MILITARY ACTIVITY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 175, 19 April 1919, Page 7

MILITARY ACTIVITY

GERMAN RECRUITING CAMPAIGN

RECENT NEWS AMPLIFIED

fly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

(Rec. April 18, 5.5 p.m.) ' Paris, April 14

. The Czecho-Slovak'. delegation , from Eastern Germany declares that the Germans are secretly organising a powerful army, in the Eastern provinces. They have concealed lurgc quantities of arms and artillery under the control of the Pan-Germnp League. Numerous recruiting stations liavo been i established between the Baltic and the Czech frontier. ~ Officers are accosting, all travellers of military age, who' mostly havo yielded to their' pressure, largely, influenced by the offered pay of six marks per day and food. The daily average of recruits is 25,000. ■ The delegation states that theSTunkers are placing their wealth at the disposal of the new army., granting the granaries of their seignorial domains for barracks. Numerous factories continue to produce 6tiells, machine-guns, and cannon. The Government will also hand over to the new. avmv: long trains of wagons which have been ■ liidd"n in the woods. Batteries. of artillery are also hidden all over the, country. The 'Government, which protests that-,it is unulite to feed "th,e ..urban rentros, is transporting thousands of, shells from uino factories,; all erected/since the-armistice. The whole movement is conducted in von Hindenburg's name—Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn.' .