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.? ..v.-. A-.. ' :W *i ?4rri?*i> ;>?? --*? * - ?' r* V: " ? ?/#v ?k'?M NUMBER 43 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA.' FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 7, >????? )j|!S OF HONOR GIVEN SOUTH CAROLINIANS ? * Lmto hovs win THK n.\ <riuvs JIIUIIKHT 1>^( OIC \HON _ EpUIAlV < 01 vr\ HAN DNIQ1 i: UriNCliON OF IIAV(N<j TWO | T UK UST. Viv1' .. ' x?. ' Krwhwitou, Fob. 4. ? The award of lyvuf epn^rwrtionwl medals of honor, Eft*'* highest military defloration, K prfviou.sly. li 'id . hero given to only /or M-i viov. in# the great war, WiBDOUDc-ed today- by the War IK ?L^. Two list* of award* wnn is t oud bearing the name* <* two E*r? and nineteen enlisted *men, and Etflpr thosrt of six officer* and four* I eolUterl men. E|l thr* award* n**e upon iccom Ljjtionx by (Jen. Pershing. By act | Congress the medial can be given L for "conapiciouH. gallantry and in* E^dity above and beyond the call of Cin action." ?guy distinguished service crossos lor l^ntry in action, and dfetfagulshed Ej ? medal.-* given for eoospidou* aer I of any character in connection with ? amy, have been awarded hereto |t tat tbe wearers of the of Eraiurtftntes a special roll of honor, (onto with it gratitude# and certain KfaTcnwB and diHt^njpxfehed service Ld ran be awarded* by any indepeud ?teApmander in the field. The medal Ikonor i* given by the Secretary of Br cn the recommendation of the mil K (txnnjau(]or. suc^ reooftimeftdtftfgW. ?previewed by a board of officers to pt certain that au unusual ? act of is ooiDiii cmoratadv ?; ;8?mo of the decorations wore uward pwthuinously. won by men wbo lost lives .in heroic acts. The. com* list of thf thirtf-one follows : ? % Corpora! James I*>.' Herlot deceased) HuTkim-c. 8. (Company T, 118! h far, wbo. with four comrades, at an enemy machine gun nest and ? hit. sfiuiid was dispersed charted ? with fixed bayonet for thirty yard# i forced the enemy to surrender, fe Ertait several wounds. I^ater on the day he charged another machine ??t and was killed. . |FiM Lieut. James O. I>osier, * llock K. Company G, 118th infantry Bl&irtieth dlvisiioQ ) who advanced with soldier, although .painfully wound-, to attack o machine gun . crew with < gmiades when' hiR two1 platoons i held up by the enemy lire. ptr*t. Richmond H. Hilton. West Company M, 118th infantry, attacked an enemy machine gun rifle' mid \>isU>l when. hi* company linked and killed six and captur Wo( the enemy. HHt6H*R nrm was >ff by a shell. m. Garey Kvan^t Foster, Inman, 1 18th Infantry, who attacked ne gun nest withi hand grenades pistol, unaided, killing several and ?ring eighteen. ??iporal John < '. Villepigue, Camden, H* Company M. 118th infantry, wKfl> ^tinned Without aid on a scouting of 800 yards in advance of tis pl? c tffer htx three comrade.* had been d or wounded. He billed four of |W?y with hand grenades , and la iTwbed a machine gun neat and killed ] J* tad captured six of tbo craw and ^ht machine guns, although se lf wounded in the arm. Jfafc Robe if. I,. Bla?li well, (de ft bundles. X, C? Company K, infantry. (Thirtieth Division), Pioluat^red tn curry U' WBW Itotoon wa<5 almost surrounded by and was killed in the at k . > , . 1** (,alvin John Ward, Morris* (-*DlP*ny D, 117th infan ,J^"Mirllj '^vision,) who captured M?<krae KUn nest, killing three and !?"'** fievr? of the crew, and their V * cTV V C. Katz, Xan Fruneisoo, y 3fl3rd infantry* who ft-, w^? his company had retired mKlH? <0 * wounded comrade. I llU Arf,hi,k A" P#>ok' Homell, N. **wued two cprarades wound *tn>| dutr. twicr crossing through ?aehine fun fire to reach them. Wilbur H Colyer (deceased) f I., Company A, First who volunteered with twe *Wier? u tm-atf maehinr ' rrn ^u?d a German fnn and torn ** ?e*ta all which, ware L ?* ?ther [' was killed 111 action later. ] Ktreellu* H. Chiles, (deceased) Cd.. wha lad the WfitfHee forward agaiiMt a machine 1 rwl the enasay, 1 hi* kinU to foflew* Wtrta. U m N, Fnwk, Ca??*. "I'd Clwnl.^ |) HuVK?>|', Slut l < ' U v \\? for rescuing wounded %K> yards in front <d ttyt American liwv making (wo trip* us stretcher-bearer*. under machine kum Hrc. Hergl. Iteldnr Walker, m. add?vs?. Company A. 105th machine gun batal* Hon (Twenty-seventh dlv4*lon, .Now York.) for rcM-uing two wouivlod uieu froiu ? burning HfJtUh tank, under ?r tlllwy and machine gun fire. Hergt. Alan i/ouis Egger*, Summit, N. .1., and John Cridlaud Lathau, near est orf kin rcwidfug at Westmorelaud, England, machine gun ?