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Show GERMANS ACCUSED I OF EVADING TREATY CVERSUPPLY OF ARTILLERY ISi FOUND IN THE VICINITY OF j BERLIN BY COMMISSION. I Discovery Causes Skepticism as to j I Re.ij:cn Civcn for Permission to Send Trcops Into Neutral and I Unoccup.ed Regions. J I I f'aris.- -Thr.-e lli.iii-Hlnl five hundred I thr.-.-ln.-h field kuii.s luive I :i found by tin; In r -1-i i II i -1 1 coicuiissioii in the j vicinity of ISerlin alone and a 1 1 o'et h.-r 1 U .' X hj of these f,'ims have thus far li.-eu discov.'ii-.l throughout fjermauy, as well u-i IViiJ") alrplane-i intact. According to the terms of the treaty of Versailles, the Ionium nrmy should now have only 201 three-Inch guns and no airplanes whatsoever. These discoveries and other information informa-tion have caused consideration skepticism skeptic-ism amoiij authorities here as lo the reason ylven for the request of the ISerlin ISer-lin government that it be permitted to Bend troops Into the neutral and occupied oc-cupied areas. The fact that the request came before be-fore the Hermans had executed any material clause of the treaty, although, the lime limit has expired on some three score of its provisions, is declared de-clared In French official circles as laying lay-ing the (iermans open to suspicion of attempting to avoid the Versailles treaty provisions. I'arliculur significance is attached by the French to the discovery of the guns, since the (lerinans, in a com- inimical ion lo the allied commission to which their excess of war material should have heen delivered by March 10, said it made no difference whether this material he delivered or destroyed, and thai they preferred to destroy it. Thus far, however, on March 27, no evidence had been obtained by the commission com-mission of any destruction of material by the Germans. Lists have been furnished, fur-nished, It was said, but it has been impossible im-possible to verify them tip to this time, premier Mlllerand declared Saturday In the chamber of deputies. Germany has doue little or nothing, tha French declare, toward execution of about thirty-six clauses of the treaty on whioli the limit has already expired. The only provision, so far as France Is conoJned, that has been duly executed exe-cuted lg that providing for the delivery deliv-ery of seeds for the spring planting In the devasted regions. It is admitted, however, that something has been done regarding some of the general provisions', provi-sions', such as reduction of the military ichools, |