Evening star., 1932-11-14
REICH SEEsFRENCH
ARMED men READY
Cologne Paper Says Paris
Can Put 55 Divisions
in Field.
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recent years ,'have evinced a clearly
aggressive tendency.
s. That for more than a century
French policy has not swerved from the
goal of establishing military hegemony
over Europe, and that the French sys-
TEN OF alliances rests upon Europe like
q nightmare"
The French military system combines
professional troops enlisted for long
term service with a Short-term draft
army resting upon the universal obh-
cation of all males to serve, writes the
anonymous author of an article entitled
"Ready to March Within Six Days
without Mobilization" The last three
annual classes of reserves may be called
to the colors, this writer says, without
asking Parliament or declaring mobili-
cation. He describes the process thus:
Within q few hours eight highly
equipped divisions Of infantry, five Of
cavalry and four of the air force could
be ready for action. Within three or
four days 18 more infantry divisions
could enter the fray. Within six to
eight days 20 divisions Of infantry re-
serves could be ready, making total,
without parliamentary action, OF 46
AAAAoAAOAst - eNAA~ S@~
100000 Troops Ready.
Once general mobilization had been
ordered the writer continues, 80 to 40
mere infantry divisions would be avail
able. and one more cavalry division
making a total of 100000 white and
1000, 900 colored troops, all trained and
fully equipped with the following:
Twenty-Five thousand light machine
guns.
Eighteen thousand heavy machine
guns.
Two thousand two hundred large
cannon and howitzers.
-Four thousand tanks and other mo-
toriZed vehicles Of combat.
Five thousand military planes.
The writer asserts that France has
built many new railways and roads to
guarantee quick drawing up of her
forces, has equipped her army with
motorized weapons of attack and has
shown an aggressive tendency in recent
maneuverS.
"An this, together with the political
factor of the French policy of alliances,
and Frances concern for her vassals in
the East. proves" he concludes, that
the French intend to conduct new
war by the method of attack"
Charges Budget Is Hidden.
Walter Jost, a German economist,
who contends that the French military
budget does not show the actual outlay,
makes this statement:
Neither world public opinion nor the
French taxpayer like to see pacif1stic
France sacrifice more than one-third
of the nations entire income to the
god Mars, Nothing is easier, then, than
to hide the facts. A special credit of
5000, 100000 francs (about 5000, ,00O, ,000)
for the gigantic fortifications on the
eastern frontier need not appear as part
of the military budget"
Jost concludes that while France from
1913 to 1881 increased her military ex-
penditures about so per cent, Germany
reduced hers 30 per cent.
Rear Admiral Gadow, retired, who
makes the assertion that the French
neet has made tremendous progress
under long-term program never sane
TONED by the Chamber Of Deputies,
predicts that by 1912 the French will
have q fleet of large war vessels total
ing 723,000 tons, to which must be
added small vessels with tonnage of
100000.
French Air Fleet.
The admiral expresses apprehension
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an illustration accompanying his article
despicts plane described as the latest
French development for night bomo-
1ng-the S. A. B. 20 type-of which so
are said to have been ordered The
plane is equipped with nine machine
guns, has a radius of action of 625
miles, and can carry $500 pounds of
bombs. A graph sets forth that, flying
from Boulogne, it could drop its load
Count Max Won Montgelas, retired
German infantry general contributes g
review OF French military policy from
1913 to the present, in which he says
that everything has been made sub
servient to the establishment Of a mill
tary hegemony over Europe French
alliances are discussed by Karl L. Won
CertZen, retired German army colonel,
who asserts that France is the Spider
in a web enmeshing Belgium, Yugo-
slavia, CzechoslOvakia, Rumania and
Poland.
Common military action, under the
French alliance system, he declares, Is
possible as follows:
Against Germany by France, Bel
GUM, Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia
and Czechoslovakia.
Against Hungary by France, Ru-
mania, Yugoslavia and CZechoslovakia
against Italy by France and
Yugoslavia.
Against Soviet Russia by France,
Poland and Rumania.