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Job Reconciling Conflicting Nations. GREAT POWERS ADVANCE CLAIMS FOR TERRITORY France Calls for Alace-Lorraine and Insists on No Military Works on Left Bank of Rhine; Great Britain Advances No.j Continental Ambitions; Italy Asks for Much; Balkan States' j Demands Create Difficult j Problems to be Adjusted. Paris, Feb. 2.?(By the Associated ; Press.)-r-The delegates of the five V great powers are now in a position to K| compare clearly their own aspirations and those of all their allied friends and>-to see the differences that mu: t he reconciled. Tie- miximuu? of hopes, often overlapping, has h-.-ei. ?told.freely- and it remains for ihe peace conference to adjust them into a coordinated whole. The desires of -.the .several countries as presented .inay be compressed thus: Franee?France wants lirst of ail. Alsace-Lorraine unconditionally and the right to discuss and ultimately to fix the French frontiers in th-ir x relation* to the Rhine, which may r? '.quire the creation of buffer states. One of these would bd the. Palatinate and another Rhenish Prussia. Franc desire's also to annex the basin of. the Sarra River, which might be called a reannexrition. France will insist that sc? far as the ?-*ft bank of the Rhine further to th< north is concerned -the conference should forbid military works of any "kind?barracks, bridgeheads, forts and .fortresses?in that zone. The feeling ?.5s.'.t?uxt the people inhaWtatmg that ..zone should be free to d<-eide iv?r themselves whether they wish to join France, form an in dependant state or return to Germany. The French bill for reparation is not yet complete, but it has been an nounced in the chamber of deputies that it will be about G6.0O0.000.C0e francs. ". .The French government does v.-..'. ;ask for a protectorate in Syria in th ordinary sense, because it considers ?.that the population there is tor> ad vanced to make a protectorate neces sary, but France, on account of her traditional interests in this country, feels that she should be called upon . to exercise some suit' of guardianship er guidance until Syria should be fuj iy able'lo govern herself. Great Britain?Great Britain's dele-1 TRtfrm ' believes that a society of na tiops/ is desirable and obtainable and that-it must be establishe'd by ? th* present peace conference. She ad vances no continental purposes other than those of a permanent and just peace under the principle <>f s?df determination and that there shall b< international freedom of transit by railroads and waterways, which is Great Britain's general definition o/ freedom of commerce in times of peace. > j : "Great Britain will take man da ton*'-! power over the German islands south i of/the equator for Australia and over j German Southwest Africa for th "Union of South -Africa. She will als?, have .the mandate over German East Africa and some parts of Arabia and she has particular claims in this re spect- over Mesopotamia. 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?Italy asks for the Trentino as far as the Brenner pass, including the whole of the southern Tyre: j Trieste. Istria. Fiume. Zara. Sebinico. j the larger part of the Dalmatian 'Is-1 lands, Avlona and its hinterland, a protectorate over Albania, possession of the islands in the Aegean which were taken from Turkey during the Tripolitan war and the province of AdaZia if France and England shouV take territory in Asia Minor. .The Italian contention is that the I Dalmatian Islands and such parts of; the Dalmatian coast as an- hot as- j signed to Italy shad he neutralized j Should France and England extend j their colonial possessions in Africa.! Italy desires to enlarge her posse* I sions in Eritrea and Tripoli Roumania?Territorial contention*:-: I in the Balkans are* complieat'-d and] present difficult problems. Roumxni desires to retain possession of th ?? i portion of Russian Bessarabia ^;v< n | h^r by the centra! powers der th | treaty of Baeharest and how in h< . j possession. Roumama also desii southern Dobrodja as ceded to her by j i-tu-lgaria after the second bJaJkan j war. Possessio et of 1 :? ssi i ra 1?:.- ? .-.. ?i she Dobruja commands the mouth <;t" ? the Danube.