The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-06
LOSSES SUFFERED BY GERMANY IN
 WORLD CONFLICT
THE CENTRAL POWERS
 GerInanY

Germany's losses the west, as outlined by the Peace Treaty, consist of the Alsace-Lorraine territory and the Saar coal mines. She must also give full recognition to the Belgian claim of Moresnet. To Poland on the east, Germany is required to cede the greater part of Upper Silesia, Posen and the province of West Prussia on the left bank of the Vistula, while in regard to East Prussia, which be- comes a German island, surrounded by Polish territory, a plebiscite is to determine the ultimate frontier. Danzig and the district adjacent thereto is to be constituted into the Free State of Danzig' under the guaranty of the League of Nations, but to be included within the Polish customs frontier, and Poland is to have the use of the city's docks and waterways. Germany must also con- cede to Poland the privilege of rail- road communication .Lcross German territory to Danzig, and Poland must in turn grant similar privileges to Germany across the Polish territory between East Prussia and Germany. On the northwest the people of North Schleswig and those of part of Cen tral SchlesWig are to be given the privilege of determining the return of their territory to Denmark or the retention of German control and the Qualifications of Heligoland are to be destroyed. Parts of the Elbe, Dan ube, Oder, and Nieman rivers are to be internationa1ized, and the Kiel Canal is to be opened to the ner- chant shipping of all nations at peace with Germany. She is also required to lease to the Republic of Czecho- Cy1<rr lrt@ R@. tain areas in the harbors of Ham, burg and Settin ,as free zones. As guarantee for the execution of the treaty, the German territory west of the Rhine, together with the bridge heads, is to be occupied by the Allied and associated troops for Is years. Attention was given by Great Britain and France to the German territories in Africa, which aggregated about 950,000 square miles, with a popula- tion of approximately 11,000,000. Togo lying on the west coast between the British colony of Gold Coast and the French colony of Dahomey, was jointly taken by the British and administration divided between the Governments of the British and French colonies adjacent, and is now governed by a Commission appointed by the Allied Commanders. German Southwest Africa was promptly in vaded by troops from the adjoining colony of British South Africa and was conquered in July, 1915, and placed under the control of the Gov ernment of the South African Union, a British colony. Kamerun, also on the west coast, between British Mi geria and French Congo, was con- quered by British and French troops in cooperation, and in February, 1916, 8 part of its area was placed under the Government of British, Nigeria and the remainder under that of French Equatorial Africa Ger man East Africa, the most important of the German possessions in that continent, was invaded by Great Brit ain in the early part of the war and it's conquest completed in 1918, and the Peace Conference at Paris de- cided that the mandate" for it's government should be held by Great Britain. The control of British East Africa and Egypt by Great Britain gives that country from the Mediter- ranean at the north to Cape Town at the south. In the Pacific, the German possessions of Kaiser Will helm Land. the Bismarck Archipel-
 
 and Nauru were occupied by Aus tralian troops. and the German Sa- moan Islands by British troops, and all remain under Brkish military occupation. Germany's losses of area are in general terms: to France, about 5000 square miles and 2,0O0,- 900 people; to Poland, 30,000 square miles and 6.o00,o00 people. She loses about Is per cent of her former area and about 10 per cent of her population, to say nothing of the loss of the Saar coal mines or of her colo nies and dependencies in Africa and Asia, with an area of about 1,0oo,- 900 square miles and a population of | about 12,000,000. The new form of government Is a republic, with 8 President to be elected by the whole l German people for a term of seven 1 years.
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