GERMANY MUST DISARM.

Auckland Star, Volume 23, Issue 23, 28 January 1926, Page 7

GERMANY MUST DISARM.

_ ALLIES DENY COMPLIANCE. yRENCH MILITARY CONTROL. TEUTONIC IRRITATION. (By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Receive- li' a.m.i PARIS, January 27. French official circles attach much importance to the revelation in the report of the Inter-Allied Control Committee that Germany has done nothing to carry out reforms in her military organisations and the police, and the transformation of munition factories, upon which tiie Allies insist before the military control of Germany passes into the hands of the League. A semi-official statement from Berlin, denying the foregoing assertion, says that disarmament has been so vigorously prosecuted in the past months that settlement of the majority of points is already concluded or is approaching completion. — ( Reuter. ) DR. LUTHER'S SPEECH. ALLIES AND OCCUPATION. GERMANY AND LEAGUE. (Received 1 p.m.) BERLIN, January 27. Dr. Luther, during a half-hour's speech in the Reichstag, in which he reintroduced himself as Chancellor, referred at some length to the strength of the Allied forces retained in occupied territory, insisting that they should be reduced to the normal peace strength of German garrisons. The new Government's most important decision concerned Germany's entry into the League of Nations. The Government's domestic policy aimed at the reduction of taxation, encouragement of exports, and compelling other countries to abolish differentiations against German goods. Germany's adoption of internationally regulated hours of labour depended upon simultaneous measures being adopted in Britain, France, and Belgium. Conservatives gave notice of motion laying down impossible conditions for Germany's entry into the League.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)