| Show german ita rv supremacy V az ir or V pk aa 7 q 11 ar 4 P by WILLIAM C UTLEY F EW weeks ago mid tanu janu A AW ary to be exact all europe sat on a volcano oleado i awaiting the outcome of what was considered one of the worlds most important events since november 11 1019 it was the plebiscite the Is a volcano said students of international affairs war Is imminent almost no matter what the outcome another war Is unthinkable it will be the end of european civilization on jannary 13 the as expected voted to reunite re unite with germany the plebiscite was a peaceful orderly altair the volcano ironed a dud europe breathed easler easier and returned to its less spectacular war against the depression today only three months later europe sits on another volcano that makes the situation seem like a fourth of 0 july firecracker that has been left out in the rain and europe only sits and talks except germany germany Is too busy to talk too busy tearing up scraps of paper you remember what happened the last time germany tore up a scrap of paper that one was the belgian neutral lly ily treaty the present one 13 19 the armament section of the treaty of versailles germany has thrown her hat bat into the ring of struggle for military supremacy the hat Is a steel helmet like soldiers wear when they fire guns that kill people she Is con scribing an army variously estl es tl mated matea at to file facing tile the call to arms are men and boys you cant do that says great britain you cant do that says italy france russia poland rumania czechoslovakia like the man who screams you cant pu put t me in jail from behind the bars the turnkey says tell it to the judge germany says weve already done it germanys germanas Germ anys army was limited to men by the treaty signed at the conclusion of 0 the world war that Is about equal to the man power of the american army which will be increased by about one third under the new defense plans recently announced by our government hitler hurls thunderbolt on march 10 the reich spurred evidently by the final fitful bursting of fuehrer hillers Hit nit lers patience with the continued rearmament armament re of co signers to the versailles treaty which lias has been known to have been progress progressing Irig for years broke the reins hitler threw his thunderbolt into the sky over europe frankly defiantly the versailles treaty Is junked bunked the old time german system of universal military conscription Is the law of tie the I 1 in land n d the new new german army will rival in size and out outdo doin in training and equipment the army of the kaiser at the time when the late theodore roosevelt said with an army like this I 1 could lick the world I 1 the army with which the kaiser there will be 30 divisions in the nazi army each one will number at least men building of the army under the direction of gen hercer er von blomberg minister of defense Is to get under way at once As of old conscription will begin with young boys who will be prepared tor for military training by preliminary commitment to the nazi labor service how did the german people take the news cewa they cerii went wild with joy the shackles were thrown off it was the end of political p humiliation it was the return of the incomparable german pride correspondents spon dents called the delirium indescribable half a million germans lined the streets of berlin to cry nelll heill to their worshiped leader and to watch a military parade in honor of germanys germanas Germ anys war dead who won the war anyway germany lost it yet in point of numbers her new engines of war bow to none but those of france and russia and authentic sources have it that slie she will demand un an air force equal to that or of england or france with the common level to be d ty by that of russia the repa ria 4 0 3 L left defense minister von blomberg and chancellor adolph hitter hitler pictured as they reviewed troops right top general von blomberg who prepared the plans for german rearmament below type of youth from which germany will conscript its new army tion of oe residents of 0 czechoslovakia and cession of certain green territory a navy of 0 tons and economic union with austria the will start with an army of about to be increased to in ir a few months according to the plan announce dby gen von blomberg omberg EI it is thought though that the annual contingent will fal i somewhere between and giving germany a trained reserve of approximately in ten yearn years if special training periods are adopted for the next few months and this has been rumored and the state slate police which number and recruits from the storm troops and nazi labor camps are included the person personnel 11 el would reach by the en end of the present year eur fighting airplanes germany according to correspondents now possesses between COO and 1000 lighting fighting airplanes and Is equipped under stepped up schedules to produce new ones at the rate of a month at this rate it could approach the air strength of france or russia within a year france maintains a peace time army of men as compared with nith in 1914 1014 when it placed an army of in the field in a little more than two weeks in addition to the 30 peacetime peace time divisions there are 20 divisions of reserves there are more than alian 3 trained re rescues series available far tor fighting although the completion of underground g fortresses on