Evening star., 1922-06-18
International Military Control.

BERLIN.-Erich Dombrowski, asso-
ciate editor of the Berlin Pageblatt.
declares that the Anspach affair
eclipses anything of it's kind in his
tory. He says:
The story of Capt. Won Koepenick,
which amused the world for day. Is
nothing beside the Anspach affair. In
the first case that was nothing but a
Joke. A number of officials were
taken in by a Prussian officers uni
form. But this time the same uni
form has played a much more serious
part. A political prisoner has been
trying to excite once more the en-
tente, and particularly France against
Germany by inventing a story of mill
tary preparatives, Of transport of arms,
of secret police measures. etc.
"A young man. Erich Anspach, has
been providing the allied commits
sions continually with false docu-
ments on all sorts OF questions. IT IS
heads of all the ministers. and used
false seals; yet the abundance of
facts in all domains ought to have
reused the suspicious of the for
eien commissions. The credulity Of
M. Mollet and those about him, is
extraordinary.
ut was on these documents that
M. BRAND. at the Washington con-
ference; Lefevre, Maginot. Poincare
have based their incendiary speeches
against the German peril, against
military Vaccinations and goodness
have been largely the cause of the
sharp notes from the allies on the
subject of disarmament where the
attitude of obstruction before the
military commission was denounced
It is on these documents that France
bases her claim to maintain continual
military control.
These gentlemen of the interallied
commission, who have believed
everything as gospel with extraor-
binary credulity and have transmit
ted 1t to Paris and elsewhere, nave
not compromised themselves alone,
but their governments as well. me
whole of humanity ought to burst
with laughter on hearing Of this
farce played on the petty distrust
Of the organs of foreign controi IN
Germany. Moliere would have found
in it a subject for q new comedy,
Gogal might have added a satire to
his .reyisor' But both of these are
dead, and the French. In their hys-
terical fear of German revenge, have
lost their humor and all sense OF the
comical in this situation, where a
foreer is making game of their ofn-
ciai CONSERVATIVES in Germany, as
we'll as Of their high functionaries in
paris. II the ridiculous kills, as the
nroyerb SAYS, there ought not still TO
he an allied commission in Germany.
Lightning Struck by an Airplane.
LoNDoN.-Capt. E. D. c. Herne,
cross-Channel air pilot, has had the
extraordinary experience of striking
the path of flash OF lighting while
in flight at q speed of 100 miles an
hour. according to the Daily Express
Can't. Herne recently made record
double trip between London and Paris
in a single flying day.
While passing along the airway 10
Paris he observed heavy thunder
clouds above the Channel. He was
skirtine these when he suddenly saw
two of these vivid flashes of light
ming near his machine. The aeroplane
seemed to shudder and hesitate, then,
recovering itself rapidly. continued
smoothly in flight.
Capt Hearne called up the nearest
land station by wireless telephone
and asked whether they thought the
trailing wire Of his apparatus might
be connected in any, way with this
phenomenon. They advised him to
wind It in temporarily. which he
It has often been matter Of