Foreign News: Recalled

"I feel sure of China gaining a final victory. Japan will fail both in war and peace."

With these words 60-year-old General Alexander von Falkenhausen left Hankow, China's temporary capital, for Germany last week. With him went 20 or more other German military advisers. No secret was it that General von Falkenhausen had no desire to leave China, that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had used all means to persuade him to remain, that the German military commission departed only after peremptory orders had been issued from Berlin. It was reported that in "a...

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