MILITARISM IN GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1930, Page 9

MILITARISM IN GERMANY

GRAVE ALLEGATIONS MADE SEQUEL TO WOMAN’S SUICIDE HUSBAND KILLED IN RUSSIA SOVIET ALLIANCE IMPLIED By Telegraph Press Assn,—Copyright. Rec. 7.5 p.m. Berlin, August 28. Political reactions are probable following the suicide of Frau Amlinger, who leaped 3000 feet from an air-liner, travelling yesterday from Frankfurt to Efurt. The Berliner Tageblatt says she committed suicide through grief at the death of her husband, who was a Reichswehr officer nominally retired. He was killed while receiving military aviation training in Russia.

Germany has been forbidden by treaty to maintain a military air force. The Tageblatt suggests that a Reichswehr officer would not be detached for aviation training in Russia without the knowledge of rhe Reichswehr High Command and the journal fears that the affair will spur the French Nationalists to fresh attacks on Germany. It is a coincidence that on the same day as Frau Amlinger committed suicide the newspaper Germania published serious allegations 'concerning the relationship between the Reichswehr and the Russian Red Army. It declared that certain persons in the Reichswehr Ministry were pursuing, a proSoviet policy which implied the existence of imminence of a military alliance.