palatinate
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 to the
i 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 inhahiting
that zone should be free to decide for
themselves 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 viii be about G6,000,0 900, 900
francs.
The French government does not
ask for a protectorate in Syria in the
ordinary sense because it considers
that the population there is too adj
vanced to make a protectorate no
cessary, but France, on account of
her traditional interests in that coun-
try feels that she should be called
upon to exercise some sort of guard
ianship or guidance until Syria should
be fully able to govern itself.
Britain For Society of Nations.
Great Britain: Great Britain's deie-
cation believes that a society of ma
tons is desirable and obtainahle and
that it must be established by the
present peace conference. She ad-
vances no continental purposes other
than those of permanent and just
termination and that there shall be
international freedom of transit by
railroads and waterways, which is
Great Britain's general definition of
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 will also
have the mandate over German East
Africa and some parts of Arabia and
she has particular claims in this re-
spect over Mesopotamia. Great Bri-
tain will enter a pool with the other
allies in the matter of indemnities,
especially reparation for air raid
damages and shipping losses.
Italy: Italy asks for the Trentino
as far as the Brenner Pass, including
the whole of Southern Tyrol. Trieste,
Istria, Fiume, Zara, Sebenico, the
larger part of the Dalmatian Islands,
ANlona and ITS hinterland a protecto-
rate over Albania. possession of the
islands in the Aegean which Were
taken from Turkey during the Tri-
politan war and the province of
Adalia if France and England should
take territory i'm Asia minor.
The italian contention is that the
Dalmatian islands and such parts of
the Dalmatian coast as are not as