GERMAN ARMAMENTS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 80, 29 December 1920, Page 5

GERMAN ARMAMENTS

GREAT NUMBERS OF GUNS STILL HELD STATEMENT BY EX-WAR MINISTER OF FRANCE <Br TBl«fr»ph.-Prwi Aiiooiation-Oosytight Paris, December 26. During a debate in the Chamber of Deputies oii vhe foreign policy, .the exWar Minister, M. Lb Fovre, explained, that his resignation was mainly due to the demand of the Finance Ministry for the cutting down of the Army Estimates, with which he did not agree. He asserted that Germany was.-trying' to reconstitute her nrniamenite, as was shown by the fact that she still posselssed tens of ilousands of machine-guns, millions of riflc< and a large number of field guns. Germany was also concealing 1100 gun- ■; breeches in secret depots, whilst not ' a tingle model had been discovered.of two of the latest machine-guns, one capable of firing 1500 shots a minute agiiiiiat aircraft, and the other intended for firing on trenches fromVaircraft! He asked for the maintenance of. the'military forces, which were indispensable if the barricade between Germany and Bolshevism was to be kept un.—Reuter. BAVARIAN ANdTpRUSSIAN CIVIC /■ GUARDS REFUSAL'TO 'DISSOLVE ,I?ISTT3T?BED TO ALLIED GOVERNMENTS". ... (Itec. .December 28, 10.30 p.m.) Paris, December 27. ' The Ambassadors'' Council considered the protest of the inter-Allied' Commission at Berlin against the refusal, of tho German Government to carry, out disarmament in those regions /where she had been permitted to maintain antiSpaTtacist forces. Tho Council considered tho matter too grave to settle, and therefore decided to submit it to the forthcomini?~Premiers i conference at' Nice.— Aus.-N.71. Cable Assn. ■■ ■ '(R«c. December 28, 9.85 p.m.) Paris, December 28. The Council of Ambassadors has decided to refer to their Governments the German Government's refusal to dissolve end disarm the civic guards in Bavaria and East Prussia. Marshal' Foch attended the Council.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assri.