GERMANY’S TROOPS
THE OLD MILITARY SPIRIT. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received this day at 31.10 a.m.) Berlin January 13. Tu tlu’ Prussian Assembly Herr Luttwig, an Independent member, criticised an item on .the Estimates of a. thousand million marks for the upkeep of tlu< military police. He declared that the force was composed of old army officers and men, who were retaining the old spirit. Huge sums were spent to create' billets for reactionary officers. There was actually one officer to every 24 men. Herr Hoffman declared that- the. defence 'troops constituted the new army which could he directed against Germany or a foreign Power. The Estimates thereupon were refeired back to the Committee'.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2678, 14 January 1921, Page 6
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