HISTORIC SCENE.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1927, Page 3

HISTORIC SCENE.

GERMAN ARMAMENTS.

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[IIY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

LONDON, Feb. 2

A historic scene occurred in Peris yesterday when the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission ceased to exist, and the German disarmament question was at last settled, three weeks beyond tho time limit fixed at Geneva.

Geriiutby lias haggled with all her might during tho negotiations regarding her eastern fortifications, and she appeared determined to maintain her (lemj-.iid in the face of all the concessions from the Allies. The agreement reached is a most complicated one. but, roughly, tho Allies permit Germany to retain certain military works in Loelzen and Konigsberg inasmuch as they are considered to he an inero.ise of defensive strength, hut the Allies stipulate the destruction of the principal works south of Konigs■borg, and those'al Kustrin and Glogau, which might he considered dangerous from the point of view of Poland. Germany undertakes to construct no new works on the frontier zone, as defined in the agreement, anil she gives her word that no other fortifications exist, than those disclosed. M’ith reference to war material. Germany undertakes to get a Bill passed by the Reichstag, prohibiting tho manufheture of warships and submarines, and of boilers and engines for such ships, and also prohibiting the making of naval guns, apparatus for the projection of poison gas and flames, periscopes, (armour plating tanks, armoured cars, grenades, bombs, air torpedoes, minethrowers, machine guns, rifles, revolvers and motor transport for military purposes. Those are only the most important provisions in a very lengthy document. Tho Bill which the German Government has undertaken to pass includes the prohibition of the import or export of war material, the prohibition of the manufacture, storage, or trading in material for internal use ranging from artillery to field-kitchens, and including submarines, periscopes, tanks and warships, boilers; also a, prohibit ion or Hie manufacture of the components of war mUterial and machinery and their production, although parts normally utilizahlo for other purposes are exempted.