LUDEHDORFF A LIAR

Evening Star, Issue 17085, 2 July 1919, Page 6

LUDEHDORFF A LIAR

A RIVAL OF YON TJRPITZ. General Ludendorff is a liar. Ludexxdorff and Ids supreme army command in lying ran a dose race with Admiral Tiirpitz and has successors in command of the general army. Lndendorff’s reports during the last six months of the war before the signing of the armistice, ware lies approaching tho -ridiculous This is what Frederick William, tho fonr.-er German Crown Prince, so id to a Scandinavian- correspondent witting for the ‘ Berlinsko Tidencte.’ He continued : Hero is what I wrote' about General Ludendorff in my memoirs-: He rose solely on account of lx is energy that knows neither bounds nor obstacles, and hia talent far organisation, which is really unique and cannot lx 1 beaten. All these qualities of his are excellent, for a short campaign that is Unbilled, within a certain .period of time, but they ore insufficient, and will fail when it comes to waging and winning a long war. He succocferl in drawing the last man available in the riiortest time possible. He succeeded also in getting the utmost results out of the rai 'roads. But in the long ran this over-exertion was bound to lead to the pation’is ruirr. I am a confirmed, automobiliat, and take my similes from whore 1 am at home. Germany, ruled bv General Ludondorff, you could compare" with a motor which you keep running for veal's without interruption at top speed. Some tine day that motor will suddenly break down without giving previous warning. Last summer I said to the Kaiser ; “ The first division of the Guards, the troops closest to my heart, men who have fought bravely and -honorably oh all the fronts, has been badly shattered! in tire spring offensive. Their losses have been very heavy. There are only 800 rifles left on tho first line.. That division needs four to five weeks for recuperation. But hero is a command ordering that very division', after only one week's rest, back to the float lines. That means, da my opinion, that it 'will he entirely wiped out in tho very first charge that will be ordered. Not a 'single man of tho whole division will he left The Kaiser listened attentively, and; the next morning, when tire general staff reported to him, he rose and said : _“ My son, tire Grown Prince, has been pointing out to me that ” Tiro Emperor could not finish. Ludenclorir was up in arms .immediately. He jumped- to his feet, his face fluebod,_and, through his monocle, stored at the Kaiser as if he wanted to pieixse -him. LUDENDORFF WINS. “ This is scandalous," he shouted. “It is scandalous and unprecedented that .such matters should Ire submitted to the Supreme War Lord. I demand that he should confine has. activities to matters peculiarly his own in tho future. lie must not again interfere with our dispositions. Tiro first division of tho Guards must and will again enter the battle at a time when we shall -see fit to give tiro order. That division has been zested a week, and other troops had to be satisfied with the same measure of recuperation. Our soldiers cannot expect to do any better under tho present pressing dreamsiances. Tho Crown Prince’s soldiers are not naked to do any more than what other troops have been expected to perform. The first division of the Guards is merely expected to do the ordinary, regular duty.” “That -ended' tho matter so far as my first division of the Guards was concerned. The Kaiser assented 1 when Ludenclorff had finished, as he usually did.” In concluHion, the Grown Prince offered to swear to the truth of the'statement that the famous Crown Council of_ Potsdam, said to have been the occasion at which the Kaiser and his counsellors decided to begin the world war, is a myth, and that it never took place.