- ', To the westward Roumania wants :? j annex the Hapsburg provinces of I Bukowina and Transylvania and j considerable part of the rich si agr cultural distinct of Breat. ft is h-n j that the Roumanian aspira?i< ns c ?? ! ?ftict with those of Serbia, firm that under her war agrc m? j with the en&nte Serbia sho ;id ha* a large portion of Banal ? ? other sections of former A .. > U gary adjoining Old Serbia to the nor to round out the proposed ? ? . ? s ( ; state; Boih Roumania and Ser? have moved troops in;.> Ban a; :??< cure their claims ;:;:<{ French troops j. have established a neutral zone :?? prevent hostilities beween tin Serbia?Serbia'.-- claim to take fr< the Hapsburg monarchy the i of Bosnia and Herzegovina . op posed by no one in the ? ? u group. The plans for th?- incorp< ?:- n inte i: Jugo-Siavia of the Hapsburg pr< ?f Croatia, except ;is to the coastal j region- of Fium? . are also considered ?: as subject to the internal di els.ion 01 j i the southern Slavs. ,. J.ugo-Slav and Italian aims in 1 -i-...7r- .f,?.-_? - ? _m. - _ ? . I ?harp conflict in the settlement of the Adriatic coast problem, involving tin future of Kiume and the Croatian sea -1 board along with the islands of Mon tenegro and Serbia as part of a great er Jugo-Slav slat" has been voted by the Montenegrin parliament, but the faction representing King Nicholas and his adherents protest again si a union which shall not leave to Monte negro entire local self-government. There is also a conliict between the plans of Jugo-Slav statesmen and those of Czecho-Slovakia who desire a wide corridor from Bohemia to the Adriatic, to Hungary and Croatia to secure an outlet to the sea. Greece?Greece wishes northern Kpirus and Tbrace. with the exception of Constantinople, and the shores of the Bosphorous and Dardanelles, which Premier Venizelos wished to place under international ' cofttroL Greece asks for the vilayet of .Smyrna in Asia Minor and the former Turk ish islands in the eastern -Mediterran ean including those known as the Dodecanesus, and claimed by Italy. Bulgaria?Although Bulgaria cap itulated without conditions a ad her future terit?rles depend upoK%the con querors, her government has not abandoned hope of adding extensive territories and it even hopes to receive extensions of the Bulgarian frontiers in southern Macedonia along the Aegean coast and in Thrace. Cz-cho-Slovakki?The new state of Cz^cho-Slovakia is carving out its [? - ritories almost entirely ai the ex pot : ??f the old Austria-Hungary. The ! in;: doms of Bohemia, Moravia and'the Slovak regions of northern Hungary already have been incorporated into the proposed state, but there arc cer tain eon?icts with the Poles. Ruje mans. Roumanians and Germans, ?s Weil .'is with the Austriahs and the Magyars, because che. Czechs C&irn ithai part of German Saxony and Ger 1 man Silesia belongs ^ethnographically I to the new sia t?-. j The Czech o-S.lcvaks are coming into i.opposition to Polish claims in Silesia and sections of Galicia. while to the northeast Gxech? -Slovakia expansion is brought into contact with the ! Ruthenians or TUranian.:-.. in eastern { Galieia. The new state desires ex I pension southward over a frontage on jvbe Danube and over a corridor t.? : the Adriatic^ Poland- The 2"oies. with ah in?der quate army: are endeavoring *<"> cs I laPlish possession of disputed regions on three sides of iiussian Poland and Galicia, which consulates the nucleus of the new Polish State. The Poles desire eastern Oaiieia to include Lem berg, which is in the Ckraino, and thn disputed province of Chekn in Little Russia. To the northeast the Poles*desire to have vi'na. recognized as Polish. Both the Lithuanians and the BoJsheviKi have raised claims to VSlna'; the Bol sheviki supporting their pretensions by a -menacing" military offensive. Trie Poles are contending against the Ger mans not only for German Silesia and Posen and West Prussia as prov inces populated chiefly by Poles, but also for the city of Danzig, so as to provide Poland- with dir?