Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-26 | Page 4 | Quarrels over Territory

I QUARRELS OVER TERRITORY. According to Frank II Simonds, the British and French art-drawing art-drawing apart in world policies, and already much friction has been created over the division of territory in Arabia, Syria and tho Holy Land. With statesmen of the ability of Lloyd u-orge and Millerand it seems strange th.it an estrangement should appear bo early in the work of brinpinp th- world ) a ir-ncr bnsis. and ft may be that Mr. Shnoiida is simplj distributing n little propaganda But he goes into details, stating: In recent months the French have manifestly separated them so Ives from the British. They have entered into an armistice with the Turks, north ol Syria, at the precise moment mo-ment when the British and the Greeks are attacking them south of Constantinople. The have withdrawn their scattered scat-tered detachment from all oi Turkey and concentrated them in Syria, where they are commanded by General Gou-raud. Gou-raud. victor of the last battle f Champagne in July, 1918, which broke the final Ludendorff offensive and opened the waj to' the victory of the second Marne. Now the French hae begun a Avar up mi Prince Feisal and the Arab kingdom. Their immediate objectives are Damascus Da-mascus and Aleppo, great cities not far fro: 1 the Syrian littoral, lit-toral, the latter of which is o nthe Bagdad railway, at the junction between that great trunk line and i! Syrian railways, rail-ways, which now extend south to Palestine, where they connect con-nect with the railway the British have constructed from Egypt. Aleppo is then the great railway center of eastern Asia, the point when- the lines from Bapdad and Cairo meet. Holding Aleppo. Damascus and the seaports of Tripoli and Beirut, the French will thus control the natural outlet of the Bagdad railwav upon the Mediterranean. Even if the British, with the Greeks, succeed in dominating Anatolia Anato-lia and retain control of Mesopotamia and 0? Palestine, the French thus interpose a wedge of their own territory between be-tween the two halves and control a very long; stretch of the connecting Bagdad railway, as well as an ever, longer stretch of the railway binding Constantinople to Cairo and constituting consti-tuting not merely the railway link betweeu Europe and Africa, Af-rica, but the essential link in what will undoubtedly one day be the Cape Town-Calais line It is, then, to say the least, annoying to the British to see the French intrenched in such a strategic position, and the Britsih office has fought ever sinee the armistice to shake French claims in this region Pans was a battleground battle-ground throughout the conference, and the French were compelled to surrender Mosul and much of he Svnan hinterland. hin-terland. But they held fast in Syria and rnde good their claims. These bitter rivalries over territories will not cease until protectorates pro-tectorates are on a broader basis The country holding a protectorate protector-ate or colonial possessions should not be allowed to discriminate a-gainst nationals of any other country either in property riphts or trade advantages.