Evening star., 1935-03-17
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March l6-The text of
Reichsfuehrer Hitlers appeal to the
German people today follows:
To the German people:
When in November. 1918, the Ger
man people, trusting in the promises
given in President Wilson's IA points.
grounded arms after four and half
years honorable resistance in a war
whose outbreak they had never de-
sired, they believed they had rendered
service not only to tormented hu-
manity but also to great idea per Sc.
Themselves the most serious suf-
fererS from the result of this insane
struggle, the millions composing our
people trustingly seized upon the idea
of a new order in the relations be-
tween people, an order which was to
be ennobled on one hand by doing
away with the secrecy of diplomatic
cabinet policies and on the other hand
by abandoning the terrible methods
of war. The historically severest re-
suit of the defeat seemed to many
Germans to be the only sacrifice
necessary in order once and for all to
save the world from similar terrors.
League of Nations Hailed.
The idea of the League of Nations
has perhaps in no nation awakened
more fervent acclaim than in Ger
many, stripped as she was of all
earthly happiness. Only thus was it
conceivable that the German people
not only accepted but also fulfilled
the conditions, verify senSeleSs in
many respects. for the destruction of
every condition and possibility of de-
fenSe.
The German people and especially
their governments of that time were
convinced that by fulflllment of the
conditions of disarmament laid down
in the Versailles treaty and in ac-
cordance with the promises of that
treaty, the beginning of international
general disarmament would be marked
and guaranteed.
For, only in two-sided fulfillment
of the task set by the treaty could
there lie moral and sensible justi-
fication for a demand which, one
sidedly imposed and executed, mad
necessarily to lead to an eternal dis
elimination and thereby to a declara-
tion of inferiority of great nation.
Would Only Create Hatred.
Under such conditions, however, a
peace treaty of this sort could never
create the conditions for true inward
reconciliation of peoples, nor for the
pacification of the world achieved in
this manner, but could only set up
a hatred that would gnaw eternally.
Germany has, according to the in
veStigation of the Interallied Control
Commission, fulfilled the disarmament
conditions imposed upon her. Follow
ing the work of destruction of the
German power of resistance and the
means necessary therefor, there was
certified by this commission:
Army-59,897 cannon and heavy
gun barrels, 130,558 machine guns,
31,470 mine throwers and barrels. 6,
007 1000 guns and carbines, 243,937
machine gun bores, 28001 cannon car
riages, 4.39O machine-gun carriages,
38, $50 900 bullets, 16,550,0 hand and
gun grenades, 60,400,000 fuses, 49l,-
100000 rounds of ammunition for
hand weapons, 335,000 tons of shell
cases. 23,515 tons of cartridge cases,
$1,000 tons of powder, 79,500 ammuni-
ton emptieS, 212,000 telephones, 1,072
fame throwers, 81 armored cars, SO
tanks. 1852 observation cars, 1882
wireless stations, 1,240 field bakeries,
2,199 pontoons, 981.7 tons of equip
ment for soldiers, 8,230,350 sacks of
equipment for soldiers, 1900 pistols
and revolvers, 180 machine-gun sleds,
81 transpoFtable workshops. IL anti
aircraft gun carriages, II nmbers, 64,-
900 steel helmets, 174,000 gas masks,
$500 machines of the former war in
dustry and 5000 gun barrels.
1914 Military Planes.
Air forces-15,714 chasing and
bombing planes, 2,757 airplane motors.
Navy-Material that was neither
destroyed, scrapped, sunk nor handed
over: Twenty-siX first-claSs battle
ships. four coastal cruisers, four ar
mored cruisers, Is small cruisers, 81
schooling and other ships, SO torpedo
boats and 315 submarines.
In addition, there had to be de-
stroyed vehicles of all sorts, utensils
for gas attacks and partly for gas pro-
lection, fuel of various kinds and ex-
plosives. searchlights. gun sighting
appliances, instruments for measuring