“A WORLD IN ARMS.”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 5 April 1926, Page 9

“A WORLD IN ARMS.”

Allegations Against U.S.A.

GERMAN PRESS SYMPOSIUM.

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Sydney "Sun” Service. (Received April 4, 6.5 p.m.) BERLIN, April 2. The reactionary newspaper “Boersen Zeitung,” in a symposium on national armament, published under the heading: "A World in Arms Encircles Us,” pictures the United States as one of the most warlike countries on the earth. The paper says: "American schoolboys begin training for the army as boy scouts, with rifle ranges in the basement of every schooihouse. High School and College students are enrolled in a compulsory reserve: The War Department has established summer training camps, in which during 1924, citizens were trained to the number three times the strength of the German army.

IS GERMANY ARMING? ROME JOURNAL’S SENSATIONAL ARTICLE. By Coble —Press Association —Copyright Reuter's Telegrams, (Received April 4, 5.5 p.m.) ROME, April 3. "Fahne,” the Communist organ, publishes a sensational article, saying that full-fledged military manoeuvres, with aerial observations and armoured cars and tanks, begin on April 5, involving 8500 members of the steel-helmeted league, the most powerful of Germany’s militant and monarchists societies. • A league officer said the paper had deliberately exaggerated the yearly held exercises, in which no special airplanes were used. The paper was endeavouring to embarrass the Franco-German air negotiations nearing conclusion in Paris.