BIG ARMIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1919, Page 5

BIG ARMIES.

TO BE ABOLISHED. ENSURING THE PEACE OF THE WORLD. Paris, March 11. Mr Eraser writes that from exceptional authority he lias learned that the decision to reduce the German army is the beginning of the destruction ot the armed camps in Europe. It is significant that opposition to the proposal came from the military leaders, except in the case of the British. The military leaders preferred the menace of three millions in Germany to being deprived of large armies in their own countries, yet without such a decision as that of yesterday the League of Nations will be merely a scrap of, paper and end in the clash of the great armies sooner or later. The derision will do more fo preserve peac:> in Europe than anything else. It is believed that Germany will accept tho decision, but not without some protest that the proposed army is insufficient to police her country lyThe council agreed to the decision unanimously and it is hardly thought that other countries will require much persuasion to reduce their armies un der the influence of public opinion. The decision may be regarded as opposed to all compulsory training.—Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn.