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What 10 Going On In Germany?


What 10 Going On In Germany?
While the Allies have been alb
league of nations, with the Fiume
problem and the Shantung deal, their
away from Germany until domestic
disturbances there turned their eyes
again In her direction. The fighting
in Berlin, the proclamations of de-
Tense by arms issued by the fac
tons, the Ruhr valley episode and
similar happenings have raised the
question Of where Germans get their
munitions and how they can indulge
in such diversions when they are by
the treaty stripped OF practically all
thcir former military equipment and
are supposed to be impotent.
Investigations carried on by
France disclosed some startling
facts which seem to show that things
are not exactly as they are supposed
10 be and that the good faith of the
German sisners of the treaty is
open to serious question. These are
some items taken from the report
of the French investigators:
In the event of mobilization on
1la in, he oil
100000 men.
She has secretly REINFORCED her
war machine which was virtually
shattered in 1918.
Officers are available to command
an army of 1000. OOo.
In Brandenburg, a suburb Of Ber-
lin. $500 3-inch field. guns were
found massed.
Throughout the entire country
1900 of these guns have been dis
covered.
Intact airplanes to the number of
5000 are in possession Of the Ger
mans.
This information together with
other discoveries made in Germany
is taken in France as indicating
that the former enemy is endeav-
oring TO avoid carrying out the terms
Of the treaty. 1t is pointed out that
the time limit on some three score
Of the provisions Of the treaty has
expired ard they have not been ex-
ecuted. The German excess war ma
terial was to have been delivered to
the Allied commission March 10, but
the Germans said it made no differ
ence whether the material were de-
livered or destroyed and that they
preferred to destroy it. There is no
evidence. however, that they have
done either. According to the treaty
duced to 100000 men by April 10. but
no move in this direction has been
made. The coal deliveries have not
been kept up. nor have the repara-
tons funds been regulated for pay
ment; the submarine deliveries have
been only partly executed and moth
ingh as been done regarding the de-
livery Of arms and munitions or de-
mobilization of the naval forces
In the face Of all these revelations
Of Germany's hardness and the un-
avoidable suspicion of intended
treachery, she has the consummate
nerve to ask that she be allowed to
station troops in the neutral and &C.
cupied zones, giving as her excuse
the necessity of preserving order in
the Ruhr valley. Then without wait
ing for the permission to be granted,
she has actually sent regular army
troops to the edge OF the allied zone
where, advices say no excuse can be
found for sending them.
On November Is, 1918, four days
after the armistice, this newspaper
said editorially:
1T Is the utmost folly to assume that
a complete change OF heart has taken
place over night. Never a word of re-
pentance has come from them (the Ger
mans), not the faintest suggestion of
making amends in order to win back
the worlds respect. 1t certainly seems
that the terms imposed on Germany are
crushing enough to prevent any recur-
renee of fighting. but for four years she
kept doing the impossible and she may
attempt it again.
We may find that events will JUS
tify our gloomy prediction.