GENERAL’S WAR STORY

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3797, 15 August 1932, Page 8

GENERAL’S WAR STORY

G E RM A NY’S C TIA NCELLO R NEARLY CAPTURED IN P YAM AS Few people in Australia ran Uavcwatched the recent career of the Chancellor of Germany, Colonel von Papen, with greater interest than General Sir H. Chauvel, who at a recent gathering- of the Victorian branch of the Returned Soldiers League related how the Australian j troops in Palestine during the war had narrowly missed capturing the then Captain von Papen in pyjamas, when Hie enemy rapidly evacuated Nazareth. “That we did not catcli von Papen and his chief (Liman von Sanders), ’ said Sir H. Chauvel, “is a matterft-iF deep regret. Sir E. Ailenby, who was in command, however, did not seem to worry much about him, and Sir E. Ailenby was a man with whom it was no use to argue.” When tlie capture of Nazareth was approved, Sir H. Chauvel continued, tlie brigadier in charge made the one mistake of bis life and did not send anyone to the rear of the village. VOll Sanders and his chief of staff, von Papen, got away, but the f£sfc of the staff, had been captured.

in their nig-ht attire. (Loud applause). "I bear him no ill-will,' 1 Sir H. Chauvel concluded, ‘'and L hope he will make a better job of his present difficulties. ...Our old efiemy is perhaps in the most difficult circumstance,s of any nation in Europe at the moment, and civil war seems imminent. I hope Colonel von Papen will g-et through all right. 4 ’