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Show GH HIS IFillEIL Despite Versailles Treaty Huns Said to Have Renty of Equipment for War Bj Milieu RA Special orresi omit Dt of the P tJl Juurna and t!ic lutornatloiukl New Sesi Ice. BBRUN, July Z. Scarcely one-fifth one-fifth of tli: War material In the bunds ol the Germans when Iho armistice was signed has been destroyed, although al-though the treut oi Versailles pre-Bt pre-Bt i n.es us Immediate destruction Central Nollet, Dead of the interallied inter-allied commission of control which has ehtlre charge of the task of supervision sup-ervision of the ncsu-uctlon of the German Ger-man Ui-.r machine explained to me the difficulties surrounding the work ot the commission. "Germany,'' suld the general, "still possesses enormous quantities of war material. Wo have taken over thousands thou-sands ot guns of hcav calibre, but there remain at least iie times us many whit Ii we know about, besides the hidden stoics wc arc dlseoveiing every day. We have constructed more than hundred centers of destruction destruc-tion whuli are working i oiiBtantly As a mailer of fact, we do not actually actual-ly 'destroy1 the guns. We merely render ren-der th.em Incapable of military use. Tho guns are cut into pieces and the metal Is turned over to ihe reparations repara-tions commission to be placed to Gorilla Gor-illa ny's credit, or It Is sold to Gcruiau factories us ihw material. iiesides exercising vigilance over the destruction of German armament, the commissioner has another and much more Important task to per-1 fori,. This is the lonuol of the ef-f. ef-f. ctlves of Ihe existing German ariuy 1 his Is something which concerns us, not only todu, hut also is a great problem for the future. ll Is the1 most difficult part of our task be c-ausb It. is constantly complicated b questions of a political order "Tho treaty of Versailles gives thc German! tho right to organize police, corps without war weapons Thu I troops of the Kin wohnerwebr were or-; ganized for war purposes and were! aimed precisely like those of the, Relchswehr. if wc ,int injt the (rt-j vvhor come under the same heading we will take Immediate action and I force the German government to dls- j solve this corps also." Genera J Nollei explained the meth-j Ods by which he is currying out the surveillance of Germany's military ac-; livlties "The mechanism of our organlza-tlon," organlza-tlon," he said, "Is very simple It consists con-sists of three Bub-comuilasions One has rhaigo of Gorman fortlflcAtlons, another of armament and the third of the effectives. Each of these. Is In charge of s general To carry out the work of these commissions Germany Ger-many has been divided Into a small i number of districts. In each of these I districts there Is a colonel with his staff and secretaries, usuallv from 20 to 80 persons In all They work In I conjunction with a similar German I staff. If any question comes up' which i annot be settled on the spot by theso men It is referred to the. council of the commission which, reaches a decision and transmits It to (he German government for execution. execu-tion. "The powers of the commission which it holds from the cuprcnie council coun-cil and Marshal Koch will continue un- til the day when every one of the military clauses of the treaty of Ycr-sgilles Ycr-sgilles has been executed. In full agreement with my colleagues of all the allied armies: I Intend to carry OUt the provisions of the treaty with -i out brutality without useless rigor, but also without weakness." j |