COLLAPSE OF LUMKERS

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 319, 21 July 1925, Page 8

COLLAPSE OF LUMKERS

G PRAIA NY SEES THE LIGHT SEVERE CRITICISM AT LAST FINDING OF SPECIAL INVEST'D , ’gators (By Electric Cable—Copyright) (Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received July 21. 1 p.m.) Berlin, July 20. The Reichstag Special - Committee has published three monumental volumes containing -1008 page s giv- , ing reason dor the German collapse in the Great War in 1918. - The Committee blames Field Marshal Von Liidendorir.s precipitation, and expresses the view that the exKaiser Wilhelm did not possess the necosary qualities to wold the nation and aniiv, ' THE IPS AND THE TANKS The finding adds: Germany lacked tanks. If she had possessed 000 of t 1 them site would have broken the Allied front in 1910. < R HEIMS BROKE FRITZ 1 Piquant revealations are contained 1 m . the report regarding the causes 1 of tile German failure in 1918. It is admitted that the war was * lost on July IA, when the offensive 1 against IMicims failed. Yet if is 'disclosed Unit long afterwards ITin- •- donburg continued to proclaim that 1 Germany could win on French soil * and dictate peace terms. ! Germany’s foreign police was ( shapcTi accordingly. '

FAITH AND FA I HERE The Committee, however, now declare,; that General Headquarters noted m good faith in clinging as long as possible, to the hope of a satisfactory military peace. The Government trusted the judgment of General Headquarters iill it. perceived itself the impossibility of vic--11 try.