DISARMING GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17130, 8 April 1919, Page 9

DISARMING GERMANY.

DRASTIC PEACE TERMS.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.

STRINGENT RESTRICTIONS.

PARIS. Mar. 25. The military, naval, and aerial terms as finally adopted comprise 56 clauses, arranged in five sections, with numerous sub-chapters. I They provide, inter alia, that all ma-' torial and guns of non-German origin shall also he surrendered, and the importation of war material prohibited. I Conscription shall be abolished in Ger- ! many. The army must he recruited by voluntary enlistment for 12 consecutive years, and not more than 5 per cent, must. be discharged annually. ' Officers must undertake to serve until they are 45 years of age, with at least 'ib consecutive years on the active list. Former officers will be prohibited from. partaking in theoretical or practical mili- : ury exercises. Only indispensable military schools will bo permitted, and these will be exclusively restricted to the toning of olhcers according to the prescribed number. ! Other military schools will be abolished, and educational establishments, universities, societies, schooling, and touring clubs, or any other associations, must not concern themselves with military matters, whatever the age of their members. They are particularly forbidden the exercise in the use of arms, or to have any connection with the Ministry of War. I All measures for mobilisation will bo forbidden, and all supplementary cadres will also be forbidden. All German warships which are not in German ports must cease to be German property. The warships now interned by the Allies are to be finally surrendered. An article prescribing that eight battle- , ships, numerous cruisers, and torpedo-; boats shall be surrendered, has been reserved for further consideration. | Certain coastal works must be de-1 Btroyeri, and fortifications interfering with the free passage of the Baltic are forbidden. All other fortified works within 30 miles of the coast may be considered de-; tensive, and may remain in Heir present j state, with a schedule of supplies and am-. munition. ! The Kiel Canal must be dismantled, I but its final fate is reserved. Wireless telegraphic stations must be strictly restricted to commercial purposes, the Allies deciding the wave-lengths. A full list is i given of the German fleet auxiliaries, including the Seydlitz.' The air personnel shall be demobilised, j except for 1000 officers and men, including all (lying and non-flying formations. Until German territory is completely evacuated Allied airmen shall have a free passage over German territory, with the right of landing. i'he manufacture and importation of aeroplanes of any sort, or dirigibles is forbidden until the final treaty is signed, and all existing material must be handed over to the Allies, including 'planes, airships, hvdroplanes, sheds, and hangars. Meanwhile, airships must be kept inflated, and aeroplanes, guns, bomb-drop-ping apparatus, torpedoers, synchronisation apparatus, aimers, cartridges, bombs, wireless instruments, photographic and cinematographic apparatus, and detached parts, must be handed over. | The remaining clauses provido for inter- j Allied Commissions of Control, charged with the dutv of inspecting the complete execution of the clauses. They will communicate the Allied decisions to Germany, and travel wherever they wish, taking delivery of arms, and ordering demolitions, all at Germany's expense. Germany pays the commission's costs. The naval and aerial' sections will make the most careful inventories.