GERMANY AFRAID
FRANCE'S ARMAMENTS
A GENERAL'S PROTEST
BERLIN, Ist December. General Groener, Minister.of Defence, when interviewed, vigorously protested that "Prance was not carrying out her solemn undertaking to disarm after Germany had done so. He said that this must result in an unbearable disproportion of armaments in Europe. The Intor-Allied Disarmament Commission had confiscated 130,----000 machine guns in < Germany, 60,000 guns, 15,700 aeroplanes, and 7700 aeroplane engines; and,, of 10,000 factories capable of making armaments, 600 had been destroyed and others were so transformed as to be useless for mili- j tary purposes. Germany could now bo over-run by tho French and Bolgian standing armies I of 740,000 men, 1600 v aeroplanes, and 2000 tanks.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 132, 2 December 1930, Page 11
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