ARMAMENTS IN EUROPE
COMPLAINT FROM GERMANY. UNBEARABLE. DISPROPORTION. tUnlted Press Association.) (By .Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, December 1. , (Received Dec. 2, at 0.15 a.m.) General Groener, who was interviewed, vigorously protested that France was not carrying out her solemn undertaking to disarm after Germany had done so. He said that this must result in an unbearable disproportion of armament in Europe. The InterAllied Disarmament Commission had confiscated 130,000 machine guns in Germany. 60,000 guns, 15.700 aeroplanes. 27,700 aeroplane engines, and of 10,000 factories which were capable of making armaments 600 had been destroyed, while others were so transformed as to be useless for military purposes. Germany could now be overrun by the French and Belgian standing armies of 740,000 men, 1600 aeroplanes, and 2000 tanka.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21198, 2 December 1930, Page 9
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