The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-23
GERMANY DISPUTES
 BRANDS ADDRESS
Declares His Statements Will Be Believed Only in
 America
By Associated Press

Ky Associated Press
 Berlin, November 22.-In a state ment to the Associated Press today the German government officially takes issue with the charges of Pre- mier Briand of France in his address before the Washington conference that the German police forces con- stituted nuclues for future Ger man army.
 It declares NJ. Briands assertion that the reichswehr is composed ex- clusively of officers and -commis- stoned officers>of the old army is in correct, and, that on the contrary, the bulk of the reichswehr is made up of youths between the ages of 19 and q, recruited since the war.
 The statement says that the pro lection policy was created at the bidding of the entente, and adds The reischwehl were wholly un- affiliated with the schut7polizei which took the place of the security police when the entente ordered the latter's dissolution.
 Maintain Law
 "The schutzpoiizei is primarily an agency to maintain law and order, and is not subject to the authority of the ministry of defense. It takes or ders solely from the civilian minis tries or the federated states. US numerical strength and it's compost , tion with reference to the ratio of officers and men are desig mated and supervised by the entente control commission.
 "The number of rifles and small arms it is permitted to have is care fully specified 1t does not possess heavy -calibered arms suitable to con- vert into d unit of fighting troops. The einwohnerwehr, or civilian guards, referred to by NJ. Briand, have been dissolved and their arm have been surrendered and destroyed" The statement disputes NJ. Briand' $ assertion that Germany still pos sessed numerous arsenals equipped to turn out war material, and asserts that these plants now are limited to two or three required to keep the German army supplied and that their output is carefully supervised by the entente control commission. Throne Address The governments statement refers the French premier % the recent ad Ydress from the throne, in which King George of England declared that sat | isfactory progress had been made by Germany in the execution of her l financial and disarmament obllga- tions.
 l The newspaper comment generally characterized M Briand's speech as flat falsehood," but most of the | <. \ ar@ifa ! which is not so well informed on the European situation, may believe what he had to say. The opinion general ! ly expressed was that the French premier's attitude was likely to un- dermine and nullify the whole effort toward disarmament.
 The following excerpts from Berlin newspapers are generally character istic of the comment.
 Tagliche Rundschau; "YesterdaS !, the whole disarmament question was 1 consecrated. Militarism is dead; long live militarism."
 Land Disarmament l Kruez Zeitung: The principa thing is that France does not con slider disarmament. and so disarma' ment by land is settled so far as the i Washington conference is concerned' A1lgeme1ne LeltunS' AHiei iSeii' will not see through the politics o' France. Under the cloak of keeping fpeace on the continent, she seeks mil itary, political and economical con trol. which she hopes to~extend ever over Russia
 LokaI Anzeiger: M. Briand's argu- ments were new and striking-tt -tt American ears.
 Tages Zeitung: M. Sriand reckons on the almost unbelievable credui lity of Americans. That the English l Japanese and Italian delegates be \ iieved him, he himself would scarce dare to presume.
 The newspapers say that wnii' talking disarmament France IS reahN strengthening her army, addins new
 formations of tanks and airpiane and reinforcing her troops or occupa ta.