-': : ".cess to the sea. Should the Pole:; have iJrrr/.U;. East Prussia would be cut off from tie- rest >f Cevmanv and would remain ah ?'island" porulated by Germans sur rounded by Pr>: s'i dominions. Belgium?Belgium asks that the reparation for damages wrought by Germany shall be the first lien upon German assets to the extent of at least 15.000.eo0.000 francs or up to a much larger sum if Germany docs r?ot return the machinery and the ma terials taken from Belgium. Belgium believes that she should be paid first because she was the first to be invad ed^ beenrse her neutrality was vio lated and because she has suffered more from despoliation than any oth er country in the war. Belgium having reasserted her in dependence and thus emerged from her old state of neutrality, desires from Holland the left bank of the Scheldt and the peninsula of Maa stricht, which protudes into Belgian Limberg. Belgium also will assent to a plebiscite in Luxembourg to de cide whether that count*;/ wishes to loin Belgium or France or to retain :ts autonomy. The foregoing1 may be considered :he extreme ctaims of Belgium. They come im o conflict with Holland, which resists any ir.frr.-cremrnts of :he from.:''::: ashed for by the Belgian aunexationists. The government of iTolland appears willing iy revise the s?he:dt navigation treaty so that Bel xiirm should enioy ec.ual rights with Holland. Japan?Japan enters the pea conference, as H?ron Makmo. the del egate, ha? said, territorial ambitions in China,'' and that as for Tsing Tan she will hand it back to China under the terms of the notes exchanged between China and Japan:' In May. 3M".. This is interpreted by; Japan as permitting her to ~otain certain former German concessions on] the Shangtung peninsula. Japan. ? Baron Makino explains, "neither in- j tends nor desires io inter fere In Rus-J siah affairs, but is willing if solicited ] to aid Russe: -in restoring order.'" j These ?)??'?.'.:r;:f.ioox dispose of two) of :h" :r::i;i questions in which .!<:p:;?;: 's interested except thai she desires] to retain the Southern Pacific islands * north of tlie equator whicb formerly ] belonged to Germany. China?Tim Chinese delegates ask to be guaranteed against foreign im- j perialism or aggression and desiite the gradual abolition of '"consular rights" and to be allowed to ?n>pos< her duties on importations. The ?"!;! nese t-jso ask for the return oX Kiau Chan. Switzerland ?Sv.*it% rlaa I a;:r -.??ex {o i>c the only neutral state which na/ so far presented her desires to th - peace conference. The Swiss government lias represented that while v.-it:/.<?:? [and would foe glad to participate ja; i society nations, yet. bevo-use of Iniw.i I):. :??-ii: ii-she .iM hot 1?? so if thai should :n< ? n tuse of vor troops in policing tlie world by *oree. as perhaps against Italy, '"ranee or Germany, Switzerland desires an outle' to the ;ea. by making tlie Bhine a neutral ^tr.*am. This is in accord with .?"roneh desires, since if At-?ace-Lor ainc becomes Pren^h from ?asle torthward and independent imffer tates siioij:?] oe erected cul **f the 'alatinate and Hhenish i5rit::?;ia. as Doctors Say I Calotabs Are I Best for Flu - j Influenza and Grippe, Like Ordi J nary Colds, Require Calotabs, j the Perfected Calomel That is Free From Nausea and Dan ger of Salivation. Physicians and druggists claim ?i~t :he great epidemic of influenza hay conclusively demonstrated thai the mickcsj cure for a cold and the k ;r: t>>r.even.tiye of influenza and pn-u :noiiia is to keep the liver active so h:>: the digestive rgans may be in perfected condition. For this purpose 'alotabs, the new nausealess calomel rhat is freed from the sickening and salivating effects, is the most thorough end dependable, as well as most agreeable laxatvie. j Calotabs have the special advantage i -f not making the patient sick and I .venk. as they are free from the [ nauseating and griping qualities a:. ; i'< !:<?t upset the digestion and app?? :it?-. One Calotab at bed tinae with a swallow of water?that's all. >"<?? salts, no nausea, nor the slightest in lierference with your eating, pleasure l-ir work. ?xt morning your cold has J -anished, your liver is active, and ybu ?j;t feeling fine with a. heavy appetite ; .'or breakfast. * !?'>.,? your prOteeSm'tl, C??o'tab.S :"rr? j <>n]y in original sealed pacfcag? ??. j price flViry-fiye cents. Sold hy all ; h-uggists and your money back if y><:; j ire not glad you got them.?Axlyt. ; suggested by IvrarShal Fpch. it would j be necessary to neutralize the Rhine. ! if ibis wer;* done it would give j:Switzerland a;; outlet to the seas. ; ^andinayiit?The tevi-itori.:! ::ST>ir | itions of the three Scandinavian pow '??;rs are considcr-d modest. Denmark [ wishes to annex lhat part ol rtforth | ern Schleswig inhabited predominant i iy by DaAes. but has not asked to re gain the provinces of Schleswig and [Holstein taken from Denmark by ."Prussia m th?