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GERMAN OFFICER SENT TO MOROCCO DURING WAR LOST SIGHT OF FOUND LEADING NOMAD LIFE
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Rec. Nov. 2, 7.0 p.m. BERLIN, Monday. A German ofiicer who was ordered to Morocco to fomemt a native rebellion and was then forgotten by his countrymen has been discovered in Southern Morocco. Lieutemant Erich von Stazern, belonging to a Bavarian regiment, left Fez in 1916 to organise an army of 12,000 natives among the nomads southward of French Morocco. The promised arms and ammunition failed to arrive so the scheme was a failure. Meeting Sve German deserters from the French Foreign Legion in 1920, von Stazern learnt that the war was over and that Germany was defeated, but he was still not officially recalled to Berlin. Later he became leader of the nomad tribe of the Hiba ierritory, where he is now living, being married to a native woman.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 61, 3 November 1931, Page 3
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