The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-31
ALLIED CONTROL
 WILL CONTINUE,
 BERLIN IS TOLD
Treaty Disarmament De- Inands Must Be Exc
 cuted, Note Declares

LONDON, May 3O.-(By Associated Press. )-The allies intend to keep firm hand on military control on Ger many by maintaining the commission of control in full operation until the dis armament demands made in the treaty of Versailles are fully executed, ac- cording to a long notea from the council of ambassadors, sent to Berlin from Paris today.
 The ambassadors communication was in reply to the German note of March 31, in which the Berlin govern nsent maintained that it was time for the League of Nations to take over the supervision. The ambassadors note re- affirms the contention that 1t is the legal right of the allies to decide for !. themselves when the time has arrived for transferring the duty of controlling German armaments to the league after the time limit clauses have been ex- ecuted.
 'It would be hardly possible to con- tend that this condition is fulfilled to- day. the note adds.
 Acceptance Is Urged
 The allies propose to end the mili- tary control as soon as possible, says the note, which urges acceptance of the general inspection contemplated by the allied note of March 5, which would consist of series of visits. This in spection, in the view of the allied gov ernments, could be completed within three or four months if it met with no Instructions and if no grave infraction of the treaty's clauses were discovered.
 Replying to the German claim that the allies themselves had recognized that apart from five specified categories Germany has fulfilled her disarmament obligations, the ambassadors note says the allied governments never expressed such an opinion. It points out that in the British House of Commons the gov ernment made certain declarations rel ative to German disarmament, but that these declarations were not intended to imply that Germany had fulfilled her obligations; they merely indicated that certain clauses at one time appeared to them to have been effectively carried out.
 If after more than six years after the enforcement treaty, Germany is still obliged to undergo investigations by an interallied commission responsibility for the situation rests only on herself" says the note. If there had not been systematic obstruction, of which the allies many times had complained, the operations of disarmament would have been completed a long time ago."
 The ambassadors say they feel called upon to define for the last time the conditions of the problem which allows only one of two solutions:
 First, either the German government will accept the general inspection de- sired by the allies and at the end of this inspection and if the results are satisfactory the military control will be limited to five points; or, second, Ger many will persist in refusing the allied offer, upon which the allies will de- mand strict application of the treaty.
 The ambassadors conclude their note courteously, saying that from every point of view the present situation, which is source of constant difficulty, cannot be further prolonged, and the allies hope the German government un- derstands that it is in the general in- terest to arrive at a difinite solution without delay. Therefore, the note adds, a favorable answer, saying that Germany accepts the proposals of the present note as regards a general in- spection and the consequent limitation of control is expected before June 30.