- war of or to ex tend her frohti -i s southward to the ' Kiel can ah ! Norway has certain, aspirations to Spitzbergen or a part of it. but I j not pressing her claims energetically. ; A strong Socialist ioovc-me.nl in Sweden fayojrs; tlic union with Swed en of trie Aiaad Islands, which are regarded 1? the Swedes as th<- nave' key to Stockholm. Swedish interests. : it is- claimed, are in conflict with those j of Finland. . Sovereignty over the is lands has belonged to Finland since the fall of the Russian imperial gov aunt. JCothmg has beOn heard since the eoliar.h- of Germany of earlier Finnish plans to secure an outlet by the annexatior/ of parts of Russian Careiia. lying between Finland and the M?rm'an coast and even of ad jacent Finrnark. which belongs to Norway. This contention on the part of Finland led to the landing of al lied trooos at Murmansk to prevent lao establishment of a German sub marine base on the northern seas. The delegates of the five powers who will straighten out this plexius of rival interests are obliged also to cake into consideration the passionate racial claims as well as the history of all Europe for centuries. Agreement on Colonies Allies Determined Colonies Shall Not Revert to Germany. Paris. Fol;, l?By. the Associated Press)?-The a.-cord reached by the council of the great powers concern ing the disposal of the German colo nies and occupied regions in Turkey in Asia is much mere definite than is generally supposed and, besides ac ceptance in principle of the American plan of mandatories, it embraces the following main features: The allied and associated powers are agreed that the German colonies shall not be returned to Germany, owing, first, to mismanagement, cruelty and the as." of these colonies submarine bases. The conquered regions of Armenia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Palestine and Arabia shall be detached from the Turkish empire. Provision is made whereby the well being and development of backward colonial regions are regarded as the sacred trust of civilization, oVer which the league. ?<f nations exercise, super visory i: :<-. Tim adnm.isltatioh Of tutelage of ;i;.'-s" regions is en trusted to the j j i?? advanced nations, ?-vim v.ii] act as mandatories in he ir.:!:' of the league oi" nations. These mandatories are not uniform, but vary according to the degree of development of the colonial region and its approach to the stage of self government. The mandates in Pales tine.; Syria ?and other portions of Tur key: where well -d e v eloped civ?iz? tioh exists, would be comparatively lighi and would probahly permit of i!n- provisional rocogintioh oi tiio in dependence of tlicse communities. - < ?n the other hand, colonies like r,hose in Central Africa would require a mandators wiih large powers of ad ministration as responsible for the suppression of tlie slave trade, the liquor traffic, ammunition and arms traffic and the prevention of military authority on tlie part of the natives except for native police purposes. Other colonies and localities, such >s those hi German Southwest Africa, and some of the South Pacific islands, have such sparse and scattered popu lations and are so separated from other communities that the laws of the mandatory country would probab ly prevail in these regions. The mandatories will report a( stated intervals t<< the league of na tions concerning the manner in which i 'colony is being administered. The foregoing general outline indi cates on broad lines the terms where by, it is dec lared, conflicting views were tinally reconciled and a, commor agreement was reached acceptable tc all the great and colonial powers. XOIUVAY KOLincS Breeder Knudsen\s Party Lost 25 Seats?Socialists Failed to Increase Strength. ; Christiania, Ix-c. ^e. via London. Jan. 5 (Corespondence of The As sociated Press)?The party of the Lefts, headed by the Premier, Gunnar I Knudsen, lost 25 seats in Parliament [in the recently held election, in ? stead of 80 seats which it controlled [during: the last session of the Storth jhig, the party now controls 55 seats. Opposition