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Show POWERS Tl GET IIS'IHIPS Fleet Not to Be Sunk, According Ac-cording to Semi-official Admiralty Statement. . . By HENRY WALES. (Chicago Tribune Cable. Copyright.) PARIS, March 2. A British admiralty semiofficial statement published this morning confirms my dispatches of the last fortnight that the German fleet will not bo sunk. The French and Italians want their losses made good from Germany, Ger-many, and the smaller nations, like Belgium, Bel-gium, Serbia, Rumania and Jugo-Slavia want the destroyers, small crulscrB arid gunboats. The British want the warships allotted among the allies, according to tho proportion pro-portion of losses during the war, but fhe French demand allotment of the vessels on a basis of percentage of each nation's fleet lost during the war. Thus,- although Britain's total number of ships sunk exceeded France's in point of numbers, they represent a smaller proportion of the British navy lost than of the French navy, because the British navy is much larger In point of numbers than the French. Thus, France hopes to get four of the German's big ships and Italy three, leaving England two or three and the United States andJapan one each. PARIS, March 2. (Havas)-Stephen Plchon, minister of foreign affaire. In his weekly talk with the newspapermen at the Qual d'Orsay, today, declared that the question of the disposition of the Gorman fleet had not yet been brought beforo the peace conference. Questions as to the proposed internationalization of the Kiel canal or other measures designed de-signed to remove the strategic, value of the waterway to Germany also had not been discussed, he said. M. Pichon said he considered the Kiel canal a problem of the highest Importance, Impor-tance, toward which none of the great powers could remain unconcerned. |