GERMAN DUPLICITY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 March 1925, Page 5

GERMAN DUPLICITY.

MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS. TRAINING OF TROOPS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION -COP ¥ RIGHT LONDON. Feb, 28. Colonel Repington, writing in the .Daily Telegraph, says: “The contents of the inter-Allied report oil German disarmament have become widely known in the Allied capitals. Therefore there is no reason why the purport of the report should not be stated. “The first part of the report-,” he adds, “deals with the relentless obstruction to which the Allied officers were subjected by the German military authorities. It is a tribute to the Allied officers that they discovered anything. Their chief discoveries were mainly due to surprise visits. My own conclusion is that most possibly only small proportions of the infractions of the treaty have been revealed .

“The German general staff, instead of being dissolved, has been reconstituted and now consists of 250,’’ Colonel Repington says, and he asks : “If five million troops in 1914 required a general staff of 341, to what total strength,do 2qo correspond?” He -proceeds : “The Reichswehr is now the great centre round which the nation can, form in the hour of danger. Wooden models of anti-tank guns are being used for training purposes until the guns arrive. The cavalry are busy with heavy machine guns. Armoured cars are much favoured. None of these figure in the armaments allowed by the treaty. The commission gathered.that it is. the intention to release 25 per cent, of the Reichswehr annually in. order to pass more men, through, training. This would be against the provisions of the treaty. “The report draws particular attention to the finds of secret stores indicating that the manufacture of new war materials has been resumed without permission, though the amounts generally do not exceed 'the annual allowance. Much of the factory machinery that was ordered to be destroyed still exists. In fact, all factories have shown at disinclination, to reduce their plant to the authorised scale.”

Summing no, Colonel Repington tsays the report does not warrant minic measures against Germany, but it does warrant that she be brought to. book and compelled to end her duplicity and cease certain activities.