ARMY PLOT EXPOSED

Hawera Star, Volume L, 23 October 1930, Page 8

ARMY PLOT EXPOSED

GERMAN TEACHING RUSSIAN'S

LOVE SUICIDE GIVES CLUE. Political scandals in Germany artlikely to follow the suicide -of I"'ran Elfriede Amlinger, who threw her sc I! from a passenger areoplane Hying bOUJft above EranKiort. She killed herself because she could not live without her husband, who had been killed a week previously, and her act will probably shatter the secrecy in which the German Government has shrouded the circumtanees of his death. It had been announced that Anilinger, a German army officer, had fallen in a horse race and broken his neck. The truth is that lie was killed in an aeroplane crash in Russia, where he was employed by the Soviet as a training pilot. But for his wife's suicide no one except his relatives would have known how Amlinger met his death. As it is, the revelation will throw a glaring light on intrigues between German army leaders and the Soviet.

It has always been officially denied that there were any close relations between the German Army and Russia, but Frau Ainlinger’s husband was a captain on the active list, and could not be sent to Russia without the knowledge of the War Office. r l liedisclosure, says the “News of the World” gives substance to the rumours that the German and the Bolshevik armies are. working hand-in-hand, and that a military alliance is being tentatively sought. Russians, it is stated, have been employed on German railways, and German officers are constantly travelling- between Berlin and Moscow.

Desperate, but clumsy, official attempts are being made to cloak the truth about Amlinger’s death, but a discussion of the .political and military significance of the tragedy had already begun, and may have far-reaching effects both in Germany fin'd France.