Falkenhayn
ERICH G. A. S.
VON, a German general, born in 1861.
He graduated from the war academy in instructor in China. He was major of 1880 and was for three years military the German brigade of occupation in eastern Asia and was on the staff of during the operatime time of the Boxer uprisings, in 1900. In tions of the German contingent at the 1912 he was Prussian Minister of War, Lieutenant Forstner, against whom public opinion had been deeply aroused on and as such was a strong supporter of account of his attack on a lame civilian in Zabern, the notorious " Zabern affair." the latter having been relieved of his In October, 1914, he replaced Von as Chief of the German General Staff, In October, 1914, he replaced Von Moltke German General Staff, duties because of a disagreement over the tactics of the armies in France with the Emperor. General Falkenhayn was in command of the German-Austrian forces which invaded Rumania in 1916 by way of the passes in the Carpathians, in the south, on the banks of the Danube. effecting a junction with Von Mackensen nicipal burgh and market-town of Stir-