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'is considered 'the situation in
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German Re-Arming Of
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Changes are still being made, and it is not yet known whether the towns I have mentioned will be used as, permanent stations. Mannheim, which is to be the now, and we are strong. If Mr. army headquarters for the Eden tries to tell us what to do Southern Rhine region, now he will get his nose pulled.” has three battalions, but they The French." another shout-lare not up to full strength. fed, "want us to be unarmed. We when the new barracks are are under their guns, but they completed, which will not be do not want us to have any. We before the end of April, Mann- don't want war, but if Mr. Eden heim expects to receive a whole and M. Flandin try to interfere division. in our affairs. we will show them
Hitler now."
Mainz has three battalions We have an Adolf and Frankfurt also three, in-
"Now She Is Strong”
cluding a battalion of flying corps. These will be increased
Aviation Centre
I mentioned something about later. the sanctity of treaties, but this brought forth a loud out- Frankfurt, according to in-|| burst of laughter. "When Ger-formation I received, will be the many was weak," the Nazi com-chief military aviation centre mander explained, "she had to for the Rhineland. Saarbruec- accept the dictates of other naken has only one battalion now. tions. Now she is strong and but will receive a whole division other nations will obey our when the new barracks are com dictates." This concluded thepleted in April. discussion on treaties.
Two hundred troops are now Throughout my trip in the stationed in Heidelberg, and Rhineland and Saar I encoun-Darmstadt has two battalions. tered this same attitude. Any which are not yet up to full reference to the Treaty of Ver-!, strength.
but
sailles or the Locarno Pact In the Northern Rhine re- brought forth jeers or laughter.gion, from Mainz to Essen, there In the eyes of the Nazis the are.20 to 22. battalions, Locarno was in the same cate-most of them are weak. gory with the Treaty of Ver- There was considerable i sailles both. they insisted. had annoyance in Reichswehr circles been inflicted on a weak
at the fact that the Nazi party powerless Germany, and repu-had received information of diation was just and noble. Herr Hitler's intention long The only criticism I heard of before the German Army had Herr Hitler's unilateral action been told came from Reichswehr circles.
In the Rhineland. Saar and
and
The death of the King of Egypt In Karisruhe, an army officer of Palatinate storm troopers and
guards here to aggravate the old school told me that in ss.
had received the Mediter- his opinion the business had stand to orders on March 1.
England: ranean. since in the opinion of been mismanaged.
In Saarbruecker, I was told Italian political circies it affords he said, should have been con- on good authority, the storm *Eritain an increased possibility sulted first, and then everything trompers had been given riles
could have beerr arranged and the S.S. of bringing pressure to bear on
guards hand the Egyptian Government and through negotiations.
grenades. The first thing the A commander of one of the Reichswehr did on entering the consequently on Italy.
battalions in the Rhineland held Saar, my informant added, was Hence the Roman press regards
the same views.
to confiscate these weapons. the future developments with un- "Herr Hitler," he said, :controlled misgiving, the Mes-always acts first and thinks
"Alarm Order" expressing the opinion
afterwards. He announced to that in view of the hostile attitude the world that the German general alarm” order, which is the intended to summon its mem- the bers for emergency duty, gave rise, so I gather, to consider- able misunderstanding
sagero
army
had
¦of the Nationalist Wald Party to-
re-occupied wards the proposed treaty of Rhineland when most of friendship between British and troops were still half-way to
to the Egypt, the newly-appointed ESP the Rhine."
In Bavaria the Nazi party's
tain Council of Regency will bej He admitted that the whole some amusing incidents. unable to resume the interrupted plan could have been scotched SAILINGS negotiations on the subject with if France had acted at once.
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cal circles here believe that the From personal investigations general alarm on March 6 this British
not which I have just concluded in year was another "Rochm re- Government will hesitate to annex
Egypt. The the Saar and southern regions volt," and considered it safer to
state remain indoors at home. measure, it is stressed, would be of the Rhineland, I can
Herr Hitler's decision to takej calculated to intensify the already that there are not more than jexisting Anglo-Italian tension on
20,000 to 22,000 troops in the the vote of the German nation Now is the time to
the Egyptian-Libyan border, since does not include the former policy of the past three years: demilitarised regions. This on his foreign and domestic Australia & New Zealand it would enable Britain to streng-green police
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talion (infan-year-
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Berlin, To-day. tion of remilitarising the Rhine- sump obliged him to come down at, The Press Chief of the National land-the election is really a) the Italian military aerodrome of Government of China, His Excel-national referendum, as there Montecelio, where the suspicions lency Mr. Tang Leang-li, visited are no opposition candidates on of the authorities were immediate Hamburg on Monday and Tuesday the ballot was thus in accor- ordance with Nazi tradition and ly aroused by the fact that Drouil and was the guest of honour lat had no documents to identify the East Asiatic Association, expectation.
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Berlin, To-day. The Russian Orthodox Diocese
A proft for the year of $92.47 was shown by the accounts of the of the Orthodox Bishop of Berlin Diocesan Old Girls' Association, and Germany undergoes a change presented at the annual meeting of status, since by decrae of the which was held yesterday at the Prussian State Ministry this body offices of Messrs. Lo and Lo, received the status of a body pa- Alexandra Building, an *blicly constituted by law.
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State thus enabling the adherents After tea had been served to of this faith to live in closer unity the members, Miss M. C. Churn with other members of the {read the minutes of the last meet-faith in Germany. The Reich and
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Election of Officers
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