Evening star., 1920-11-25
RH|NELAND ARMY
AR0USES PROTEST
One Reichstad Member Says
Germany Will Become
Beggar Nation.

BERLIN, November "a (By the AS
sociated ess).-The reichstag today
entered upon consideration of aPpro-
priations to carry out the provisions oil
the treaty of Versailles with the recep-
ton of a report of the budget commit
tee. which had increased the original
estimates, especially for theA army OIL
occupation. by several million marks.
The committees report appealed 10
the German government to memorial.
ize the allies, asking them. in view OF
the indeterminate continuance OF eX.
penditures necessary on the part Oh
Germany, that the former enemy coun-
tries make known the number OF men
considered essential in the army OF oc-
cupation and what the probable cost
will be.
The report also asked the government
to request the allies to permit Ger
many to retain such war materlaiS re-
naming in her possession as are neeu-
ed to restore church bells. particularly
bronze.
The committee recommended an appro-
priation of 100000 marks. instead
of 10000. 900 for the Rhineland COM
mission and 611.000,O00 marks, instead
of 446, 900, 600, for the cost of housing
the army of occupation.
DR.. Schreiber's Attack.
DR.. George Schreiber. clercical, bit
terky attacking the reportt. said:
I'VE must say to the Americans that
humanity demands that they remove the
main body of their troops from the left
bank of tho Rhine We want the Ameri-
can people to know that all this char1-
table work. such as the Quakers and
other organizations are doing, is use
less so long as we are being bled to
death by the troops of occupation. We
i s,, nd nYf
militarism, against which the entente
oStensibly went to war"
Dr. Schreiber assailed the entente
for permitting negro troops in the
army of occupation. He was fire.
quently interrupted by cheering or
applause.
deepest of feeling. that it is fact
that $4,000 negro troops still are oc-
cupying the left bank of the Rhine"
DIR. Schneider continued. This con-
stituteS one-half of all the French
troops and a third of the whole army
of occupation. We do not deny the
right of these negroes to higher cul-
ture. but in this position and by un-
impulse they see in the
Germans white slaves, and this con-
stitutes not only danger to German
civilization. but to the interests of all
'"rhe white race will bitterly rue the
the day it sent black troops as the
of cultured people"
Germans in Foreign Legion.
DR.. Schreiber asserted that certain
Germans, through the use of motion
picture films, were making romance
and adventure out of the lives of
members of the French Foreign
Legion and were 'enticing young
Germans to enlist in that organiza-
ton" He declared that more than
3 900 Germans already were members
of it.
The speaker urged that there was
as much necessity to place copy of
the peace treaty in every school
child's hands as the state constitution,
in order that the shame of Yer
sailles' might be known.
"The budget for the execution of
this treaty is the dark finale of an
guish of the German people" said DIR.
Schreiber.
Herr Reichert. nationalist. said Ger
many had been transferred from
prosperous creditor into a hopeless
debtor nation which would soon be
converted into a beggar- nation unless
the treaty were revised.