The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-02-05
MAKING new
MAP OF EUROPE;
Peace Conference Has Difficult
Job Reconciling Conflicting
Nations.
GREAT POWERS ADVANCE
CLAIMS FOR TERRITogy J


Continental Ambitions; Italy
Asks for Much; Balkan States
Demands Create Difficult
Problems to be Adjusted.
paris. Feb. >2-(By the Associated
press 1-The delegates OF the I'VE
great powers are now in a position 10
compare clearly their own aspirations
and those of al. their allied ffleads
and to see the differences that must
he reconciled The mixiEa1ni "l
hopes. often overlapping, has neeh
aold freely and it remains IoG The
peace conference TO adjust them aato
q coordinated whole. The desires ol
The several countries as presented
LAY be oppressed thus:
France wants first Of all.
sace-Lorraine uncosdition&Hy atd
the right to discuss and pift:1;asc.'
to fix the French frontiers IN iaa4f
:Srelatian to the Rhine winch ma f'.~
as.ire the creation OF builsr states.
one OF these would be the Palaeaate
and another Rhenish Prussia
Franc desires also TO annex INC
basin of the Sara River. which n1isn'
be called a remuneration.
France viii insist that so far as TIE
Taft bank OF the Rhine further 70 the
north is concerned the conference
should forbid military WORKS of ;t:sE
3siylsi-ittar ittar tracks, briagelleads, io1a' ;tfle'
1ortresses--in that zone. The Ieeil3lS
IS IL sat, the people lnl:ahitatine;e 8 tiiat
zone should be free TO decide Tor
themselves whether they wish 70 join
France. form an independtnt state o.
return to Germany.
The French biz for reparation IS
not YET complete, but il has been an
aounccd IN the chamber CT deputies
that It vii. be about 6s.o0o.ooo,ooV
francs.
Tne French government does rs:
ask for protectorate in Syria in th@
ordinary sense, because it considers
that the population there is TOO ed :
yanced to- make q protectorate neces-
sary, but France, on account OF her
irrational interests in this country
feels that she should be called upon
TO exercise some soit OF qua artlar'sh n u
or guidance until Syria should be fl,l-
II abb to govern herself.
Great Britain-Great Britain's dele
gafioa Believes that a society Of ma
tiens is desirable and obtainabie and
that 1t must be established by the
present peace conference. She I'D
vances no continental purposes otheT
than those of a permanent and just
peace under the principle of self
determination and that there shall be
international freedom Of transit b.:
railroads and waterways, which IS
Great Britain's general definition ol,
freedom of commerce in times o.
peace.
Great Britain will take mandator,
p.wer over the German islands south
of the equator for Australia and over
German Southwest Africa for tn
Onion Of South Africa. She Viii afse
have the mandate over German East
Africa and some parts Of Arabia and
she has particular claims in this re-
spect over aIesopotamia. Great Brit
ain will enter a pool with the other
allies IN the matter Of indemnities.
especially reparation for air raid DAM
ages and shipping losses.
Italy-Itaiy asks for tie Trentino
as far as the Brenner pass, Including
the whole Of the southern Tyroi
Trieste. Istria. Fiune, Zara, Sebinico,
the larger part Of the Dalmatian Is
lands, AvIona and its hinterland, g,
protectarate over Albania, possession
.ef. the Islands in the Aegean which
were taken from Turkey durinS the
Tripolitan war and the province Of
iAdalia if France and England ShoulH
take territory in Asia Minor.
Fhe italian contention IS that the
Dalmatian Islands and such parts Of
the Dahmatian coast as are not as
signed to Italy shall be neueraiized
Should France and England extend
their colonial possessions IN Africa.
Italy desires to enlarge her posses
sions IN Eritrea and Tripol;-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. col.ient;ons
in the Balkans are complicated ;:il;i
present difficult problems. Eoa311afljs
desires to retain POSSESSION OF taa'
portion Of Russian Bessarabia giver
her by the central powers pil;ter she
possession Roumapia also desires
southern Dopfu0}a as ce0ed TO hef bE
BGlgaria after the second !;a;i<an
war. Possession OF Eessa:ahia ;.nd
the aDobruia commands the mouth cf
the Danube.
To the westward EoG1nanist wants q
annex the HapsburS PROVINCES &C
Eukowina and Trsnsyivania anG . i
considerable part CT the ricl..st as?i
cultural distSct Of Banat. Il Is ?s...e
that the Roumaniaa asrir2.;f.::S con
Aict with those Of Serbia, psilich p
firm that uGder her war asr@@Inerez
with the entente Serbia shoGi. faS'
a large portion Of Baaat &s yo'i =
other sections of former Aue;to-iiii'.
gary ad djeining Old Serbia 70 thc north /
to round out the proposed jt$.'-sSl<'. /
state Both Rouua1ia and Se!''.!;: |
have moved troops into Sanat u Sc !
cure their claims @nd French troops !
have established = nvutr.,i z"n@ t"
prevent hostilities b&wecn then
Serbia---Serbia's s claim 70 t&Ec from .
the Hapsburg m onarchy the provinces
of Bosnia and Herzegovina ;l:'e op /