Evening star., 1947-01-22
Poland and Yugoslavia
Seek Big Settlements
From Reich, Austria
BY N. A.,oe;ot.d Pres.

BY fhe Assoeiuted Press
LONDON, Jan. 22.-Poland ane
Yugoslavia demanded huge set
Elements of land and money from
war-flattened Germany ano
Austria today.
Memoranda were prepared by the
two Slavic bloc states for considera.
ton by deputies of the four-powel
Foreign Ministers Council drafting
separate German and Austrian
treaties.
Poland asked for a new German
frontier running from west o1
Schweinemunde on the Baltic dowr
the west banks of the Oder anc
Neisse Rivers to Czechoslovakia.
Yugoslavia demanded sufficient
reparations from Austria to settle
war damages estimated at more
than $11 600. 900, 900.
Yugoslav claims to more thar
1000 square miles of Austrian ter
ritory were registered previously be-
fore the deputies of the four-poWel
Foreign Ministers conferring here
on German and Austrian peace
treaties.
Memorandum Presented.
The exact amount of Austrian
reparations sought was not precisely
stated, but a long memorandum
presented to the deputies detailed
vast war damages for which the
Yugoslavs said theiy were entitled
to compensation.
Austria was declared especially
responsible for much of the damage
and for a terroristic occupation ir
which tens of thousands of Yugo-
slavs were slain as hostages, de.
ported as slave laborers and perisheC
in concentration camps.
The Austrians, because of theil
geographical position, the memo
randum said, had greater interest
than the Germans in subjugatine
Yugoslavia. The memorandum
added that the proportion of Aus
trians in the armies used in the at
tack was far greater than 10 pei
cent. (which is the proportion Of
the Austrian population to the pop
ulation of Germany"
Yugoslavia's need for compensa-
ton cannot, therefore, be satisfied
by general assessment on Ger
many, the memorandum continued
1t was said that the Austrians in.
Cured a special debt toward Yugo-
slaVia.
Damages Are Estimated.
The memorandum to the deputies
stated that the War Damage Com
mission of the Federative Peoples
Republic of Yugoslavia had fixed
damages suffered by the nation as
follows:
Loss of national wealth, $7,458,
zoe, ,468.
Loss Of national income, $780,
589 ,661.
Occupation costs, $374.848,4 ,492.
Poland is now administering under
the provisional Postdam agreement
former German territory bounded
by a line from Stettin on the Baltic
down the east banks of the Oder and
Neisse to Czechoslovakia.
Wants Property Restored.
In addition to the enlarged ter
ritorial demand, the Polish memor-
andum said the MoscoW-backed re-
public wanted restitution of property
seized by the Nazis from Polish
nationals in Germany and Austria.
It included demands for:
Complete characterization of Ger
many and Austria.
Prohibition of all irredentist
and organizations inside
the two countries.
Extradition of war criminals of all
nationalities who collaborated with
the Nazis either in Germany OF
Austria.
Effective continuance of the cur.
rent Identification program.
Conclusion of a railway, air trans
port and river shipping agreement
with Germany in which Poland woule
participate no less advantageouslJ
than any other country.
Austria Held Responsible.
The Yugoslavs argued in theil
note that not all responsibility fol
war damage attached to Germany
and they demanded that Austria
assume a proper share" of the bur.
den of reconstructing the Slav re-
public.
Yrgoslav casualties were esti.
mated as: Killed, 1,236,303; dis.
abled, 275,385; arrested and dis.
placed, 765, ,138.
Austrian occupation was. particu.
larly oppressive in areas Of North.
ern Slovenia which, for admins.
trative purposes, were annexed tt
the Austrian provinces of Styris
and Carinthia, the memorandum
said.
More than 1900 people wer'
arrested in these regions in the frs
weeks of the occupation according
to lists prepared in Austria before
hand, and were sent to concentra
ton camps or expelled to Serbis
and Croatia" it said.