GERMANS OUTWITTED BY FOCH

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 37, 14 February 1919, Page 2

GERMANS OUTWITTED BY FOCH

Maximilian Harden, the German editor, in a. recent interview, declared to the correspondent of the Temps that Germany was absolutely beaten by .the superiority of the French in strategy and by French Generals. Marshal Foch, he declared, was a military leader far above Ludendorff, who had never been victorious on the front. As for yon Hindenburg, the editor characterised him as little more than a figurehead Harden expressed fear that the loss of Alsace-Lorraine would be for Germany a wound like- that suffered by France, but he hoped that the borders would have no great importance in the future. He considered that the former Emperor was not directly responsible for the war, but that he remained still a great culprit, for lie should have been able to avoid the catastrophe, but had not the courage to say "No" at the last moment.

Concerning the present situation in Germany, .Harden feared the extension of the .Bolshevist movement in Germany, if that country wore obliged to make too

great sacrifices. But ho was convinced that, the Socialist revolution would have no influence on France, where the national spirit was not prone to Marxism.