DISARMING OF GERMANY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18916, 3 February 1927, Page 9

DISARMING OF GERMANY.

SETTLEMENT AT LAST. EASTERN FORTIFICATIONS A STUMBLING-BLOCK. IBT CA?Lt-rRESS ASSOCIATIOK-COrTr.IGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND K.I. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (.Received February 2nd, 8.3-5 p.m.) LONDON, February -• An historic scene occurred in Paris yesterday, when the Intcr-Allied Military Control Commission ceased to exist, and the German disarmament question was at last settled three weeks beyond tho time limit fixed at Geneva. Germany haggled with all her might during the negotiations regarding the eastern fortifications, and appeared determined to maintain her demands in the faco of all concessions from the Allies. Tho agreement reached is most complicated, but roughly the Allies permit Germany to retain certaijv works in Lootzcn and Konigsberg, inasmuch as tliev ore not considered tu be an increase of defensive strcngtl, but stipulate tho destruction of tho principal works south of Konigsberir and those at Kustrin and Glogau, which might be considered dangerous from the point of view of Poland. Germany undertakes to construct no, now works on the frontier zone defined in the agreement, nnd eives her w?rd tnnt no other fortifications exist thaji those disclosed.

With roferenre to war material, Germanv undertakes to ret a Bill passed hv tho Reichstaiz prohibiting the manufacture of warships, submarines, boilers and ermines for warships, naval Runs, apparatus for the projection of poison "ns and flames. periscopes, armour plntinc. tanks, armoured cars, uronades, bomhs, air torpedoes, minethrowers, machine-euns, . rifles, revolvers. and motor transport for militnrv purposes. These art) only the most imnortant provisions in a very lengthy document.