MILITARY POWER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22476, 21 July 1936, Page 9

MILITARY POWER

GERMANY ON THE RHINE REINFORCING GARRISONS AERODROME NEAR FRONTIER By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 20, 5.55 p.m.) LONDON, July 20 Signs are not lacking of Germany's increasing military power. It is significant, the Daily Herald reports, that the garrisons on the left bank of the Rhine are to be considerably reinforced following upon General von Blomberg's inspection of the Rhineland and the Palatinate. A IJhincland newspaper, in announcing the reinforcement plans, declares that France will realise that the province is no longer a no-man's-land. The Herald points out that not only have the pre-war garrison towns been re-occupied, but also smaller towns never before carrisoned. Germany is spending £24,000,000 on railway reconstruction designed to spoed up communication between south-western Germany and the French and Luxemburg frontiers. A big military aerodrome is being constructed at Enheim, which is less than three miles from the French frontier. AUSTRIA AS ALLY ARMY CO-ORDINATION COMMISSIONS AT WORK SMALLER POWERS FRIENDLY (Received July 20, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, July 20 The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says:—Although Germany denies that a secret military treaty has been signed with Austria it is certain that military preparations are being co-ordinated between Austria and Germany, and commissions are conferring both in Vienna and in Berlin on the subject of the details of the new agreement. A separate commission is discussing army co-ordination. The Vienna press boasts that Austria and Germany are working together and that Italy is cooperating with them. It says the Little Entente is collapsing, that Yugoslavia is friendly toward Germany, that Rumania is looking toward Germany and that even Czechoslovakia seeks friendly relations with Germany. Poland has long been Germany's friend and Hungary bases her foreign policy on friendship with the Reich.