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What Happened To China's German Advisers IsDeepest Secret of Secretive Nazi OfficialdomThe present flight of the former ’ fiorman military advisers to China, who were railed home by the German government as a gesture of friendship toward .lapan. is discussed • h^f bv a veteran American news-pa-llrc man and foreign correspondentThe writer is on a leisurely automobile tour of Kurope. enabling him to study the people and underlying social and political forces.By JUNIUS B. WOOD(Copyright, 1938(North American Newspaper Alliance)BERLIN, Sept. 10—Nothing in voluble Germany is a tighter secretthan the whereabouts of the German army officers who were advisers to China. Their names, army ratings and special details, aside from the chief of what often is incorrectly called a mission, have been more or less a mystery for ten years and still are, although they now are in civil life.Though a small item in the Third Reich’s far-flung world politics, they are a tender one and the official word seems to have gone out that the less said about them, the better. Newspapers print stories about Germany’s new hidden forts and tea tables flutter with revealing gossip over a high ranking minister's latest larivlove. hut the of-**Better say nothing than say something which might not be what the propaganda ministry would have prepared.'mat the German officers who were with the Chinese should whole-near ted ly back that country to win Is not surprising. Their thought and toil had a part in creating the Chinese military machine. It is surprising, however, that other German army officers with whom T have talked who have never been in the Orient, privately express the same hope that China will win. Aside from the ethics of abandoning a cause when it needs help the most, after accepting its bounty for ten years, the sentiment in German military circles seems to be that the prestige of German imperial nobilitv and his rank as military methods—science, charac-ter-building, training -which China has been following for that, many years, is involved in the outcome of this war.Another surprise is that since the German officers were recalled and Germany no longer has even I that influence to put it on China’s side of the ring, German newspa-Russia. Caucasus and Palestine and later chief of staff for the 7th Turkish army. After the armistice, he was military attache to Turkey and from 1927, until his retirement from active service in 1930, commander of the Reichwehr s infantry school.Imposing ListIn addition to this imposing list of the chiefs of the German advisers. General Chiang Kai-Shek induced General Walter von Reich-enau to take several months leave of absence from the Third Reich’s active service and come to China for an inspection of the Chinese military organization and the work of the other German military advisers. Reichenau is accepted as one of the ablest officers of the German Reichswchn. Now in command of the 8th Army Corps and area in Breslau, he is a' hearty man of 54 who is out every morning inrunning shorts, wunter or summer,to do a couple of kilometers on the barrack's streets.Among the staff who left with General von Falkerhausen were Lt. Gen. Kurt Spemann who. during the war, divided his time betweentifo** rv* i r» i c t rv anH thp frnnf. and
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