GERMANY'S ONLY HOPE

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 55, 2 September 1916, Page 5

GERMANY'S ONLY HOPE

HINDENBURG'S NEW ROLE

PRACTICALLY DICTATORIAL POWERS

(Received September 2, 8.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Ist September. The New York Times correspondent in Berlin says that the Kaiser is giving Yon Hindenburg practically dictatorial powers. His appointment is designed to act as a tonic to the morale of the German nation. "IF HINDENBURG CANNOT SAVE US WE ARE LOST!" (Published in The Times.) (Received September 2, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Ist September. The Times correspondent at Apisterdam states that the feeling in Germany may bo summarised thus : If Yon Hindenburg cannot save us we are lost. However, there aro many indications that the more enlightened Germans realise that the game is up. Their only hope is Hindenburg, who may, perhaps, avert an overwhelming disaster. NATIONAL HERO MUST BE TRUSTED IMPLICITLY. (Australian-New Zealand Cable Association.) (Received September 2, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Ist September. Berlin is beflagged, and the shop windows display garlanded portraits of the Kaiser, Yon Hindenburg, and Yon Ludendorff (Hindenburg's Chief of Staff). ' ■" " The newspapers, including the Vossiche Zeitung and Frankfurter Zeitung, and an article by Major Moraht in the Berliner Tageblatt, expressing immeasurable joy at the placing of the whole command in the hands of the national hero, and warn the people to trust him implicitly, as admittedly the times are critical. The Austro-Hungarian newspapers are distinctly depressed.