The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-05-09
Safety of Europe and the
World Require
Them
WILL PUT DOWN EVIL
Army and Navy Reduced to Police
Force, Military Service Abolished
and Power Crippled

LONDON, May 9-The London
Times in an editorial discussing the
terms says:
"The military and naval conditions
are undeniably severe, but not in our
opinion a whit more stringent than
the safety of Europe and of the world
require. They provide for the reduc-
ton of the German army to force
which must at no time exceed 100000
men. 1t is said that Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg has twice that num-
ber under his command at this mo-
ment.
"They limit the German armaments
on land and German stocks of ammu-
milton to very small figures. The scale
may be judged by the restriction of
Germany's AZ guns, the heaviest
is to be allowed to have, to no more
than 184. Of her heavy machine
guns, the limit is 756. The AZ guns
are to be 'rationed' on about $1,000
rounds, and field guns on 100000
rounds.
"Still more fatal to an early revival
of 'militarism,' are provisions de-
signed to destroy the institution
which breathed its evil spirit into the
old German army and into the Ger
man people. The great general staff
and all like-organization are to dis
appear The number of officers is not
to exceed the 1000 officers now in
service, who are retained. They must
remain in it until they are forty
five, and new officers must be kept
upon the active list for twenty-five
years. Retired officers must not take
part in military training and are to
be free from all military obligations.
There is to be but one military school
for each arm, and military training
in other schools OF by associations
are not forgotten and are prohibited.
Universal military service is, of
course, abolished, and all possible
care is exercised to prevent a repeti-
tion of the Krumper trick of 1807-12.
Similar measures are taken to pre-
| vent the German navy from recover
ing from it's defeat. 1t, too, is strictly
rationed in men and in ships. 1t is
to consist of not more than six heavy
battleships, as many light cruisers
and a dozen destroyers and torpedo
boats. Germany is to possess no
submarines, not even for purposes of
commerce. The personnel is to be
reduced to $4,000 all told, including
1,50O officers and warrant officers.
Here, too, rigorous precautions
against evasion are prescribed.
Germany is to have no airplanes
after October 1, and no dirigibles.
The air forces are to be demobilized
and all aviation grounds within $50
kilometers of the right bank of the
Rhine are to be ploughed up, and all
Notifications of so miles east of the
river are to be dismantled. All of
these provisions are to be carried out
within periods fixed at two or three
months from the signature of the
| treaty.
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"The articles on reparation may
not seem so satisfactory, but the prin-
ciple that Germany is to accept re-
sponsibility for all loss and damage
she has done, apears to be accepted.
At the same time we are told that
the Allies recognize her inability and
the inability of her confederates to
make this loss and damage good. Ap-
parently, she is to be obliged to make
good all the damage to "civilian po-1
pulations' of the regions she has de-
vastated. How much further her
obligations are to be enforced re-
mains obscure and she is to have
thirty years, long day, to pay what
an inter-allied commission shall de-
eide to be the whole sum she is to
pay. While this seems still to be
undetermined, the installments pay
able in 1919 and 1920, are fixed by
the treaty at $5,000,000,0O0. The AL
lies take the power to decide that part
| navmpnt of this amount NAV be made