3 JULY 1920, Page 9

Herr Fehrenbach, the new German Chancellor, succeeded in forming a

Coalition Ministry last Friday week, despite the uncertain attitude of the Majority Socialists. He lost his Defence Minister, Herr Gessler, the same day, for Herr Gessler resigned on discovering that the Allies would insist on the reduction of the German Army to 100,000 men, in accordance with the Peace Treaty. But we do not doubt that the Defence Ministry will be filled. The German militarists should know by this time that their pretended fear of Bolshevism in Germany no longer alarms any serious person in fhe Allied countries. The Allks in their own interests cannot afford to let Germany flout the military clauses of the Treaty, on any pretext