GERMAN PROPOSALS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22461, 3 July 1936, Page 11

GERMAN PROPOSALS

LAST WORD PENDING

SPEEDY REARMAMENT

LONDON, July 1

The Morning Post's Berlin correspondent says ho understands that Germany's reply to the British questionnaire on Berlin's peace proposals is ready. Herr Hitler's advisers, be states, are advocating convening the Reichstag to announce the details and to emphasise that it is Germany's last offer. Germany is closely watching the discussions at the Montreux Conference on the Dardanelles, and considers it would be discrimination against her if Russia were allowed to proceed to the Baltic from the Black Sea. If concessions are made to Russia, Germany will probably demand a revision of the naval agreement with Britain, on the ground that the naval balance of power would be upset.

British circles do not sop justification for such an attitude and point out that free ogress for lior Fleet through the Dardanelles lias always been .Russia's right. The Manchester Guardian's Berlin correspondent reports an intensification of the speed of German rearmament, especially in the air, and says 50 firstline aeroplanes arc being completed each month.

The High Command lias resolved to have 3300 first-line aeroplanes and 2800 in reserve by the beginning - A f 1937. Anti-aircraft defence is proceeding at a similar speed