The Archive · 1926

The Allied Military Control of Germany

Agreement. Reached: League of Nations to Take Control Next Year: German Disarming Not Complete: Logical Development from the Locarno Pact Geneva, Dec, 9. should be replaced by League super-

'The Council of the League of Nations has adopted the report submitted by Dr. Benes, the Rapporteur, dealing with arbitration, security and the reduction of armaments, and passed a resolution recommending member' States to conclude agreements tending to establish confidence and security whenever the circumstances are favourable.

The Council also requested the Preparatory [Committee to fix a date to draft the agenda of the Disarmament Conference.

The League Council has decided to invite the United States and Russia to send representatives. to the meeting at Geneva in the early, autumn of the special committee to @raft the convention on the supervision of private manufacture of vision, Reuter's correspondent Geneva now telegraphs that the final meet ing of Foreign Ministers represented at the present session of the Council of the League has reached an agreement on the following points:

The date, January 31 next, has n for cessation of the Military Commission, but in the interval the Commission will examine fresh proposals to be submitted by Germany for the purpose of satisfying the two Allied demands, Meanwhile the German Government has undertaken to suspend all military works on the Eastern frontier.

The two Allied demands relate to German fortifications on the Eastern frontier and the export of war material from Germany.—Reuter.

Berlin, Dec, 10.

Disarmament of fortresses East Germany and export of war material are the, outstanding points requiring adjustment by the Big Five in their discussions at Geneva.

The newspapers alleged that Britain demanded prohibition of export of x number of unfinished steel products on the ground that they could be used for military purposes, whereas the Germans contend 1 such prohibition would be a deathblow to many factories, and hint that commercial considerations are behind Britain's attitude-—Reuter.

Paris, Dec. 10.

The question of withdrawal of Allied military control from Germany has not advanced as a result of the Conference of Ambassadors meeting. It is learned that Allied military experts unanimously agreed that Germany's disarmament was in nowise complete, The Ambassadors decided to send a full report to the Foreign Ministers at Geneva.

The exports declared that the German General von Pawel's explanations regarding the cru points of eastern fortifications one traffic in war material had been unsatisfactory, The next move lies with the Foreign Ministers—Reuter.

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