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Show C"GE ARMY NOW TRAINING IN ORIENT VSHINOTON, Aug. 10. Field Iml von Mackcnscn and 8,000 an oDlcers have been In China early spring training a Clilncso of 6,000,000 men, according to er Dr. E. L. Scharr of Wnshlng-innounced Wnshlng-innounced today that ho hnrl recclvod from his brother In any. lb nun ono otdttio first letters ,f known to havo beonrecolvod here since tho resumption of mall servlco 1 between the United States and Oer- many. Press dispatches from Germany Ger-many anl nearby neutral, countrlos for the past several months hare been conspicuously lacking In refcr- ences to the whereabouts and activi ties of Field Marshal on Mackon-psen, Mackon-psen, who became one of tho most pop-fr pop-fr ular of tho Gorman commanders as b. result ofhls succcsshtl operations $ in Rumania. Tho letter was written In Gcr- ' fa many. According to Dr. Scharf's translation It stated: ( "Genoral Mackonscn has Just re- i turned from China, where ho went early In tho spring at the Invitation of tho Chlneso government with 8,000 German oulccrs to organize and drill an army of 5,000,000 men." i Tho Iotter went on to explain, Dr. I Scharf said, that tho field marshal')! object In returning to Germany at this timo was to Becure additional of-l of-l fleers for tho work in China. Ho fx- i pects to return to China at an early ;. date and,sreaumo Intensive training J on an elaborate scale. Dr.' Scharf has 'b'oott"In tltlrtutf try for about forty years. Ho said I he took the oath of allegiance to tho United States about seven years af ter his arrival.. Ho was formerly a professor in the Catholic university ' he,re and numbers among his friends many men prominent In public life. His brother's ofllclal position in Germany, Dr. Scharf said, is such ji that the information concerning Field Marshal Maokenscn undoubtedly - reached him direct fiom government !k circles. VAI'ANESK WAR HINTED As no ofllclal Information has been received in Washington of the drilling drill-ing or a Chinese army of 6,000,000 j..V Field Marshal von Mackcnscn, nr-' nr-' my officials here were unwilling to dlscuRs tho report or comment upon the possibilities which It suggests. If ft really- bo a fact that Field "Martial von Mackonscn Is actually so ; engaged, it wpuld scorn to Indicate t that the Chlneso had awakened to I I the menace ot Japanese aggression , nnd, having llttlo hope that tho ng- , greslon would be stopped by the big tj -five of the lengua of nations, were R preparing to resist It with tholr own 1 military power. mw-1 mw-1 1 China's former experience In en-b en-b gaging In war with Japan brought I the cnmpleto realization that a pall pa-ll clflc people Is powerless ngahiBt n n Jfihi' ,.'ttnlxeTin':Uary na'lon. For. U rChlna to nttempt to resist Japnn with Ifif out proper military preparation un- 5j doubtedly would simply augment the ff spoliation which Japan Is now en-, en-, deavoring to perpetuate. Tlioroforo it Is thought, tho Cliln-j Cliln-j cso havo employed Von Mackonscn B to train sufllclent Chinese forces cf-, cf-, K t eclivoly to meet tho Japaneso in case tj Japan insists upon carrying out her W program of territorial nggrandlze-M nggrandlze-M ment at China's exponso. a ii!:itrr.(iK roit tiu: auks A sign boaul near a mln at Ypros, IJelgiuni, asking that 'the dvbila be Iirt unloucbcil an It Is holy ground and a heritage for all civilized peoples. |
