WHY GERMANY LOST.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1928, Page 9

WHY GERMANY LOST.

Combination Of Various

Circumstances.

NAVAL MUTINY EXPLAINED,

BERLIN, March 23. On ttie tenth anniversary of the great German offensive the committee appointed in 1919 to discover why Germany lost the war has presented its report to the Reichstag.

The committee's report continues: "No person or persons were responsible. It was a combination of various circumstances and events.

"The supreme command acted in the belief that it was serving the Fatherland and nobody in the Government was capable of opposing the supreme command. There is no proof that a revolutionary movement caused the collapse on the home front.

"The naval mutiny was not due to the sailors joining the Socialists in 1917. Despite that fact discipline was maintained until the autumn of 1918.

"Then the refusal to put to sea was due to war weariness and the belief that even a sea victory would be fruitless; also to the belief that the fleet, was to be sent into action for the sake of its prestige.

. "The naval mutiny was not originally revolutionary and the committee cannot ascribe the revolution to any particular incident, nor can it discover any organised revolutionary leadership."