Evening star., 1938-09-11

Hldny years Is involved In the outcome of
this war
Another surprise is that since the Ger
man officers were recalled and Germany
no longer has even that influence to put
1t on China's side of the ring German
newspapers have become more friendly to
China. Their readers now learn that China
has Won battle or that Japan has been
halted where, before, Japan was always
winning. As they had printed the same
one-sided news" for more than a year
without asking why an army which won
every battle could not win the war, the
obvious inference is that orders to pive
China an even break in the news came from
higher up. With the Japanese Army
mired down and two months campaign"
dragging into that many years, it may be
that Germany will return to a policy of
neutrality between Japan and China.
China's Four Grievances.
Many in Germany consider the Oriental
end of the three-cornered axis more of a
burden than a help. For a time, diplo-
matte relations between China and Ger.
many were strained almost to the breaking
point, all due to the demands Of the Berlin
Rome Toxic axis. China has four eriev.
ances against Germany:
/. The Berlin-Tokio treaty, under the
guse of an Communist pact which
Nanking interpreted as aligning Germany
with Japan against China as we'll as against
the Soviet Union.
2. Germanys recognition Of Manchukuo
to please Japan in February
3. Germany's refusal to sell more NUM-
tions Of war supplies to China through con.
tinuing to supply Japan.
4. The withdrawal of German military
advisers from the Chinese army China
has had among the best of Germany's
army as advisers. Continuous through 10
years. the different chiefs have been:
1e2S-Col. Max Bauer, who had been
Ludendorf1's right-hand man in moulding
German strategy during the Great War.
He died in China the following year.
1s29-Lt. Col. Hermann Kriebel, then 50
years old, who had served through the War
and later marched with Hitler in the
Munich ''putsch' on November 8, 1923.
The late President Won Hndenburg ap-
pointed him German consul general in
Shanghai.
193l-General Of infantry Georg Wetzell,
who had arrived during Kriebels term He
Is now editor Of the Militaer wochenblatt
in Berlin, one of the oldest of military
weeklies, established for 1913 years.
One Time Chief Of Army Staff.
1934-Gen. Hans Won Seeckt, who had
been chief of the Turkish army general
staff in the War and chief Of the German
army staff from 1920 to 1926 He could
not stand the climate and returned to Ger
many where he died shortly afterward.
1s35-Lt. Gen. Count Alexander Ernst
Alfred Hermann Won Falkenhausen, born
in Niesse, Saxony. October 20. 1878 He
had been Won Seeckt's chief of staff. In
10000, he was an officer with the German
forces in the Boxer campaign in China;
l904-07, detailed to the German War
Academy; l90S-10, member Of the army
higher general staff; 1904 military at
tache to Japan; 19l4-19, active service in
Belgium, France, Russia, Caucasus and
Palestine and later chief Of staff for the
7th Turkish Army.
In addition to this imposing list of the
chiefs Of the German advisers, Gen. Chang
Kai-shek induced Gen. Walter Won Reich
enau to take several months leave of alb
sence 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 Reichswehr. Now
in command Of the 9th Army Corps and
area in Breslau, he is a hearty man OF 81,
who is out every morning in running shorts,
winter or summer, to do a couple Of xii.
ometers on the barracks streets.
Baron Won Stein Remains.
Capt. Baron Won Stein, from an old
Aryan family, who has been an adviser in
China since 1890, is one who remained in
that country.
The most picturesque Of those who still
are there is the dauntless, swashbuckling
Capt Walter Shines In 1914 though only
II years old, he got into the German Army
as a messenger and. through daring and
determination and no military training,
came out Of the war a captain. In the
chaos which followed in Germany, he was
one Of the young vigilantes who were a
law unto themselves, ruthlessly suppressing
disorder and revolution so that Germany
might live again.
He joined the Nazi movement and be-
came second to Ernst Roehm as leader Of
the Brown Shirts. On March 49, 1881, he
staged a revolt in Berlin, rough and tumble
SHINES style. against Roehm and for a few
hours held the Der Angrif Building, the
newspaper of Joseph Goebbels, minister of
peoples enlightenment and propaganda. He
was expelled from the party, but permitted
to escape" from the country. Two years
later the leaders Of the Brown Shirts. in
cluding Roehm, were washed away in a
blood purge. SHINES is remaining in China
as chief Of Chang Kai-shek's bodyguard.
(copyrisht, 1898, BY the North American News
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