WAR SCHEME FAILURE
Isolated german officer. (Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN, November 2. A German officer who was ordered to Morocco to foment a native rebellion and was forgotten by his countrymen has been discovered in Southern Morocco. He is Lieutenant Erich von Stazen, He belonged to a Bavarian regiment and left Suez in 1916 to organise an army of 12,000 natives among the nomads south of French Morocco. The promised arms and ammunition failed to arrive, so the scheme was a failure. Meeting five German deserters from the French Foreign Legion in 1920, von Stazen learned that the Great War was over and Germany defeated, but he was not officially recalled to Berlin. Later von Stazen became the leader of a nomad tribe in the Hiba territory, where he is now living. He is married to a native woman.
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Northern Advocate, 3 November 1931, Page 5
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139WAR SCHEME FAILURE Northern Advocate, 3 November 1931, Page 5
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