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Show GERMANY ASKS " FOR BIG ARMY Seeks Treaty Modification So She May Retain General Staff and Officers PARIS, April 21 Germany has .islced for a modification of the mlli-' tary clauses of the peace treaty so as lo enable her to maintain larg'Mi armed forces than permitted by that) pact. , The request was contulnod in a note) handed to the1 French foreign office! last evening, with the demand that it be sent to the supreme council ;it San , liemo. The note set forth that an Increased force was necessary for the maintenance mainten-ance of order in the interior, and that, furthermore, tho army would not accept ac-cept an order for Its dissolution. The note further requests that Germany Ger-many be allowed to retain the entire, general stuff and corps of officers,! which means the entire framework oft the active army. : Propose Withdrawal. Withdrawal of allied troops fromj part of the Rhlneland in consideration! of immediate execution by Germany j of certain financial obligations of the; treaty of Versailles is proposed uyi Italy and Great Britain at the San Kemo conference of the supremo a'.-; lied council, says a dispatch to the Petit Parislen. Premier Millerand has refused to agree to this plan, it is said. 1 The Anglo-Italian program would j Include disarmament of Germuny un-j der threat of blockade, and the simu'-i taneoii3 inauguration of a policy f; reconciliation, says the M.atln, which adds that, in view of -M. Millerand's; refusal to Join them, Premiers Nltli' and Lloyd George are not likely roj persist in carrying out their proposah;. Work on Turkish Treaty. j "SAN REMXJ, AT'ril 20. British,! Italian, French, Japanese and Greek I military and naval experts have :-.r-j rived hero to take part in the fram-j ing of the military clauses of thej Turkish treaty, it was officially an-i nounced here tonight. Can't Tolerate Kevolts. j ' BERLIN. April 20. The Belgian, I French, British and Italian govern-! monts, through their charges d'aT-j faires, have notified the German government gov-ernment that they cannot tolorate a government which Is not Inclined loy-i ally to execute tho peace treaty, undj that all revolutionary movements or a.; recrudescence of the late uprisings will only delay the economic re-es-J tabllshment and revictualling of Germany. Ger-many. oo |