GERMANY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 July 1924, Page 11

GERMANY

INSPECTION OF ARMAMENTS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received July 1, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, June 30. Germany conditionally agrees to the inspection of armaments as cabled on March 5. —Reuter. ■[The proposals were that an inter- ■ Allied commission is to verify in' Germany whether during 1923 Germany engaged m new-military preparations, and whether disarmament can to-day be considered finally completed. If. the German Government' agrees to the inquiry and the results are: satisfactory, then the Allies will appoint a committee of guarantors, or a similar effective organisation. The German Government must, as a preliminary, reply .in satisfactory terms to. the five demands of the 1922 Note, dealing with amendments to jaws concerning the export of arms and the demilitarisation of the police.]

REPLT TO AMBASSADORS’ NOTE,

Received July 1. 12.10.p.m. . PARIS. June 30. , A forecast of the German reoly to the Ambassadors’ note on .the’ subject of mter-Allied military control accepts lesnmption, provided it' is deferred for a month; secondly, that the Control Commission shall resume its mission bv an inspection of factories'; 'thirdlv, that the Commission’s investigations be limited to seeing that laws are promulgated prohibiting dealing- in war material, the carrying out of destruction and mobilisation plans and ; the nonexistence of. armed forces: contrary -to the Versailles Treaty. ' The first stipulation. is stated to be to enable the preparation of German public opinion, but it is believed iir Paris tbat ; it is merely to create a postponement until the results of the London, conference on July 16 becomes, known. The note disregards tlie Ambassadors’ : additional claim that the commission make ah inventory of Germany armaments. which, if it turned out-to be reassnrino-; would result in the limitation of Allied attention to the supervision, and use of police in the disposal of: existing war material.—-Reuter. ,