HINDENBURG ADMITS FAILURE OF PLAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 185, 5 August 1918, Page 5

HINDENBURG ADMITS FAILURE OF PLAN.

HOPE OF VICTORY THIS YEAR ABANDONED. (Received 1.25 p.m.) . COPENHAGEN, August 4. Marshal yon Hindenburg and General yon Ludendorff, receiving the correspondents of the Berlin newspapers, admitted that the general scheme of the attack had failed, but asserted that the Germans remain masters of tbe situation. The Allied progress on the Marne was not important. Hindenburg said that German soldiers will become just as easily accustomed to the Amcricand as to dealing with black troops. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" says:"We must give up hope that the summer campaign will end the war. The enemy will certainly strike an additional blow and we must reconcile ourselves to a witer's fighting, and probably to another summer, when the Americans will make the struggle difficult for us." It significantly adds:—"The desire for peace increases iv Germany week by week." (A. and N.Z. Cable.) German newspapers commenting on the anniversary of Britain's entry, declare that last week's success strengthened the British moral at home and in the army.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)