Show AWES DRAW NEW LINES ON EUROPE'S MAP r Frontiers Will Be D Defined fined Within Week Sterilized Areas Favored Paris Pang March Dy By 3 By the tho Associated Ples A new map of Qt of Europe Is rapIdly rapIdly rapidly rap- rap Idly taking form and within a a. week th the frontiers of ot the tho the theold old states stated will largely be defined as they are to appear ap ap- pear In 11 the peace tro treaty ty and tho the successive suc suc- documents fixing territorial I limits First in Importance Is Germanys Germany western frontier bordering on France France- which assumes assume international significance canco cance as asa a n barrier against renewal of ot the present war Owing to tho the issues Involved oled final determination of oC this I question is left to tho the council councH of tho the great powers but meantime meantime- the tentative tentative ten ten- I plans have been well advanced b by tho the commission which ordinates co reports on all frontier questions As It now note Stands the western frontier fron fron- tier comes under three main heads first Lorraine Alsace second cond tho the great iron and coal regions o of Drle Brley Briey and tho the valley and third the ex extensive ox- ox strip ip of or German territory lying ly lying ly- ly ing inS on tho the west bank of oC the tho Rhine from Palatinate northward France to G Get t With WHit respect to Lorraine Alsace lh tho present tendency is to make mako recession of or this section to Fran Franco France o without any condition of OC a plebiscite or otherwise It Is now occupied b by military forces under the armistice and there Is eVer every Indication that tho the occupation will become become be be- come permanent The Bricy Briey and valley sections are arc chiefly important as furnishing iron steel and coal on oil which Germany s military power was based and it Is la believed that the new lino will definitely deCi- deCi definitely nUch put an end to any further use of or these sources of or German power Part of oC tho the Brley Briey Drle and sections will become French by the return ot of Lorraine v The main difficulty has ha been over a I largo larso section of oC the tho coal fields lying beyond Lorraine and within German Ger Ger- German man territory The prevent present idea seems I to be somewhat between annexation ot of that section and leaving lea It to Get Ger many I Ger l Prec rc From Army Duty fluty I 1 According According- to this plan the northern region would be neither French no German p. p h. h but ou 11 ld n nn Jiw A r J U U V w v VW H u p j a JL 1 position po- po J J io somewhat ht similar to the the District Dis Dis- D District of oC Columbia amon among the tho Amen Amerl- can states stales Its productive capacity I would doubtless go SO to France Trance but politically politically po po- poI I Its inhabitants would j not be bo subject to conscription or military mill milli i tary tar service ser either to Franco France or Germany Germany Ger- Ger J I I many and would not elect delegates I Ilo to lo tho the legislative body of oC either coun coun- I coun-I try tn This and other measures arc are being I considered with the object of oC steril sterilizing izing tho the region re region Ion so o that Germany German j I could not b by a su sudden den Inrush ago agam l 1 turn its production to war Avar uses Rhine I Land to lie De I Conc Concerning the region along lonh t tIle the e ewest I west bank of or the Rhine the present tendency is toward the same form of or sterilization which would render i this impotent for Dr German military Ude Udes without giving giving- It a definite political status toward either cither side This Probably probably j j ably would be lie accomplished by the tame same came means means as in ill tho region b by I making the inhabitants Independent ot of conscription or military ry service to lo either side and without legislative representation representation rep rep- except some borne local form of ot self lion j This on broad lines is the pr present sent I plan which however howe is only tentative tentative tentative tenta tenta- tive pending final action final action by tho council council coun coun- cil of the great powers The plans relative to other frontiers Including tho le of or tile the now new CzechoSlovakia Czecho- Czecho slovakia Rumania Serbia and Greece and to tho the expected acquisition In In Thrace and nd Asia Minor inor aro are also nearing nearIng near- near II Ing completion 1 |