>mpany, 107th infantry JTwentyrSeventh division and Corporal Thomas K. O'Shea, Summit, N. 4., -for rescuing an officer and two men from a damaged American tank, and by means of the machine gun from the tank standing off the enemy all day, from h shell hole within the enemy liues Corporal O'Shea died of wounds. Sergt. James I. Mestrovlth, Fresno, /CaJ? for rescuing his wounded company commander thirty yards in front of the lino. He has died since. Private Frank, fftiffney. Locki?ort, NT. V., for going forward aloue with an automatic rifle, when all other mem ber* of his squad had been killed, at taching and capturing an enemy ma chine gun, killing the crew, hombinp several dug-outs and killing four of the enemy with pistol fire, when reinforce ment* came on. eighty prisoners were captnrwr.? ~ ~ Sergt. Harold 1. ,).>hustou. Denver, and private David If. Barkeley, Sau Antonio, Texas, Company A 356th in faintry (Eighty-nUitli division,) for swim ming the Mmise river to obtain informa tion as to tho enemy's position on the Opposite bank. _ fllieut. flol, Emery J, jPikc, Dos Moines towa, division machine gun officer, S3rd diyision, who died of wounds, eolleeted twenty men of scattered infantry units during an advance and later assembled sl*veral platoons and established a line overcoming disorganization so that the position could b* held. He was wounded by shell tire, while going to the assist ance of one. of his outposts who had Wn vfounded. v- First Lieut. Oeorge S. ltobb, Salina, Kans., 369th infantry, held his position on the front line all night although severely wounded twice and although wounded twico again, the following dajr assumed command when his captain and 'company officers were killed^- and by flanking the town of Scchauft with ma chine guns aided his batallion in holdi ing it. . ? / Capt. Edward C. Allwortb, Crawlffrd, Wash,. 60th infantry, swam the canal of the Meuse to lead the advance when artillery had destroyed the bridge while a company was crossing. Under his per son*! leadership the enemy was thrown back out of macblue gun nests and one hundred prisoners' taken by Allworth's handful of troops, paving the way for a larger advance. I^eut, Harold A. Furlong, Detroit, 353rd infantry, who captured four ma chine ?un nests single-handed and brought twenty prisoners when his com pany had been held up by . machine gun fire. Private John J. Kelly, Chicago. 78th company. Sixth regiment, marine corps, ran oho hundVed yards through the American barrage to attack a machine gun nest, killing the gunner and one of the jrew and returning through the bar rage with eight prisoner*. Corporal Harold W. Roberts, - San Praneiwo, gave his life when the tank he tofis driving slipped into a water- filled shell hole and knowing that but one of the two-man crew could escape, Rob erts pushed his companion out, saying: "Well, onl^\one of us can get out nod out you go." Sergt. William Saielson, Harrison, N." J., Company M, 312th infantry, carried water to a wounded man and was killed by machine gun bullets while attempting a second trip. Second Lieut. J. H outer Wickers ham, Denier, 053rd infantry, ardeted and led an advance of fete platoon after his right arm fend been orfppled by shell fragments and continued firing his re volver. with his left hand until he fell from loss of blood. He died before atfi could reach him. I First Lieut. Samuel Woodfill, Fart Thomas, Ky.. 00th infantry, personally captured three machine ftia nests, ene after the other, killing or capturing their crews. As he was about to jua^p into the third aest with his retolvar two Germans in a nearby rtfcst turasfi their maebiae gna on him Missing theni With his revolver he grabbed a pick and killed them both. *"? Private Xelwold Mcintosh, Minn., 138th infantry, captared a maebine gan neat and eleven prisoners and later raa cued a asmrade, about to W ahot by ?0 O a mi an cMmr whom NdvoM killed* Nelawold -was himself killed whit* rush ing ? fifth machiaa gv? neat [ ffer*t. Ueyd M. WbA*, Saliaa, Cal., &J. (Ceatfanei oa page fear) H. J, T. YOt NO l>RAf> l,?arge IManter of (lie DaUcll HectiM I Med Monday Afternoon. Mr, s. J, v. Young, one of the j^arge farmers of the Dalsell neighborhood. ?l i ??? I ai