is divided between the Rights which have increased their membership from 24 to 53 and the Socialists who have IS scats instead of 19 as i.j the previous Parliament. .The FCnudscn party, or Lefts, still is the strongest division in the Storthing I but now has considerable less than a majority of its 126 members It is expected that this will involve the re Iconstruction of the cabinet. The most conspicuous event in the election was the defeat of the speak er of Parlament, J. L. Mowinskel. of Bergen, who was regarded as politi cally one of tie- strongest-men in the house and one of the most staunch > supporters <ifr the cabinet. I The failure of the Socialists to in crease the number of their votes I throughout, the country was a sur j prise as this party had proiitfid by re cent changes in the suffrage law. The party gaining only Z',000 votes while the Rights.gained ?&.??'ft'. This is as rcribed to the Socialist program to ox j'elude the teaching: of religion from [schools, to support prohibition ;>nd Lo [reform society along the lines of the. : Russian Bolsheviki. : Although Norwegian women have [had the suffrage for more, than 10 .years, no woman ever has been elect ee monger of parliament. One wo ;?m:n v/;:s Tr^uri:"L';ted for that office in trie last election but .received only 172 I votes*. A small '.fraction of self-sup j porting women have jormed an efec ; tion association with a platform ask j ing voters never to vote for men, but it's influence, was not perceptible at ! the polls. Two important issues to come, be fore the parliament at its session be | ginning in January are n reform in j the election system by which the ; thinly settled districts now eject the ? majority of members while the cities, I with a more dense population; have less repress rttation ifi proportion to j their population. Other proposals are to enact a law of init;ative and refer j end urn and to solve the prohibition ; question. The Cost of the War. Tin- reports of actual disbursements month by month during- 191s show that the treasury over-estimated its needs this year just as it overestimat ed them to spend all of the vast sums appropriated for carrying oh the war. The expenditures for last October alone were about a quarter of a billion dollars less than the esti mates for that month. The total war cost for America was. up to Novem ber, ?20,500,00?>,000. Or* this 7 billion dollars was loaned to the allies. A little more than 5 billions was raised . from taxation. leaving something like 8 billion dollars as the net public debt which the war had brought our coun try during the period of fighting. This sum, which looks small indeed beside cur national resources, or beside the .expenditure of the chief belligerents of Europe, wiil be largely increased by the huge expenditures for demoh i?-cation and reconstruction work. Our "?. l.-ral Reserve Board issued a bulle t'a on November 18 giving what is probably the best authentic current estimate of war costs. They ?'. Vr,.>u<?.'mm),ooo as the total cost; of; the war to May 1. 1918, which would mean scan-thing like $.200,000,00.^, O.-'j by the end or' this year. Scarcely ! loss imprvssiv?- than the hugeness of these sums is the rapidity with w^iich the erp-.-r.se of lighting the war; mounted from year to year. ForTaVi IS 15 $26,01*0,000.000 was the .tofa@ c ost: !t/*(; brought the figures to $M&53?? ? 00<?,0?i?.0.;0; arid It* 17 to $G0,00O?-vv. 000.000. C omparatively little of these'l: , gigantic expenses have been defrayed^ : from taxation, and war loans -aff-*-:^' gj-r-gaie !;",<\?)00,000,000. The. allies " Iiave borrowed $105,000,000,000 and j| ' lim central powers $4fi,UiiO,000,000?? ' : :h'-se timires being for bond issued. \ previous to May, 1018. The seven.-.. I principal belligerents had in 1014 aTfc-y I aggregate annual interest charge on j their public debts of about $1,000, : 000,000. Today it is ten times as j much. Germany's national debt is tf^Tj?s. 'nearly thirty-Jive billion dollars?more, 'than t\vo-l:fths of her estimated nat iomai* wea.lth. --American Review ' b? Reviews. . Stomach Pains ^ Doubled Him tip;: His Kidneys Caused Pains in , His Back Also. Claims Breca Gave Relief. '? :.?r:i;y i.-' er-t ar--- received stating .the .good nt.-co has uone. 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