WAR MYSTERY SOLVED
TRIED TO REACH RUSSIA
BERLIN, -March 11.
The disappearance of the “Pappenheim Expedition” in 1915. one of the mysteries of the world war, has now been solved.
Rabe von Pappenheim, when German military attache, in Peking, set out with two Germans and five Austrians to make his way across Mongolia and the Gobi desert to blow up the Nonni Bridge and a tunnel of the Trans-Siberian Railway. This would have blocked the Russian supplies of munitions.
The expedition set out with fifty camels, laden with explosives, silver to the value of £500,000, and presents to win tire confidence of tribes. Passing through the territory of the Mongolian Prince. Bahusdab. they were received with friendship, and the prince gave a guard of 50 of liis men. Pappenheim did not suspect that Babusdab was in Ur? pay of the Russians. One afternoon, as the expedition was resting, the Mongolians shot them dead.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1935, Page 3
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