hi* residence there hint Monday af ternoon at four nVlock. The fuueral service* wort1 Mil iu the Horob Bap tist Church ttud the iutermeut whs mad* in that church yard, aiul wore oonduct ed by bin former pastor, Rev. W. J. Wilder, who ix gggg looted at Nichols, 8. O. Mr. Young w?i? in his T4th year and was a native of Kerahaw county, whew bo resided until about fifteen years ago when he moved to California and reald od there three year* when be returned ami settled uear Dalxell in this county, where he resided sotil bin death, About forty-five yearn ago he married Miss I.onisu Ix>ve of . Kershaw county, wbo preceded hiiu about seven. yeara ago. Of this union there was no issue. For many years he baa been n mem ber of the Horob Baptist Ohureh wherei ho always took great interest iu the work] of the Ohurch. He was also a Jlason, bidding his membership at Westville, iu Kershaw county. For several years he has been a victim of heart trouble and utao a arufferer from I frights disoMse which caused bill death. ?Hurviviug him is one sister, Mrs. .0* H. -Bradley, of Lancaster county : and" three brothers, Messrs. T. Ia Young of ftpartanburg, W. J. Young of Westvllls, aud A. B. Young of Sunvte*. He left an eatate estimated by sotne to be worth in the neighborhood of $100,000.-- Sum ter Herald. v, Met With Another Acciiknt. ' Mr. Joseph H. Struck, who has been -w*t-h- the Southern Itailway for a num ber of year*, mat with another painful aud Korio\i? accideut early last Satur day morning in the yards of the* old Southern depot in this city. Ho wan on t lie top of a judder of a moving freight train when it sTftirk another car on a sid+ng. The blow -lguoe^ed him off, in flicting a severe gash in his forehead' and breaking three ribs. The accident] occurred iir the. early morning hours and it is thought the, car on the siding was not clear of, the main line. While a serious and painful accident it Is thought .Mr. Struck is out of danger. It will bo remembered thrf^he suffered a serious and painful accident about one yeur ago at Lancaster when he had his jnw bone fractured. His friends sympathize with him in his misfortune. cv IP ' Death of Mrs. Wilson. ' Mrs. Daisey Ann Wilson, a wcJl known and highly respected citiBcn of the Antioch section died Saturday last and was buried on Sunday at Antioch Baptist Church after funeral services con ducted by Rev. I. B. Shiver, of Rock Hill. She leaver one little girL three years of age, her father, O. B. Brown ; stepmother, Delia V. Brown two ' sis ters, Addie Brown. Mrs. H. H. Watkins, of McBee; T L. Brown XL O. Brown, of Lucknow. Her husband died last May with heart trouble Mrs, Wilson was 34 years of age. Special Meeting. Rising Star Chapter No. 4 will hold a special meeting Friday evening. Feb ruary 7, at eight o'clock. The past master and most excellent degrees will be conferred. All member* and rt?lttng brethren are cordially invited. Has Footer's Agency. By ? reference to the advertisement! found in another place will be .seen that Ferris McDowell has the agency fori Footer'a DyeNWorirs, of Cumberland, Md. This is i^cogmaefl as one of the! , largest, concern* oflthis kind iu the world and they handle ntis garment that can! be made over. If X>u hare a garment! needing., Repairs or dyeing* let Footer's do ft for you." ? \ t ? ? . ' .Service* iii. the CulhoUt Church. Mass 6:1ft a. m. ; high mass and ser-j irton 11 a. m.j Sunday School 10 :15 a.| | m. ; Rosary, sermon and benediction 87861 [p. m. The public is cordially invited to | attend these services, n? Itiliifci fW Nitrate. Dr. Walter Sorrell, county farm dcm-l ohstration agent relocate , u" to- publish I the following for the information of those who have not iled applications for nitrate : ?Our circular letter of December 28,1 1018, sUted that all appllcationa for nitrate of soda most be filed on or before January 25, 1916. In rfew of the fact that many farmer* who desire nitrate hare not had an opportunity to file their applications, and that county agents in many counties hare been unableto-gtrel the necem? publicity to Government distribution of nitrate it has been de cided to extend the time for receiving applications to February 16, 1616. It! is desired that not** of tbhi extension of time be brought to the ette?Cteft?