COLOGNE EVACUATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1925, Page 2

COLOGNE EVACUATION.

[Reuters Telegrams.J AIR GARVIN’S VI 1C AYS. LONDON. Jan. 0. Air Garvin, in a remarkable article in the “Observer,” says: “There is no disarmament ot German intellect. The German is saturated with war mentality, war thinking, war dreams, and outpours able teclmical lierature and vivid popular literature. The spirit of the great General Staff still exisis. No inspection or control on earth can ever suppress it. All the resources of man power and industrial power are accurately known. Nowhere is seientiiic study of the new agencies of war—aerial. chemical, and electrical—more intensely mediated. If an opportunity came, owing to a change in the world’s political, situation, Germany could create a great lighting power in a few months, and would do so. This is the inmost tragedy of Europe, and lho inevitable result of the Treaty of A’er--sailles. Any other people in the present position of the Germans would do the same. TJie foreign occupation of Cologne can only, in these circumstances, be a cumulative incitement, and a diminished security. There can lie no change for the better until the stability of Europe is guaranteed by British policy. AA’e must dispel the dreams of the German Nationalists, who would, if they could, destroy Britain by the aid of France, or Franco by the aid of Britain.”