Report of Offer to Marshal Ludendorit Since the elimination of Soviet influence from the Kuomintang {in well-known that German military advisers have displaced the former Russian ones, At present Chiang Kai-shek has a number of German officers with him la Nanking, and it is understood that the total is likely to be increased. The report fon this subject are to the effect that very considerable number will ultimately be employed in reconstructing and training: the Chinese army, but the work is being done og unobtrusively as possible, '90 much #0 that additional officers fre coming out only by twos and throes.
In connection with a statement recently made ino well-informed Quarter that these affeers were be-fu selected. personally by Marshal Ludendorf, '& highly interesting report is now current in Shanghai. This is no less than that the Chinese Government asked Ludgadortt to become their chief military adviser Details are not available, but generally presumed that the famous German soldier has declined to come Chi Had' the offer been accepted it would not be the first time that a German soldier of note has been concerned with the Chinese Arm may be remembered that for number of years before the war, Falkenhayn was employed ju such a capacity. At that time, of course, hho had not risen to the commanding position he was afterwards to at-ain, and it is obvious that any suggestion of obtaining a man of the calibre of Marshal Ludendorf? denotes a very different set of circumstances to deal with.
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