MONARCHIST PLOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 106, 7 May 1929, Page 7

MONARCHIST PLOT.

German Colonel Dies Of Smallpox In China. LONG WAR CAREER. J&nstralian and N.Z. Press Association.): <Received 9.30 a.m.), c SHANGHAI, May 8. Colonel Max Bauer, General Ludenaorff'a chief of staff during the Great War, has died in the Shanghai Isolation Hospital from smallpox. Bauer, a few i montha ago, was appointed head of the 80 German military experts , for the purpose of reorganising the Nationalist Army at Nanking. Max Bauer, who was Ludendorff's right hand man during the war, and took part in the Kapp plot, entered the army as a youth. In 1890 he became an officer in the field artillery, while nine years later he .was appointed to the Artillery Testing Commission. He joined the general staff in 1905, when ita chief, Count Schheffen began to develop heavy artillery. Irom 1908 to 1912 Bauer worked at this arm W the mobilisation section of the War Office, which was under the control of Ludendorff, and which, during the war, became the operations section. He was prganiser of the plan for reducing fortresses by means of fire from the heaviest artillery, closely followed by infantry masg attack. Hia method was brilliantly •nccessful at Antwerp, Liege and elsewhere, and his.services were recognised by the bestowal of an honorary degree by the Berlin Universities. From 1912 to 1913 he'had acted as divisional officer at Colmar, but returned to the great General Staff at the end of the latter year. From the next year till the end of the war he terved without interruption operations eection. After the appointment of Ludendorff as chief of staff, it was Bauer who worked out the famous "Hindenburg Plan." The remarkable vigour with which he thrust aside all obstacles when he wanted to carry out his plan did not add to hie popularity with those concerned. In March, 1920, with Kapp and General Luttwitz, he took part in the abortive conspiracy to overthrow the Republican Government. His old chief, Ludendorff, was also involved in it. After the speedy collapse of the plot Bauer had to flee the country, and lived for the most part at Budapest. He was among those amnestied in 1925, and returned to Germany where he lived in retirement. In 1938 it Was reported that he had gone to be the military adviser to the Chinese general.