NEW GERMAN ARMY

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27860, 7 January 1956, Page 9

NEW GERMAN ARMY

U.S. Arms And Training (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 6. A North Atlantic Treaty plan for rearming Germany, which involves the supply of United States weapons for the Western German forces and their training under American personnel, comes into force this month, says the Bonn correspondent of "The Times.” The first arms deliveries will be light weapons and equipment for basic training. Tanks, aircraft, training vessels and heavy armaments will be moved in, as mutually agreed, and in step with the progress of German training. The equipment will be. similar to that currently in use by other N.A.T.O. countries. Certain specific training in handling the equipment will be provided by American instructors at German and United States bases in Germany and at centres and service schools m the United States. Most of the United States Army training assistance will be given at German centres and a start will be made with the transfer of 29 instructors to Andernach in the middle of the month. There will also be members of the German forces as students at United States Army schools in Europe. Early this month, officers and airmen of the new German Air Force will begin to arrive at United States training bases where they will undergo "indoctrination and orientation training” by German officials before entering on pilot z and technical courses available to them as servicemen of a N.A.T.O. member nation. The pilots will begin their training m Harvards. Afterwards, they will get instruction in T 33 jet trainers.

FRENCH ATOMIC PILE

(Rec. 10 p.m.) PARIS, January 6. France's first industrial atomic pile will start working in the “atomic city” of Marcoule, South of France, in a few days. A heat of 300 degrees Centigrade (572 degrees Fahrenheit) produced by nuclear reaction in the pile will make steam to drive the turbines of a power station producing electricity for industry., It will also produce plutonium* to be used as “atomic fuel” for ships.