Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-04-21 | Page 3 | Boche Army Refuses to Disband

H ARMY REFUSES T Tr TO TOki 1 r ki r UI BAND German Note Seeking Modification of Pact 1 Jo re Terms Copt Contains ins ins' Bo Bold d 5 Reference R to Troops FARIS EARIS N ARIS April Germany 21 21 Germany J h has bas s. s asked the i Conference enc at at San Remo to in- in Mcase from to n he standing army provided t 1 Z G Germany V by the terms of ot the 55 treaty reaty of Versailles j j the rhe rh r request quest was contained In a ri note te handed to the French foreign office last evening with the demand that t It be sent to the supreme council fit t at San Remo ARMY DEFIANT jS T The The- note set forth than an In In- In greased ased force was necessary for the maintenance of ot order in the Interior nd that furthermore the army would for Its dissolution f 1 o of accept an order tiThe The note further requests that Ger- Ger p aDY be allowed to retain the entire general Jeneral staff and cOr corps s of officers which means the entire framework of 1 l he e active army TWO ADDED NOTES r Two other German notes were vere veree handed to I th the e foreign office at atthe the thee the e same me time The first referred to the disbandment of ot the civic guards as demanded by the allies alUes Germany on April 19 presented this note announcing an announcing an announcing the decision to disband the guards to General head of ot the allied commission of ot control In Berlin And ind dad It ft- ft already has been made public The second note embodied requests that the force In tho the neutral neutral neutral neu neu- zone should be fixed according to the fhe number of men Instead of the number of ot units and that Germany be allowed to have eleven batteries of ot artillery Instead of two In the neutral zone