New Britain herald., 1930-06-20
QUESTION GERMAN
 MILITARY BUDGET
Heavy Expenditures Rouse Sus. picion at Home and Abroad

London. June 2o-What are the bosses of the German army and navy up to-?
 Under cover of apparently ordi- nary estimates, are they providing the money for military surprises which may some daN rock Europe, even though the Treaty of Versailles sought to tie Germany hand and foot by limiting it's army and navy so it could never endaneer world peace again?
 These are some of the questions that are being asked today by Euro pean cabinets which are in rather anxious communication with their attaches in Berlin. For the army and navy budget estimates recently sub- mitted to the German Reichstag have achieved the remarkable effect of at the same time arousing the vi olent opposition of German republ- cans and the deep distrust of French rcactionaries. Which IS q record, especially after Germany has assumed all it's obligations under the Young plan for payment of war reparations and France, in turn, has set in motion machinery for the withdrawal of all her troops of oc- equation in the German Rhineland.
 Rising Cost of Navy
 The German opposition in the Feiohstag and in the republican newspapers is based mainly on the grounds of economy. Those who are analyzing the budget view with alarm a constantly rising sum spent on the army and navy. The French reactionarIes. who always have been opposed to Withdrawing their armiessfrom the Rhine, see some thing sinister ia the big amounts proposed 10 be spent, They are uor- ried by the fact that the budgets for these purposes have steadily risen ever since 1925. when the h. ter-Allled Commission of Control was disbanded. This commission had as one of its main jobs to see to it that Germany was disarmed within the meaning of the Treaty Of Versailles and 10 discover any hid den stores Of munitions. as well IS to see that plants for the manufac- ture of arms forbidden by the treaty were converted into peace time plants
 The French conclusion drawn from these eJer-mounting budgets is that Germany Is manufacturing and storing war material or is CO., vortly subsl6izing industries for the manufacture Of war material. II IS also suspected that by arrangement with Russia, plants are being in stalled there where munitions, poison gaoes. machine guns, artillery and aIrplanes can be manufactured. i
 Certainly there has been no dearth Of criticism nearer home, The greatest newspaper in Germany, the democratic BerIiner Tageblatt. has been devoting extensive articles to | dissection Of the budget The facts 1. pointed out are hard for the army and navy officers 10 explain. For 1. the current year the estimate for | army and navy combined was 768,- ! GOO 0h9 marks. and increase of 50,- ! 000, 900 over last year. This IS at a time when Germany needs all the . money she can get 10 meet her var | reparation obligations to conduct . the government at home and to low CT the heavy burden of taxes
 French Are Suspicious
 Germany's army i5 limited to q Reichsnehr of 100000 men who volunteer for service for q long term Of years. The estimated cost for this little army for the year 1890 is put down at 5l5.oho,ooo marks In 1913, when all Europe was nervous and heading for the World war. and when Germany had 500.000 men in the army, the cost vas only 75o.0oo,oo0 marks.
 It cost Germany G03.ooo ooo marks in 1918 to equip it's big var machine the mxhtiest in the world Today in time Of peace, it costs Germany tho huge sum of 25S,00o.- GOO marks 10 eqrip an army Of loo,- Goo. This figures out 1900 marks per man in 1918 and 256o per man in 1930. Even allowing for the in creased cost of things Germans ex- claim this IS q striking figure.
 In 1913, Germany spent 65.700,- 0o0 marks for arms and munitions. This year 1t is estimated they will cost 95.oo0.oNo. and last year the cost was nearly as great This is one Of inc items in the budget which makes the French onlookcrs think | there is something ftshy about 1t. A similar ca-e in point is the sum Of 21.30n000 marks estimated for the maintenance of weapons The much bigger army Of 1913, with its