GERMAN DISARMAMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19844, 17 July 1926, Page 11

GERMAN DISARMAMENT

LATEST FRENCH DEMANDS. CHARGES AGAINST GENERAL VON SEECKT. (Press Association—Ey Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, July 16 (Received July 16, at 5.5 p.m.) Official circles are puzzled concerning the reported demands against Germany by General Walsch the French President of the Inter-Allied Commission of Control, regarding disarmament, which suggest the suppression of General von Seeckt. It is disclosed from French sources that the charges against General von Seeckt are as follows: ,1) That he still holds direct communication with the army group commanders of the Reichswehr; (2) that he has assumed tho functions of director of military training; (3) that he has been recently promoted from the rank of General of Infantry to Colonel-General, which is just below the Field-Marshal General. —A. and N.Z. Cable. A HIGH HANDED ACTION. GENERAL WALSCH CRITICISED. LONDON, July 15. (Received July 16, at 11 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent observes that whether such charges deserve to be treated as substantial or the reverse the fact remains that they had been made the subject by General Walsch of observations fraught with serious political consequences, and this without the Ambassadors’ Conference or the British Government being -isulted beforehand, although the matter was not purely a Franco-German affair. It would bo a flimsy argument that General Walsch while acting on his own initiative, may have believed that he was within the general instructions issued long since by the Ambassadors’ Conference before the Reich passed legislation reducing General ■ seckt from the position of Comma; gor-in-Chief to technical adviser to the Reichwehr Minister.—A. and N.Z. Cable.