DISARMING GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 16990, 12 March 1919, Page 3

DISARMING GERMANY

ARMY MAXIMUM 100,000. FOOD SCHEME READY. Prwa Animation—By Telegraph—Copyright. B*uter's Telegrami. PARIS, March 10. The preliminary Peace Treaty will include a clause requiring Germany to surrender the officials responsible for war \ Crimea for trial by an international tribunal. It is an open secret that Mr Lloyd George considers the disarmament question _ the touchstone of the Conference. ■His insistence that Germany must disarm is a first step to a general" policy for all the nations. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. LONDON, March 10. The Press Bureau states that according to a Paris communique the Supreme War Council discussed the report of the military experts presented by Marshal Foch relative to the definite military status of Germany. The terms of the report were fixed, and its conclusions adopted. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, March 10. The ' Daily Chronicle's' Paris correspondent says that the final decision -of the Conference limits the German army to 100.000 12-year volunteers. This decision was reached after M. Clemenceau, Mr Lloyd George, and Colonel House conferred privately during the morning. It means the doom of Conscription evervwhere. The 'Daily Express's' Paris correspondent states that the Supreme War Council's suggestion that the German armv he limited "to 250.000 was a compromise. Marshal's Foch's suggestion wns 150.000, the American suggestion 500.000, and .Mr Llovd George's proposal 50.000 to 70.000. The 'Pall Mall Gazette' states that Mr Lloyd George's return to Paris resulted in a great speeding up of the work of the Conference. The scheme of feeding Germany is readv. Thousands of tons of foodstuffs which have accumulated will be poured in directly peace is signed, which is definitely assured before the"end of the month. The Allies will retain control nf the distribution of food and other necessaries. GERMAN MERCHANTMEN. PARTS. March 10. The negotiations which were interrupted at Spa will be resumed at Brussels on Wednesdav. when Admiral Lord Wemyss (for the Allies) will demand the unconditional surrender of merchantmen. WAR CRIMINALS. PARIS. March _lO. It is suggested that if the ex-Kaiser cannot be extradited, an international indictment should be published branding him as the world's gieatest criminal, leaving his punishment to posterity's opinion. LONDON. March 10. The, 'Morning Post's' Constantinople correspondent states that General Liman Von Sanders has been arrested while en route to Germanv. He was taken to Malta. He will he brought to Constantinople and tried for offences against Christians. RUSSIANS LEAVE RUHLEBEN. AMSTERDAM, March 10. While soldiers who were guarding the Ruhleben camp were called away to suppress rioting at Spand.ni., 5.000 Russians escaped, and are wandering about the country terrorising ihe peasantry. BERLIN BOMBS. jf LONDON. March 10. The '/Daily Express's ' Berlin correspondent asserts 'that airmen bombed the Spartacist strongholds in Berlin and the underground railways, using heavy bombs which penetrated tunnels. ' The correspondent savs deadly fights occurred in the tunnels, as" the bombs often entombed friend and foe. THE ANCONA TRAGEDY. PARIS, Marcvh 10. A military tribunal at Palermo seiftenced to rionth the former clerk of t"h<? German Consnlate on a charge of signalling the movements of ships to the Austrian submarines, which were responsible for the torpedoing of the steamer Ancona. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. AMSTERDAM. March 10. The ' Xieuwe Counint' states that the. Belgians spized Dutch boats, claiming the right to use neutral property found in a belligerent country. STRAND RIOTS. LONDON. March 10. An American military police major says that the game the sailors were playing in the Strand is lawful in America; but it is stated that their own military police, in addition to the London civil police, frequently warned the players that the ganio a-ns illegal in England. Admiral Sims immediately recalled all American sailors from leave in London. Additional American patrols were held in readiness to assist in the maintenance of order. The Canadian officials deny that the Canadians participated. NEW ZEALAND REPATRIATION. LONDON. March 10. It is officially stated that 26,205 New Zealanders have been repatriated since the armistice. [The cable news in this issue accredited to 'The Times' has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such new» the editorial opinion of ' The Timea.']