The Archive · 1915

Germans Amok in the Gobi Desert

EXPEDITION TO DESTROY SIBERIAN RAILWAY

Peking, March 11. Enormous amusement has been caused here by the news that Cap tain Rabe von Pappenheim, the German military attache at Peking, has engaged in a filibustering expedition through Mongolia with the object of destroying the tunnels along the Siberian railway between Hailar and Tsitsihar.

Captain von Pappenheim war furnished with shooting passes by the Chinese Government two months ago. He passed through Kalgan and Dolonor whence, accompanied by seven compatriots and twenty camels, loaded with dynamite, and a horde of Hunghutzes he departed in a northerly direction. Large Russian forces are now delightedly waiting near the railway to catch—these doughty exponents of "Kultur."

Meanwhile the Chinese Government is extremely annoyed with Germany at this violation of neutrality and breach of dip-

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