Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1919 — HUN ARMY ONLY A POLICE FORCE [ARTICLE]

HUN ARMY ONLY A POLICE FORCE

Strict Safeguards for the Disarmament of. Germany Are Announced. 100,000 MEN IS MAXIMUM Fortifications Within Fifty Milos of ths Rhino to Be Destroyed and Construction of New Ones of Any* Kind Forbidden. London, March 21.—Strict safeguards for the disarmament of Germany are announced by Paris correspondents of the Times and Dally Mall. They state that discussion of this question Is practically ended (with the exception of some points which do not affect the pillltnry or naval strength. The purpose of the terms Is to reduce the German army to the limits required for the preservation of internal order and the maintenance of frontier guards. A long-service German army of 100,000 men is the maximum. The great general staff disappears altogether with other bodies of the same kind. The military schools are cut down, and the number receiving training must be in proportion to the vacancies in the army. There must be no seheine of mobilization.

To Raze Rhine Forts. The clauses regarding fortifications provide for the destruction of all fortified works, fortresses and field fortifications within 50 miles of the Rhine, and lhe construction of any new fortifications of any kind is forbidden. In this area. On the southern and eastern frontiers Germany will tee allowed to maintain her fortifications in the existing condition. The terms fix very definitely the number of rifles and guns and the manufacture of ammirtiition for them. The manufacture of munitions or war material muy be carried on only In Such works of which the allies have been fully Informed and the number of which the allies reserve the right to limit. All other establishments In nny way connected with the war shall be shut up and the workmen dismissed. All arms nnd war materials, including anti-aircraft guns, above the requirements as fixed In the treaty, are te> be surrendered to the allies and the associated governments, which* will render them useless or* destroy them. And such plant for the manufacture of war material, except that required for the production of quantities laid down, will meet with the same fate. Can’t Import War Material. Germany will be forbidden to import war material of aifir kind or to manufacture for export any war material. This covers asphyxiating gases and other devices such as armored cars and tanks. In the naval terms all the clauses relating to the fate of the German warships to be surrendered by Germany are still subject to reservation. The allies have not yet come to an agreement whether or not the ships should Be destroyed or broken up or used to make good allied losses during the wat. fThe object of the_naval clauses is the same as the military—the reduction of the German naval strength to the equivalents of police and frontier control.