OBSTACLE TO PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1921, Page 5

OBSTACLE TO PEACE.

DANGER OF GERMANY. MACHINERY FOR WAR. EVADING THE TREATY. By Telegraph.— Frees Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 27, 1.5 a.m. London, Sept. 25. The Times, despite official German contradictions, revives the former story, with additional particulars, of the German Government conniving with the militarist clique in persistent efforts to evade the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty, and maintaining conditions whereby a large and well equipped army can be called up at a moment’s notice. The Times states that information received leads to the conclusion that the German Government is attempting to make provision for clothing and personnel depots and material for an army of 800,000, and urges the necessity for Allied control and scrutiny of Germany’s intentions, now that the question of the withdrawal of the Inter-Allied Control Commission has arisen, and because the limitation of armaments stands foremost in the agenda at the Washington Conference. The Times adds: “We do not wish to raise a cry of alarm, but Europe can only be at peace Jf Germany is certainly and surely at peace. The new German Republic is at once a confession of failure.” The Times declares there is much evidence to show how swiftly the mobilisation of a new army is being interwoven with the very structure of the Republic, and points out Germany’s enormous engineering resources, with her unrivalled facilities for the production of poison gas, which, despite the recent unexplained explosion, can unobtrusively and without difficulty be reconverted into plant for the production of munitions.—Times Service.