* all farmers ia your county -who here not filed applications for nitrate or who ?? piitAue iaffltiwul q... * " - *. . I Mi hoy rnciik kill ( Ideuteiinnt Met Death OH ll.it tie Held of IVunee October 20th. K 1 ' _ ? A iu from the Wur Mepiffitinent received Tin-Mla\ l>.v his father brought the belated down tblt Lieutenant Jaines l<oroy llelk, of Camden. bad been killed fit action, on October ?0, in Franco. Lieutenant Hoik whk 20 years of Mgt mid udtb the of Mr. J- H- a prominent Itunber dealer of <'amden. I|t was horn jn Lancaster <V>uuty but bud mad? hia homo in Camden for a number of ye^m. Before going to the Mexican border with Company M, of Camden, be wn* a Southern Railway employe. After ret uruiug from the oorder be volunteered with hit* company and wa? trained at Camp floyier, and Ifeft Hevler as a ser geant. After reaching France he enter ed a Ma in lug ^school and was commit* tdoncd * lieutenant. After receiving hi.n commission he was ussigued the Third I>iviNlon aud it wuh while tigbting with this division be made the ?t*prrtne aacritlee. No detaila of where he met death were glveu. His father bad uot heard from bis life sev eral month* and bad given hitn up as lost, long ago, an he had been writing borne regularly. Mr. Itelk was in Wanb higtou trying to learn news of hi* sou when the trar department's' message canoe. The young lieutenant was very 'among'* bin comrades as ' well as with acquaintance* in, Cmndeu. He is suVvivatf by his father, and one brother, John Ilelk, and two sister* ? Mr*. Mihnie Troyior ahd Miss Annie Mae Belk, both ; itf this e41v. I _~b '.t ? ' ? Clemson Nrara Letter. <!lep?son College, Feb. 8. ? To meet the i-Vi >! ai jT rig demand for inform a-"] tlon ou tobacco growing iu this state, the ICxtouxion Service of Clemson Col* lege ha# jjust insued a., bulletin entitled "Tobacco' | Culture in South Carolina^ The publication treats tobacco from tho s^ed^^bed # to the market-place, dealing with types of soil, preparation, trans planting aj^d-sftiltfrfration, topping and flickering, insectes anil diseases, harvest- 1 ing, bariisv, curing, and storage, con tains also drawing showing plann ;in<l bills of materials for tobacco barns. . .The bulletin is written by Miv It. JBL Currin,*, Superintendent. of the. Pee Dee Experiment.. HtaUon, who is a tobacco grower of long and varied experience. It is free for the asking and should be in the hands of the hundreds of farmers who are now turning to tobacco growing. Write for Rxtension Bulletin 40, "Tobacj co Culture in Bouth (Carolina.1' ^ * ' . ? ? ? /v" ? mt li I New Advertisers. Thin paper is carrying a number of J n??w advertisements this week brought in junt' before we went to press. ,yhey are all reliable dealers and the attention of our readers in called to these new ad vertisers. - rr > r . r- i-- .. Itarueh as Delegate. (By Wireless to the New York Times) Paris, Jau. JK).? The. plan of President! fWiison .to have Secretary Baker substi tute for him as Peace Commissioner dnr ing his absence iu the United States has been changed. Secretary Baker is' not, coining to France for this purpose. It is xuggested tbut Bernard M. Ba Tiich may substitute for the President1 dur ng his brief absence home. : - ImU of Jifew Subscribers, The Chronicle for the past few months has been adding new subscribers at the rate of fifteen or more per wedk. Many of our subscribers are also starting the! year rfght by paying for their paper in advance ; ? -- On Charge of Vagrancy. - James McGirt, the negro who ha* br.e.u in jail on more different charges than probably any other citixen of the county, waa arrested last Saturday on the charge of vagrancy. The arrest . waa made by the city police. Bond waff' granted him fa the sum vf fflftfr, which the Uegro promptly furnished from a rbll of f 1200 he had on his person at the .tfcne of his arrest McGlrt has em ployed counsel and the case is set for a bearing before the Recorder at an early date. Only last week the police oissefl up a pool room fn which KeGirt had an Interest. Death of Mr. Charlie Davis. * Mr. Charles tL Davis, a welt known citizen of the Aatioch section died last Kriday from pneumonia following influ enza. ' Mr. Davis waa the father of Mr. I?ee Davis, wbo whk hia father and aw other brother formerly conducted a gro cery store fn one of the Dibble buildings a^faw year* agn, He waa of a. Jolly, jorrial disposition and had many friends tbroaflfctat the eounty. Mr. Davis waa proir?inmtly5#inArt?>d with tlM fratSTW^ orders lu his twnmunKy and took ? interest fal^ingffjir tb# better meat of bin section. The funeral Iburtal oaoarrel at Mtsyab f Cbarsb ea ftaturday. * ? y ? "V . - - ~ rSai Tin: \i;\v oici. i:\ns >il^jp^j(|y? Plan Working Organisation In BvW) County In The South. New Orleuu?, I'Vb. -I.- Governopt of the cotton growing State* will be urged to set in motion a campaign for reduc tioa of tlu? 1010 COttOtt acreage which will reach every iudivtdual grower, a* the result of a conference here today .if delegates from South Carolina, North Carolina. Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Loaisiaua and Texaa. liesolutious adopted by the conference pie* a< working organization In every oaamty in the Houth, and a speaking and publicity campaign modelled on liberty loan met hods, urging substitution of food ntuffs^for cotton this year to an extent reducing the cotton acreage from U7,(w0, 000 Mnrea to *45,000,000 acres. The gov ernor of each cotton growing State was asked by the conference to appoint a far mer and a banker also a business man, t<? be member* of a board to dircct the campaign. Immedtate action was requeu ed, it was pointed out that the work be done must be accomplished within the next fopr weeks. Another resolution urging the farm era "not to sell the balance of the pres ent cotton crop for leas than thirty cents per pound basis middling." The meeting here today was called at the_ iixntaiicc af Cavawiox Coopor of South Carolina. L. I. Guion, vmo pf the South Carolina delegates presided. Mr. Guion said that the aim of the conference "is to put the Houth on a business basis by reducing the cotton produce** to a quantity which will be absorbed at a reasonably profitable price! find with the acreage "thus freed produce food enough <to sustain ttte South." J. E. Tanner of Mississippi agricultur al College, acted as secretary of the ses sion. Theodore V. Wenxel of Natchez, Miss,, who is conducting an acreage re duction publicity campaign through nows papers yrtn present and received approv al of' his plans in a resolution, - Those presen.Jtfj^un ?South Carolina in cluded; L. I. Guion, Camden; John T. Xfncke;^ Camden ;> and .7. Pope Matthews, Columbia. / . Atlanta, Ga., m.- 4.-? Marked enthu siasm was developed tyere today at a meeting of cotton men and representa tive? of various line* of commercial ac tivities to launch formally the ?ocalled "Safe and Sane" cotton movement the purpose of which is to induce farmers of the Houth to hold this year's cotton crop and reduce nexit years acreage. Unt ies* this Ik doqe, H. L. Stevens. of New. Orleans, who was the principal speaker, declared "the price of cotton wovud drop SO low that economic disaster \fould re sult." "Hold the 1018 Vivp for a pi-ice not less than JJO cents," was adopted a* tbe slogan of th?? movement. A committee was appointed to -9*cut? f upds and en* courage the movement in Georgia. LOCAL LEGISLATION Bills Introduced In House Pertaining to Kershaw County Affair*. lteprenentotive M. M. Johnson. 6t Ker shaw County, has ijitrodtfced the follow ing bills in <the House of Representatives^ j Senator .J,. Cope Ma ? Key aud He pre sc ta li vp .1. V. Young huve both been confined to their homes at and near Kershaw with | au attack of influensa for the past ten days.. This leaves Kershaw county with ottly one member in the general Assem bly : **A bill to place the Municipal Water dr Light Plant bank tn the hands of the [City Council. g>PrA bill to repeal the Act requiring the BuperVifcor and the County Board of (Jommissioners to work the roads in each township -three months in the year. ? "I Mil to gtsa" 4tohe?V PistHct Nor 1 the right to bold an election upon the question of the issue of bonds for pchool purposes, buildings, etc. - "A Jpint. resolution urging Congress to pass the bill now before it providing six months extra pay for the soldiers and sailors. anVi to allow them tn retain their .uniform*." - r';^ CMnto GaMea Weeding. | Mr. and Mrs. James A, MfcT)oweil of the Flat Rock section have finned Invi | tortious to the anniversary of their fif> tieth years of wsd*d life, to be held on Tuesday evening, February 11th, They are two of the county's highly esteemed people, with a )STg* family connection and numerous warm friends, ' and na doubt many will be with them on this oeeSsfon to oJfer congratalatfoss and good wishes and U* partake of their hos pital fty. " s?