POST-MORTEM ON THE WAR

Evening Star, Issue 18998, 21 July 1925, Page 5

POST-MORTEM ON THE WAR

GERMANY MAKES IHQUIRIES WHY SHE LOST Piets Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, July 20. (Received July 21, at 9.15 a.m.) The Berlin correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says that piquant revelations are contained in tho report of the Reichstag Committee regarding tho causes of the German failure in 1918. It is admitted that tho war was really lost on July 15, when the ofiensivo against Rheims failed, yet it is disclosed that long afterwards Marshal Von Hindenburg continued to proclaim that Germany could win on French sod and dictate peace terras, and that tho German foreign policy was shaped accordingly. The committee, however, declares that General Hoadquarteis acted in good faith in clinging as long as possible to tho hope of a satisfactory military peace. Tho Government, it adds, trusted to tho judgment of General Headquarters till it perceived itself the impossibility of victory. Iho Times.’ LUDENDORFF BLAMED. EX-KAISER CRITICSED. BERLIN, July 20. (Received July 21, at 9.15 a.m.) The Reichstag Committee has published three monumental volumes, containing 4,098 pages, giving the reasons for the German collapse in 1918. The work blames Marshal Von Ludcndorff’s precipitation, and expresses tho view that the ex-Kaiser did not possess the qualities to weld tho nation and the army together. It adds that Germany lacked tanks. If she had possessed 600 tanks she would have broken the Allied front in 1916.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.