Answer to Criticisms of Employment of Officers Berlin, Jan. 10, In_ connection with a recent article in a Shanghai newspaper in regard to German of China and shipments of war material to China from Germany, it is semi-
Chins, The 'Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the Native officially stated that General makers Association, the' Chinese Rate-Chiang Kai-shek himself brought pagers Association "and:
Tequesting me ike pai] the atiers from Germany.
The German. Government is opposed decision to. resign. in principle to the participation of read all thd letters with gratic Germans in the civil wars fan actual fact that I am foreign countries, so that any German participating warfare in fise many other duties foreign land does so at his own Tam unwilling on the other hand, risk, indifferent, to the kind wishes The same source states that the of so. many hereby, Gemply with your request to continue German Government has nothing Ssiving, Se pour renreentativ onthe to do with the despatch of war rd'for the current Year, request you, ever, to fin Jiis'person material to China, but, like~ other tak my merk at the end.
Governments since the abolition of the year, that {may have the rest the law prohibiting the introduc renan E paserse Ure one tion of weapons into China, it cannot do anything to prevent the shipping of war material to China.
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