The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1918, Page 3

id ‘WEDNE DENMARK WILL ASK THE PEACE CONGRESS FOR NORTH SCHLESWIG’ ‘Danish Government Decides to dct, After People Appeal to It for Reunion With Their Parent County, From Which They Were Torn by Germany. By A. E. GELDHOF N. E. Washington Bureau, 1128-1134 Munsey Bldg., WASHINGTON, D. C. The Danish government has decided to ask the peace congress to return North Schleswig, stolen by Bismarck in 1864, to Denmark. This fact ‘was given the Newspaper Enterprise Association’s Washington Now, however, the Danish govern- ment has been actuated to its decision by a request of the voters of North Sbkcewic ot Slesvig, as the Danes 1 it—that their rights and desires be tecognized by the peace conference. On receipt of afficial advices to this effect the Danish legation gave me this statement: SKAGER RAK Map showing the territory which Denmark will ask the peace congress to return to Denmark. It includes the northern half of Schleswig, (in shaded lines on this map) from the Bay of Flensborg to a point on the North sea coast just.south of Tondern. Denmark will not ask the annexation of South Schleswig or Holstein, which were parts of the Danish territory sto len from Denmark by Bismarck in 1864 Bureau exclusively today by the Dan-; ish legation, There has been much discussion of the Schleswig-Holstein question in this country and in Denmark before and since the armistice with Germany was signed, but Denmark, being a neutral country, felt that it was not in a po- Danish Position Officially Defined “The Danish government has _ in- formed the North Slesvigers that it has received ‘their petition with heart- felt satisfaction, and has stated that Denmark felt it could not take up this question before the North Slesvigers sition to make demands of! Germany | themselves claimed their right to de- at the peace table. termine .their own future... Now that, ‘tof a so-called “language line,” the political organization of Danish North Slesvigers has spoken, and ad- vocates a solution of the question which conforms with the wishes of the Danish nation, and which is in accord with the principle of national self:de- termination, favored by both bellig- erent sides, the Danish government will ask the associated powers to rec- ognize the rights of the North Sles- vigers in the coming peace confer- ence.” The: petition referred to was sent to Copenhagen by the North Slesvig As- sociation of Danish voters, and was signed by Deputy Tlanssen- Norre- molle, their representative in the Ger- man reichstag. The government will not, it was said at the legation, make any request for the annexation of Southern Schleswig for of Holstein. The Keil canal, which divides Southern Schleswig from Hol- stein, will therefore remain German property—unless the peace conference orders that it be neutralized. Both Southern Schleswig and Holstein are populated by more Germans than} Danes, and Denmark feels that their annexation would only create racial; difficulties. Northern Schleswig, however, is in- habited almost entirely by Danes north which runs from the bay of Flensborg, but not including the city of Flensborg,! across the peninsula to a point: just| south of Tondern. In this territory the Danish govern- ment propeses that a vote be taken to salve the question. All men and wom-| en over the age of 20 who were born and live in North Schleswig, or who have lived there for ten years, or who} were born, there but expelled by the} Germans, will have the right to vote. If adjacent districts of South Schles-; wig should claim the right to vote on the question, they will be allowed to give expression to their desires through a separate vote. 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