Republican farmer., 1920-01-09
LOSSES SUFFERED BY GERMANY IN
 WORLD CONFLICT
THE CENTRAL POWERS
 Germany

German ny's losses on 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 p1ebiscite 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 ucross 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 a part of Cen traI Schleswig are to be given the l privilege of determining the return of ] their territory to Denmark or the l retention of German control and the | Notifications of Heligoland are to be | destroyed. Parts of the Elbe, Dan l ube, Oder, and Nieman rivers are to | be internationalized, and the Kiel l Canal is to be opened to the mer- chant shipping of all nations at peace I with Germany. She Is also required l to lease to the Republic of Czecho- | Slovakia for a period of 9s years cer- l tain areas in the harbors of Ham 1 burg and Settfn 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 15 years.
 Attention was given by Great Britain
 and France to the German territories
 in Africa, which aggregated about | S3o, ,o00 square miles. with a popula- 1 ton of approximately 11,00o, 900. Togo lying on the west coast between the
 British colony of Gold Coast and the French colony 7 of Dahomey. was
 Jointly taken by the British and
 French troops in August 1914 and the
 administration divided between the
 Governments of the British and . French colonies adjacent. and is now l governed by a Commission appointed
 by the Allied Commanders. German ,t Southwest Africa was promptly i'm
 vaded by troops from the adjoining
 colony of British South Africa and
 was conquered in July, 1915, and ernment of the South African Union :. & British colony. Kamerun, also on . 1 the west coast, between British Mi geria and French Congo, was con- 0 quered by British and French troops | in cooperation, and in February
 1e16, part of it's area was placed
 under the Government of British
 Nigeria and the remainder under that ), of French Equatorial Africa. Ger n man East Africa, the most important
 of the German possessions in that e continent. was invaded by Great Brit. n ain in the early part of the war ana
 its conquest completed in 1918, ant
 the Peace Conference at Paris de
 cided that the mandate" for it: government should be held by Grea e Britain. The control of British Eas
 Africa and Egypt by Great Britain
 gives that country from the Mediter l. ranean at the north to Cape Tow
 at the south. In the Pacific, tn, l. German possessions of Kaiser Will " helm Land. the Bismarck Archipel ., ago. the German Solomon Islands q and Nauru were occupied by Aus
 tralian troops. and the German Sa
 moan Islands by British troops, an, ,- all remain under British militar,
 occupation. Germany's losses o
 area are in general terms: to France q about 6,o0o square miles and 2.0o0,
 900 people; to Poland, So,0oo squar e miles and 6,0oo.o0o people. Sh l. loses about 15 per cent of her forme . area and about 10 per cent of he l. population, to say nothing of the los # of the Saar coal mines or of her colo
 nies and dependencies in Africa an
 Asia, with an area of about 1000
 900 square miles and a population c
 about 12.000.0oo. The new form c
 government is a republic. with g President to be elected by the whol
 German people for a term of seve
 years.