GERMAN EVASION

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 2, 27 September 1921, Page 5

GERMAN EVASION

OF DISARMAMENT CLAUSES OF VERSAILLES TREATY PROVISION FOR NEW ARMY FACILITIES FOR PRODUCING MUNITIONS The London “Times” declares that the German Government is conniving with the militarist clique in efforts to evade the disarmament clauses of the Peace > 4 Treaty, and that provision is being made for a large, wellequipped army. By Telegraph—Preea Association— Oopyrlght (Rec. September 27, 1.5 a.m.) London, September 25. “The Times,” despite official German contradictions, revives tho former story with additional particulars of the German Government conniving with tho militarist clique in persistent efforts to evade the disarmament clauses ■of tho Versailles Treaty, maintaining/ conditions whereby a new, largo, and wellequipped army can bo called up at a moment’s notice. “Tho Times" states that information received leads to the conclusion that the German Government is attempting to make provision for clothing, personnel,' depots, and material for an army of eight hundred thousand, and urges the necessity for Allied control and scrutiny of Germany’s intentions, now that tho question of withdrawal of tho inter-Allied control commission has arisen, and because the limitation of armaments stands foremost in tho agenda paper at the Washington conference. Times” adds: "We do not wish to raise a cry of alarm, but Europe can only' bo at peace if Germany, is certainly anti surely at peace. The new German Republic is at once a confession of failure.” "The Times” declares that there is much evidence, to show how 'Swiftly tho mobilisation of the new army is being interwoven with the very structure of tho republic, and points out Germany’s enormous engineering resources, with the unrivalled facilities for production of poison gas, which, despite the recent unexplained explosion, can unobtrusively and without difficulty bo reconverted into plant 1 for tho production of munitions. —"The Times.” [According to a message from Berlin published yesterday,' Hl+.t Wirth, tho Chancellor, in an interview, claimed that Germany had completed disarmament.]

REPARATION PAYMENTS ALLIES’ DEMANDS DECLARED ' IMPOSSIBLE. By Telegraph— Press Association-Copyright. (Roc. September 27, 0.40 a.m.) - i Paris, September 26." Speaking at Essen, Dr v 'Simons stfltcd that every impartial observer recognised that, the payments demanded by the Allies could not be made. Germany was not in a position to supply coin in the sums demanded, even for one year. The only way to settle the monetary matters seemed to bo tho granting of long-term credits, for which Germany looked to America, but there the situation had changed. Dr. Simons advocated international conferences to settle the problems of exchange and raw material.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.