GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1926, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

[Australia <fc N.Z. Cable Association.! GERMAN SENSATION. BERLIN. April 3. Eoto-Faline, the Communist- organ, publishes a sensational article saying that lull-fledged military manoeuvres with aerial observations and armoured cars, arc to begin April Ot it. involving 8,509 members ot the SteclHelmeted League, the most powerful of Germany's niifitant Mouarchistir Societies. A League officer said the paper had deliberately exaggerated the yearly exercises wherein no special airplanes were endeavouring to embarrass the Fiaiico-Gorman air negotiations nearing conclusion at Paris. AMERICAN MILITARISM. BERLIN, April 2. Tile reactionary newspaper Roerseii Zcitung. in a s.vposiiim on national armaments. published tinder the heading of “The World in arms encircles us I” pictures tho United States as one of the most warlike countries on earth. The paper says American schoolboys begin training for the army as Roy Scouts with rifle ranges in the basements of ever school house, high school and college. The .students are enrolled in a compulsory reserve. The War Department has established summer training camps in which, during 1924, the citizens trained numbered three times the strength, of the German army.