GERMAN ARMAMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12076, 2 March 1925, Page 8

GERMAN ARMAMENTS

SECRET PREPARATIONS • GE&MAN BREACHES OF TREATY % DISCOVERED BY ALLIES. . SKELETON OF BIG ARMY. €: ' V By $ Telegraph—-Press Assn.—Copyright. N.Z. Cable Association, i (Received March I, 5.5 p.m.) * V ', LONDON, February 28. Qolonel, Rppincton, writing in the says: “The contends of the itfter-Allied report on German: disarmament have become widely, known in the Allied capitals, therefore there is no reason why its purport shasild not be stated. The first part of thdSreport deals with the relentless obstruction to which Allied officers were subjected by the German military auajorities. It is a tribute to the Al-' lie* officers that tliey discovered anyTheir chief disqoveries mainly warn (toe to,surprise visits. My own roqhlUsiop is that most possibly only thg£ smalt -proportions of the infraction Of the- Treaty have been revealed. « German, General Staff, instead ig dissolved, has been reconstiantj now consists of. 250.” Repington asks: “If five miljops in 1014 required a general. 341, to what total strength do respond?*’ «i i. THE REIGHSWEHR. SSeichswehr is now a great Skeleton of an army), . round o, natiorvcan form in the hour r. f * Woodqr ‘models of antim aret being used for training purposes until guns- arrive. . . Cavalry ereibji&y- with : heavy machine-guns. Arfeoired cars, are much favoured.. N«fee (of these .figures in armaments is-' alb&fdl by’the'Treaty.; xSTKe intor-Allied. Commission gatheredtjthat it is the intention to release 25, per cent, of the annually; in order to pass more - men through training. This would be against the Treaty provisions. rThe report. draws particular attention to the finds-of secret-stores, indicating that -the manufacture of new War, materials has been resumed withpermission, though the amounts generally do .not exceed.,the -.annual- al-. lowance. Much of the factory, machinery' that was ordered to be de-‘ strayed still exists. In fact, all the factories have shown a disinclination to reduce plant to the 1 - - authorised scale.” - -<<■ DUPLICITY MUST END.. .* Summing Repington says the report does not warrant panic measures against Germany, hut it does warrant that she he brought to book, and compelled to end the duplicity and cease certain activities.