LAND ARMAMENT.
PROPOSALS OF FRANCE. MENACE OF GERMANY. WAR AMBITIONS DENIED. (From the Special Correspondent of the Australian Press Assn.) Received Nov. 23, 8.55 p.m. Washington, Nov. 22. M. Briand (Premier of France) to-day expressed satisfaction at the manner in which yesterday’s speech was received, and he believed he had achieved the purpose for which he came to Washington. It should be explained that the yearly class of the French army consists normally of 250,000, and if service is cut to eighteen months the active army will total normally 375,000. The proposals do not include the colonial army, mostly colored, of 150,000. The army of occupation on the Rhine will not be reduced. Herr Edmund von Therman, the new German Charge d’Affaires, ( to-day denied M. Briand’s charge that the* German nation was a potential war machine. He affirmed that Germany had been practically stripped of arms, and manufacturers had been converted to peace-time production. He was sure Germany would be willing to give further guarantees against war-making to any international tribunal.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1921, Page 5
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171LAND ARMAMENT. Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1921, Page 5
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