STORM BREWING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 15 March 1935, Page 5

STORM BREWING

GERMAN REARMAMENT Violation of Peace Treaty REVENGE FOR WHITE PAPER (By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright.) (Received 15, 9.20 a.m.) PARIS, March 14. A storm is brewing over Germany’s air rearmament, France maintaining that the cardinal point of the policy decided at Romo and Loudon is that no Power has the right to modify her obligations unilaterally. Newspapers describe it as the first official violation of the Versailles Treaty. The “Echo de Paris” says: Doubtless Herr Hiller flutters himself at having revenge for the White Paper, but it remains to be seen whether France, Britain and Italy will submit to blackmail. “Le Matin” says; Germany has anticipated advantages which ought to have been granted her only after her participation iu other instruments of peace. The “Manchester Guardian’s” Berlin correspondent says: The German view is that German rearmament in general and air rearmament in par ticular is indisputably legal. No Power, it is declared, has the slightest right to complain. Germany is only insisting on the same rights as other Powers, whose failure to disarm has compelled Germany to rearm. “There is now no chance of reducing either air or land armaments by means of a treaty,” says one commentator. “Germany, in fact, is sceptical regarding the possibility of any useful convention and is not without confidence iu her own military strength.”

FRANCE’S DEFENCES

Military Service Question (Received 15, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, March 14. “The Times” Paris correspondent states that Al. Flandin intends to make the Chamber’s vote regarding two years’ military service a question of confidence. Ho expects a majority owing to the patriotic enthusiasm that always greets national defence although the result of the municipal elections is causing some doubts. Al. Herriot at a party conference emphasised that the Germans are equipped with the most modern armaments and organisation, and expressed tho opinion that an invasion could better be met with fewer properlyequipped men and a stronger air force.