the german and belgian borders would seem to make france safe from attack by land her army itself Is not as well mechanized as it might be forty per cent of the artillery is mechanized and one out of six els cavalry divisions Is motorized and mechanized completely there are 25 tank battalions ta lions some in the colonies france F rance has fighting planes since 1925 1025 soviet russia has expanded its army of men to the largest in the w world orl d its war strength could be increased to annually it passes into service recruits from row a contingent of mechanization lias has progressed to a high degree of late years although the soviet government has guarded it as a military secret in tw two years the air force Is said to 6 have increased per cent in four years the number of light tanks has increased per cent heavy artillery per cent and machine guns for infantry and cavalry per cent the italian peace time army has varied with the seasons in spring and summer and in fall and winter there are annually ly about called for service in addition to the regular army fascist militia and 0 others are organized on a military basis from those figures it follows that italy could put about men in the field of battle in case of war but reports have circulated that II 11 duce Is even now mustering muster an all army of during recent months the 1934 air strength of 0 planes has fins been augmented in europe great britain alone has a professional army not including clouding the troops lo in india it numbers l with additional and men available in case of war special elpe experts arts and technicians number another and there la is an independent territorial territorial militia of A few months ago ills Maje government announced a building program of planes to bring the total to 1320 in five years of the smaller nations on the continent the peace tir time ne army strength Is distria distributed buted as follows poland men chec czechoslovak kia hia yugoslavia rumania spain rind and belgium leads in industry germany is the leading industrial nation of europe she has great iron and steel industries her chemical and automotive plants added to the iron and steel make hers one of the great industrial systems of tile the world in addition she Is noted for her scientists and incentive minds these inventive minds are credited with having devised some of the most terrible engines of destruction dos truc tion ever conceived by the mind of man weapons which could wipe out the entire population of europe aud and even thre threaten aten other continents without ever leaving germany german most terrible of all is the reported stratosphere rocket this fired up into the thin air of the stratosphere Is guided by radio loaded with explosives or germs and paused caused to drop to earth with nith its load of death and disease there Is the Z ray so fantastic that it might have come from a modern dime novel the ray pulverizes all iron and steel in its path destroys bridges and the structural work of buildings melts guns temporarily paralyzes human beings it requires enormous electrical currents and special generating equipment for its supply Is said to be already completed along the rhine the tb e nalger ultra bullet invented by dr ilax gehrlich Is being turned out in german factories at the rate of a lay day it will pierce steel armor six inches thick said to be in production in the famed krupp plant are 2000 rota tiie the guns these guns huge cannons have five fire rotating barrels and fire giant shells a minute one of the most deadly of all infantry weapons Is the german stange machine gun weighing only IS 18 pounds it can be carried and handled by one man it fires GOO COO rounds a minute noble sacrifices all of this great military machine germany Is building under the guise of preserving the peace of europe and the world hitler felt that germany had made noble sacrifices sacrifice in carrying out the treaty of versailles meanwhile the diplomats of the other nations make hurried and frantic agreements and pacts in each others capitals send dignified if indignant notes to hitler bitler lie ile tosses them aside with the comment that they are not in accordance irrice with the facts sir john simon british foreign ml minister nister who seems to have taken it upon himself to plead the cause of the allies I 1 goes to berlin to talk with nit lilt ler and sits dumbly by while the fuehrer talks to him straight from the shoulder sir john accomplishes little more than nothing at all the united states in one breath ex presses herself as determined to ta stay out of european controversy in another she says slie she will insist on treaties being kept including germanys germanas Germ anys arms pact with us arance france in desperation appeals to the league of nations to do 10 some thing about it the longue ue as it 11 often has been of late as it was in deed created to be fanu itself agair on tile spot it has called ailed an air ex tra ordinary session of the cou council neil at geneva there will hardly he be s war as the outcome of that ij 11 takes a unanimous vote ote of tili th league council to declare war more than anything else th I 1 b mem member her nations would like to get gel germany back in the league of na eions arid and Gerra germany any will return says gays adolf hitler only it if she li 11 given back possessions taken frog her after the world war 0 western New vanloa A |
