DILEMMA FOR GENERAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23527, 16 June 1938, Page 11

DILEMMA FOR GENERAL

PEREMPTORY RECALL NAZIS IN CHINA ALARMED BERLIN, June 6. More peremptory orders have been sent by Herr Hitler to General von Falkenhausen, recalling him as one of the German advisers with the Chinese Army. The instructions have been sent through the German Ambassador at Hankow, Herr Trautmann. Following protests by Japan, the German Government decided recently to recall the 38 German advisers with the Chinese forces, and to cease supplying China with arms, A large section of the German War Office, the General Staff, and the Foreign Office sympathises with General von Falkenhausen, who must decide whether he will desert the Chinese Generalissimo. Marsha! Chiang Kai-shek, in, his hour of need, or disobey Herr Hitler One fact that will undoubtedly weigh with General von Falkenhausen in his decision is that his brother was shot in the Nazi purge in 1934. A group of extreme Nazis >s strongly advocating the claim of the Japanese that the continuation of Genera] von Falkenhausen on the staff of the Chinese Army will prolong the war without reversing the military situation or preventing the “ inevitable ” victory of the Japanese . The German Chamber of Commerce in China, German firms and even the Nazi Party there have sent protests to Berlin against the decision to cease aiding China. It is reported that the Nazi chief in China warned Berlin that Germans in the interior of China must be evacuated before the German advisers were finally withdrawn, and the supply of arms stopped.