STORY OF VON HINDENBURG.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 71, 24 March 1915, Page 9

STORY OF YON HINDENBURG.

.:. Mrs. "tV. •J. Holloway, who recently returned to England, from Germany, relates a tale told of yon "H3hdenburg*s tactic*, which so far has. uyot been related outside Germany. .- :

;:'7"Wjb-*n; the. Jime-m^noeiryres.-were tak-" ilg.placedat which: .the'"Raiser waV -presenfr, r -<ieiiCTal'-'Tbft''H*-l'aeHburg ~tais i animated with the ambition to test his

"enveloping movement," in which he felt confident of success. So he gave orders,' ■selecting a. hill, on one side of which per. .placed a certain number of his. artillery as a bait to the Kaiser, whita.t..on the other bis infantry were hidden- 1 ■from- sight. - On came the Kaiser andhis •forces, who saw an easy capture, but-' immediately they- were enveloped .-by theinfantry at the other side, much to the chagrin of the great war lord, who' shortly after ordered yon Hindenburg to go and take the' bath's at yon Hindenburg being a martyr to rhen-' matism—and so at Wiesbaden he re r mained. -. — -»*- . "

-.- Time went on, and 'at last the general in command of East Prussia telegraphed the Kaiser: "Cannot hold this place. another day." The reply came back: **I • cannot hold you another day. Go*. Immediately a telegram was <>n its way to yon HindenbuTg. "Your car is wait-' ing. Take command of East Prussia.'" 7 This found the general in the bath, but in twenty minutes* time he was in the 7' car provided, en route for Taonenbourg and the Mazurian Lake district.

Here yon Rindenburg got .his oppor-" tunity of enveloping the Russian army and drawing it into the morass and swampy ground. No one knew this dis-' trict better than he did, and by meansof a short length.of road which he had widened, an advance along it, then a retreat as if his forces 'had weakened, he drew on the Russian army corps to its doom, for this short road led into the worst part of the morses, where men and horses perished in the lakes, whilst thousands were taken prisoners. An officer who escaped states that the shrieks of the horses and men who sank to their doom in this morass were indescrible.