mm , - ,"-!", !?vr'?"tHvj ucnmg public lie rr ? yit ," if' ppir-rc V v -- into '. ' f" k" , I nfmwatm ''( - vsciuuer ,;, f7fO " vs.-: wf .cr v miigjr THE EVENING TELEGRAPH ,iBWr"iiw-i ,1" 5 I y A. m HOW THE ONLY PEACE ACCEPTABLE TO THE ALLIES WILL TRANSFORM THE MAP OF EUROPE - . y', Mi, ft E . . M C OCEAN j$P ' " ' I m- S&A S CRVE V Vn TABRIZ ,, MB A F R 1 C AV 'X ATHENg r ifa a. Mo 4" ""h ' ' f E-HSHft Reprinted by courteiy of the New York Timea Company. ' Sj ' A Bfl - t!(l) Alsace-Lorraine to be returned by Germany to France ; l Luxemburg, now occupied by German troops, to be free or I, to Belgium; (3) German Poland to be incorporated, l; (4) Russian Poland and (5) Austrian Poland, into a new l, State: (6) District of Cholm. disputed bv Ukraine and v. .v. ... . ... ... " M, uiumaie me aouowui; (7, (8), (tf), (10), (11), Es- Livonia, Courland, Lithuania and Finland, each of .rosy be independent or part of a federated Russia; (12) Coast, in dispute between Russia and Finland; (13) m Russia, now in chaos ; whether it will be even further split up or become a federated State nearly or fully as large as Imperial Russia is still in doubt; (14) Ukraine, now separated irom Russia, may remain independent or be part of a new Russia this is also true of (15) the Caucasus; (16) Armenia to be definitely freed from Turkish control either as an independent or autonomous State; (17) Iramania proper, which will doubt less form a part of a greater Rumania, including (18) Bess arabia and(19)Transylvania;(20)Czechoslovakia, to be formed as an independent State out of Bohemia and Moravia, parts of Austria-Hungary; (21) Hungary, which, shorn of Tran sylvania, Croatia and other lands oppressed by Hungarians, may either be free or remain joined to Austria"; (22) Austria, to be free or joined to what remains of Germany after,the war; (23) Jugoslav lands of Austria-Hungary to form part of a great Jugoslav nation; (24) Italy Irredenta, to go to Italy; (25) Serbia, as she was prior to 1913, to be incorporated with (26) Macedonia '(27) an outlet to the Adiatic Sea, and (28) Montenegro, into a great Jugoslav nation'; (29) Albania, fate Jp doubtful; (30) Bulgaria, as c"was before the war, and may be after, the Entenjte is through with her, though she hope's for ' accessions of territory in Dobrudja and European Turkey; (31) European Turkey, the most probable thing about which is that it will no longer belong t6 Turkey when the new Europe based on German defeat becomes a reality; (32) the region about Drama, Seres and Kavalla to be returned to Greece by Bul- garia, , THE FOURTEEN POINTS ESSENTTAT. TO PRAPR! kf.t uhptti nv PRESTT1ENT WTT.SOTV TM WTfi AnnvF.fifi TO r.fVNf-wec Vtf TAKTITAWV fi 101ft y. v ., vr-- . , , , --- ,--- -- --.i .. vr-. U-.'. --- w, --w- - SP L wnni eel lorin vy jrrcsiucm u eMcntlal to peace In his j,jU.Congress on January 8 last ows: covenants of peace, openly .after which Uiere shall be International understand- lllitd, but diplomacy shall jiirkyV frankly and in the ?v.j- . ... itu.iNMOoaa f nvicauon i rrttrifti waters, 'ia;Awar, , the enforcement of international cove, nants. III. The removal, bo far as possl ble, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions amonsr all tho nations con BentlnK to the peace and associating themselves for Its maintenance. IV, Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will reduce to the lowest point con sistent, with domestic safety. . tfV Fraa. open-minded and abso- rnal claims, based upon a btrlct ob wivance of the principle that In de termining all such questions of sover eignty the intei ests of the population concerned muht have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Gov ernment whose title Is to be deter mined. VI, The evacuation, of all Kustilan territory and such a settlement of ull questions affecting Russia as will se cure the best and freest co-operation of the other nations of the woj-ld In obtaining for her nn unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for tho political development and national policy, and u&suie her of a blncero welcome Into jlio hociety of'free na tions under Institutions of her own choosing; and, mora than a welcome, assistance albo of overj kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accoi ded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good-will, of their comprehension of hor needs as distinguished from their own In tyests and of their intelligent anti unbelftsh sympathy. , Vi I. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and reatorjd, erelgnty which bhe en.' In com mon with all other free nations. No other single act will serve us this will serve to testoie confidence among the nations In tho laws which they hae themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without thH healing act the whole stiucture and validity of inter national Jaw is forever Impaired, VIII,A11 lVencli territory should be freed and the invaded portions re stored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of heworld for nearly fifty peace -may once more be made secure In the interest of all. IX. A readjustment of the fion-. tiers of Italy should be effected along clearly lecognlzable lines of national ity. . X, The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose plijbi among the nations we wish to seeSiafeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest oppor tunity of autonomous development. XI. Rumania, Serbia and Monte negro shejuld be evacuated; occupied territories restored! Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; the relations of. tb-Bvral Bal by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and na tionality, ancL- International guaran tees of the political and economic in dependence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan States should' be? entered into, v XII. The, Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should'be a sured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now un der Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an ab solutely unmolested opportunity of auc tonomousdevelopment, and the XMM wmhcwi bwvuiu vm - f 4 . . 1 . , !.W I t'i ''A .H commerce of ajl nations under toUB"? national guaranteed ' -J'p-r "j Mill, Alt inoepenaeni rviun ' should be erected which should ,-.! elude the teiritorles Inhabited ay JmX'l A dlsputably Polish populations,' 4which - should be assured a free an,d. secure? acceas to the sea, and whose politlaaK and.aconoBjio lndepeidena-and'tArflx torlal 'integrity should be auaranteed' py lniernauana. covenani, XIV. A general association of tlons must be .formed under covenants for the purpoae'ef in mutual fuarantaaa at all exte independent, determination of her owu limit.' t-f yaar. mm iw rwff (a prtfer kan Mftataa'ta ttl ' ...'.. -.,- . , . i,. . K-f U Ir'-VAM x- r. A?' 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