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Show GERMANS DESIRE 10 INCREASE ARMY WOULD DOUBLE THE PRESENT ENROLLMENT WITH APPROVAL OF THE ALLIES. San Remo Council is Informed That an Increased Force is Necessary for the Maintenance of Order in the Interior. Paris. Germany has asked the interallied in-terallied conference at San Remo to increase from 100,000 to 200,000 men the standing army provided for Germany Ger-many by the terms of the treaty of Versailles. The request was contained in a note handed to the French foreign office on April 21 with the demand that it be sent to the supreme council at San Reno. The note set forth that an increased force was necessary for the maintenance mainte-nance of order in the interior and that, furthermore, the army would not accept an order for its dissolution. The note further requests that Germany Ger-many be allowed to retain the entire general staff and corps of officers, which means the entire framework of flif. netivp fii'inv Two other German notes were handed hand-ed to the foreign ofiice at the same time. The first referred to the dis-bandment dis-bandment of the civic guards, as demanded de-manded by the allies. Germany on April 19 presented this note, announcing announc-ing the decision to disband Hie guards, to General Nollet, head of the allied commission of control in Berlin, and it already has been made public. The second note embodies requests that the reichswehr force in the neutral neu-tral zone should be fixed according to the number of men, instead of the number of units, and that Germany be allowed to have eleven batteries of artillery instead of two in the neutral zone. In French official circles the German Ger-man requests are considered as merely one more move in the systematic defense de-fense -against the treaty of Versailles. Versail-les. It was pointed out that if Ger many's requests were granted the German Ger-man army would differ from (lie army of 191-1 is nothing but facility with which the rank and file could be mobilized. |