THE NEW MAP

Evening Star, Issue 16197, 19 August 1916, Page 3

THE NEW MAP

AirEBICAN": PAPERS EKARRANaE 'ffiS OLD WOELI>. Several newspapers, not of the sensational order, publish, in a varying form arid on differing authority, details of mi' alleged agreement by the Allies for a redrawing of the maps of Europe and Asia in tlio event of a decisive victory. The story, emanating from Florence, is summarised with reserve. The main features of the so-called agreement are as follow: 1. The Gorman Empire to be disintegrated into its former self-supporting Stakes, including Germanic Austria. 2. Heligoland to be ceded to Britain. 3. Britain to share Germany's colonies with Franoe.

4. France to repossess Alsace-Lorraine. 0. Belgium to bo restored, and to annex Luxemburg and possibly some territory to the eastward.

6. Japan to retain Kiao-chnu. 7. Bussia to surrender Polish territory to a renationalised autonomous Poland, which also receives German-occupkd Poland, Galtcia, tho Bukowina, and a portion of Northern Hungary. 8. Russia to get Armenia end the southern snores of the Black Sea, with the territory adjacent to the Dardanelles. 9. Itafly to receive Smyrna, the Twelve Islands, portion of the Trentino, Gorizia, Trieste, and Dalmatia. 10. Serbia to absorb Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Slavic Hungary. Although lacking in authority (says the special correspondent in New York), circumstances prohibit one wholly to ignore or disbelieve the story.