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Show Prussia in the v;r:il-!-; nuwn l)''-ueh!and timber lilt's, tiioul'l not escape attention. atten-tion. Tim n.ivinjj joint is that the allied powers cannot be unmindful of the implied im-plied r.'n.nae. Germany is on h'r tfood behavior. The program of repentance to which Ebert and his aisociaU-, pb.-uge. the German people does not fit :n Willi an augmented army es'abli.-.h-ment. Obviously the allies have something some-thing to attend to beside arranging for a v.'ider exereiso of Teuton notions of Germany's place in a reconstructed world. GERMANY'S ARMYi Under the pc:ice tonus sigm-tl nt Versailles the German nation ms permitted per-mitted a military tsiablishment of 200,-000 200,-000 men. This contemplates the entire en-tire armed forces of the Teutou people, peo-ple, since the navy allowed them was ncjjliriblo and air forces were denied altogether. In view of the treaty stipulations stip-ulations it is interest ing, if not somewhat some-what disquieting, to read that Germany's Ger-many's military establishment is to embrace a ''home iiuard"' svstem of more than 300,'VO men. This estimate of the strength of tho organization has been made by American army officers and may be assumed to be reasonably nccurate. These home guard units are composed of trained soldiers, who. nevertheless, have pledged themselves to a continued course of military training considerably consider-ably more active than that of the national na-tional guard with which we in the United States are familiar. Just what authorization Germany has for this supplementary military force is not clear. The potency for future mischief in an establishment of half a million men, trained in tho German school of army science and impregnated with the customary notiuns of German destiny expressed before the collapse of j |