* Messrs. R. M. Kennedy and W. L. Wtfotea have formed another wkral?A??? coqiP?ny for Camden and will be known [as the "Bonded Warehouse Company". Thsy have secured the use of tha aid ^IttfiareTowm U TERRITORIAL CLAIMS SET FORTH JBV ALLIED POWERS . ? ? > 5 . .. . . . . l)KLK(i.\TKN AT I'KAdK CONKKK KNCK NOW IN POMITION TO OOMPARK WHAT KA?H NATION KXPUCT8 ? CONKIfiKKNCIC WlU, HAVK TO ADJUHT SAME. * ? . ft Pari*. Feb. a? The delegates of, the live great poyers are now iu a position to ^ compare deaHy their own .aspiration and those of all their Allied friends and to so e the difference tbat must be recon cile. I. Tho maximum of hopes, often over lapping, has been told freely and it re in ai us for the peace conference to ad just them into a coordinated whole, tfhe. desire# Of the several countries as pre sented may be compressed thus: Y Frauce~r- France wants, first of ail, Al sace-Lorraine unconditionally and the right to discuss and ultimately to Ux . the Freuch "frontier in their relation to the Rhine, which may require the crea tion of the buffer States. One pf these would be the Falastlnate and another Rhenish Frussla, France desires also to ... annex the basin of tho Sarr* river, which might be called a re-annexation. France will iuslst that ko fair^is tho left bank of tho Ilhine further to the north is concerued tho conference -should forbid military works of any klnH ? bar rack* bridgeheads, forts and fortresses -,-In that souc, 'Hie feeling Is that the people inh^bltating that sone should be free to decide for themselves whether " they wish to joiy France, forpi an indc tH-ttdeat . or return t*> ?y. ? ? The French bill jfov reparation . is not yet complete but it has beeu announced in the Chaimber of Deputies that it will be about (W.OOO.OOQ.OOO francs. The Freuch Government docs not ask for a protectorate lit Syria in the ordi nary aettso because It - considers that the population there is too advanced to intfko a protectorate necessary, but France, on account of her traditional Interests lu that country, feels that she should be called upon to exercise some ? sort Of or guidance until S|rfi|U, should be fully able to govern herself. r.~; H In-'* delega*!;. t ion believes that a society of nations Is desirable and obtainable and that It must be established by the present peaac conference. She advance* no continent al purposes other than those of a perma-. nent and just peaco, under the principle of self-determination and tbat there shall ^ be international freedom of transit by railroads and waterways, which is Great Britain's general definition of freedom v of i-oin'merce ill^times of peaces Great Britain will take mandatory power over the German islands South of the Jffiquator for Australia and over German southwest Africa for the Union of Month Africa. Hhe will alpo have the . mandate over German Kiirst Africa and some paH0*of Ardbla and she has particular claims in this respect oveK Mesopotamia. Great Britain will enter a pool Mth the other Allies in the mat ter of indemnities, especially reparation for air raid damages and shipping losses. far as the Brenner Fass. including the whole of tho Southern Tyrol; Trieste, -! I stria. Flume, Zara, Sehenieo, the. larger part of the Dalmatian Islands, Avlona and Its hinterland, a protectorate over Albania, possession of the islands in the Aegean which were taken from Turkey during tlie Tripolitan war and the prov ince of, A deli a if France and England should take territory in Asia Minor. The Italian contention is that the DnTmaHriri Tat and* atnl -aiirth parta the Dalmation coast aa are no>t assign ed to Italy should be neutralised. Should. I Wane e and England extend their colonial possessions In Africa Italy desires te enlarge her posarsaions in Bnitetea anil Tripoli* ! ffii; Romania ? Territorial contentions iu the Balkans are complicated pre sent difficult problems. Rumania d? efres to r?af n po***knr*f tbat HUtt? of Russian Beaearab^ given her by the " < entral JPowers under the canceled treaty Of HucharevdlffWI "now in her, possession. Rumania also desires Southern Dobrudja as . ceded to her fey Balsa ria after tlie second Balkan htuti Feaaesslon of Be* Kabla'lttd tW Dobrudja commands the mouth of the Datrribe. * *<? ^satwa*4 Bnaaiania wants ts. trlct of Bammt. It is %en that the 8?