PREPARE FOR “DER TAG”

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1925, Page 4

PREPARE FOR “DER TAG”

GERMAN DESIRE FOR REVENUE. READINESS FOR AVAR. .Ml 1.1 TAR Y POTENT lALITIES. In spite of Germany’s acquiescence in the application of the Dawes plan to settle the reparations problem alicl the policy of international reeoncili alien which is the basis of the foreign policy of the present Government of Franc-;, millions of Frenchmen believe, and wi'l continue to believe, that the neighbour across the Rhine is animated solelv by the desire that revenge and preparations for a war to carry that wish to realisation. An important political weekly, ' l.a Renaissance Poltique ct l.iteraire, publishes the results of a detail.-d csaiiiinaticii of Germany’s actual mi’dt.i-y potentialities from which it draws the following conclusions: — 1. All Germans without exception are united in the resolve not to carry out the provisions of the A ersailles Ireaty They regard l 1 ’ranee as the great enemy. Even the Communists are ready to participate in a war against F'.'Oiii:h capitalism. 2. All Germans, with the esc -pl.uro of the Communists, are in favour ol the reconstitution of the Imperial at my and are ready to make any sacrifice to attain that object-.

Differences between the German political parties regarding their i litu'i'e towards France are based only -is regards questions of method and opportunity, not as regards their i m. I. German political opinion may be summed up hv saying that the cut' '<■ nation is waiting for the day w.i m that call make its new strength avail able.

NOT FOR DEFENCE. Poison gases and aviation are the subjects on which the German scientists of to-day arc concentrating their attention, according to the weekly. It stresses the minute instructions of the German general staff regarding the employment of poison gases in the military organisations authorised by the A’ersailles Treaty and adds: “ It i.s not for purely defensive aims that so much care has been taken to prescribe these regulations.” It declares that theie are at present 7027 munitions factories in Germany which manufactured war material during the period of hostilities, and which have been merely camouflaged as industrial organisations. Special material serving for the rapid transformation of these laetoi’ies has not been destroyed, hut merely concealed. Regarding aviation, the weekly cites the principal factories outside Germany which are controlled by Germans and in a position to supply tens ol thousands of war machines on short notice. It refers especially to the l'okkor lactorios in Holland, the Doner factories in Italy and Switzerland, a branch of the Rohrhaeli Melalif Lugzcubau in Denmark, and a similar one in Sweden without mentioning the numerous aviation factories in Russia. German railroads, it is claimed, have been so reorganised that they are capable of as complete and rapid mobilisation lor a foreign war as they were in 101 I. Finally, it is declared that the military spirit in the young men of military age has been so well played upon that 00 per cent, of them vote the Nationalist. ticket in elections to the Riechstag while practically all of them, join Liuvoluntary military organisations.