EVADING THE TREATY

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 November 1933, Page 5

EVADING THE TREATY

GERMAN RE-ARMAMENTS SECRET REPORT DISCLOSURES [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] BRUSSELS, November 11. Senator Dordolet to-day, told the newspapers that the inter-Allied Commission’s report was printed ‘secretly on a Government printing press at Paris in 1927. Copies were sent only to the Allied Governments. The report emphasised the Disarmament Commission’s difficulties in controlling the German armaments, owing to the opposition shown. It enumerated subterfuges whereby Germany retained armaments, ranging from secret hoards of forbidden arms to chemical factories. The report declares specifically that Germany in 1927 was far removed from the disarmament which the Versailles Treaty imposed. Senator Dordolet states that the late M. Briand threw the inter-Allied report on German disarmament into the wastepaper basket, and that the Commission was dissolved before it had completed its work. Senator Dordolet’s wife is a Frenchwoman, belonging to a family of French Army officers, this fact, perhaps, accounting for Senator Dordolet’s possession of the dossier but he refuses to state the source whence he obtained it.

Senator Dordolet adds that he also had a copy of the official report of the Ambassadors’ Conference on January 12, 1933, on the question of whether Germany had fulfilled the Versailles Treaty obligations. This is not the first threat to publish the dossier. M. Tardieu. exFrench Premier, threatened to do so. M. Paul Boncour recently Similarly pressed for it, but its publication was widely opposed on the ground that it would wreck the Disarmament Conference. Moreover the dossier contains a great deal of evidence requiring verification.

“COMPLETE FABRICATION.”

BERLIN, Novembei- 11.

German official circles declare that Senator Dordolet’s statement that Germany never disarmed is a complete fabrication.

FRENCH CHAMBER’S DEBATE

PARIS, November 10.

“Stand up as public accuser! The fate of freedom is in your hands!” cried M. Mandel, who formerly was the late M. Clemenceau’fe associate, amid general cheers in the Chamber of Deputies, in urging that M. Sarraut, should open a discussion on Germany’s armaments. M. Mandel declared that successive German Governments had secretly evaded the peace Treaties, but since the advent of the Nazis, he said, Germany had openly been arming. He added: “Germany to-day is an arm'ed camp. The Reichwehr, with the Auxiliary Police or Militia, would be able to produce an army of between eight and nine hundred thousand men, which would be twice the size of the French home forces. Germany is building aeroplanes on a large scale. She has ordered hundreds of speedy fighting planes. Moreover, there are eighteen German factories capable of building 25,000 planes in a month.” He said that Germany possessed guns, minethrowers, machine-guns and factories greatly in excess of the Treaty limits. She could mobilise her men and her factories in a few days. “London could be destroyed in a few nights, and England’s fate, accoi ding to German specialists, could be settled in three weeks,” declared Deputy Taittinger. Insisting on France’s need of having allies, he urged: “It is in the British interest to join us, as Britain has already gone too far on the road to disarmament with her fleet and her air force, and she is unable to supply protection.” . The debate was adjourned (until Tuesday next, when M. Boncoui ieplies for the Government.

FRENCH PREMIER’S STATEMENT

PARIS, November 11. M Sarraut unveiled a monument to* the late M. Briand, at Cocherel. He recalled M. Briand s work foi peace. He added: “If those peoples across our frontiers to whom M. Briand often extended /rance s hand would respond, that strong, resolute hand would always be open In view of there being reports that Germany, after the plebiscite on Sunrlav will be likely to propose the reorganisation of the League of Nations Council enabling Germany to» ie it on a different basis, it is author ita Hvelv stated that the French Government will not consider such a pi P °Oii the other hand, in connection with a Geneva report that there 13 Sre possibility of Germany, with Itolv’s approval, summoning a conte e,ee “ Britain. France, Italy, manv Belgium, Holland and the Little Entente Powe 's, it Is believed that nee would agree thereto, provided tea’t “ny °declsions taken were -.bmitted to the League of Nations.

BRIAND STATUE DAMAGED. (Received November 13, 9.30 a.m ) v PARIS, November 12. Vandals with hammers nearly demolished the bronze statue of MBriand, set amid the Normandy fields at 'n,e eb sla’tue n ' larger than showed M. Briand accepting an oln e branch from a child m rt> mothei s arms, while a crippled soldier, is beseeching him to make wars impossible. CONFERENCE /PROSPECTS GENEVA, November 11. The President of the Disarmament Conference, Mr. A. Henderson, made an impassioned appeal to expedite the work of disarmament. . The Italian delegates did not think that the continuance of the work would be useful, but stated they would collaborate in order to demonstrate solidarity, though they did not consider that the experts would be more than observers.

A PROFESSOR’S OPINION.

CALGARY, November 10

“The Women of North America could abolish any war threat from Japan by refusing to buy silk,” states Doctor Alfred Zimmern, Professor of International Relations at Oxford Uni-