ARMED FORCES.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1923, Page 5

ARMED FORCES.

GROWTH IN GERMANY,' By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, April 20. The intensity of feeling aroused by the growth of irregular armed forces in Germany, both Nationalist and Socialist, was illustrated by simultaneous debates in the Reichstag and the Bavarian Diet. In the latter case the Socialists accused the Government of conniving a» the formation of bodies which were leading to civil war or war witii France. The Bavarian Minister for the Interior, Herr Schweyer, praised the Nationalist movement as healthy and most welcome, but he would not allow it to interfere with politics or to dis. turb international peace. The Socialists’ demand for the dissolution of the irregulars was rejected. There was a similar debate in the Reichstag concerning the growth of “meeting protection guards” which are being formed by both sides agains: interference by extremists. Reports from Munich show that the Nationalists, heartened by the vote in (the Bavarian Diet, are more than ever determined to prevent the arrest of their leaders, though it is understood some Bavarian Ministers dissent from Herr Schweyer’s eulogy of the Nationalists’ fire-eating activities.