GERMAN WAR-COLLAPSE

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 March 1928, Page 7

GERMAN WAR-COLLAPSE

SEEKING THE CAUSE NOBODY TO BLAME (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn— Copyright.)

BERLIN, March 23

On the tenth anniversary of the great German offensive, the Committee appointed in 1919 to discover why Germany lost the war. has reported to the Reichstag Committee. It declares that, the collapse was due to a. concentration of various events, and no person, or persons, were responsible. The Committee adds that the Supreme Command acted in the belief that they were serving the Fatherland, and nobody in the Government was capable of opposing the Supreme Command. There was no proof of a revolutionary movement. The collapse of the home front and the naval mutiny was not due to sailors joining the Socialists in 1917, despite which discipline was maintained until the autumn of 1918, when their refusal to put to sea was due to war weariness and the belief that even a sea victory was fruitless; also to the belief that the Fleet was sent into action for the sake of prestige. The naval mutiny was not originally revolutionary, and the Committee is unable to ascribe the revolution to any particular incident, or discover organised revolutionary leadership. FRENCH HERO’S DEATH. PARIS, March. 23. The terrible death of Edmond Angier, aged 34, a commercial traveller, caused through his car going on fire after colliding with a post, recalls one of the most dramatic authenticated escapes during the war. On August 24, 1914, Angier was attached to a mounted patrol, which was overtaken by Uhlans in the Ardennes. His horse was shot. Angier faced the enemy, killed a Uhlan and was then taken prisoner. He was ordered to carry a German flag through a German village. He refused and was taken to the roadside on the outskirts of the town, where there were eight other Frenchmen. A squad of the Thirtythird German Infantry fired and Angier received four bullets in the arms, legs and side, but was not killed. During the night time, he recovered consciousness, amid the bodies of eight of his countrymen, and appealed to a passing cavalry officer who fired at him, and rode on. Augier lay three days- when the Germans discovered him, and thinking he had been wounded fighting, took him to hospital. He returned to France on September 22, 1916, in a convoy of wounded soldiers. He was awarded a military medal and was promised the Legion of Honour, but refused when offered it after the war.

CANADIAN LEGION.

OTTAWA, March 22.

The annual Convention of the Manitoba Command of the Canadian Legion held at Winnipeg, endorsed the resolution that property as well as men should be conscripted in time of Avar; and passed a recommendation that the resolution be submitted to the Convention of the British Empire Service League, held in Australia in 1930. A resolution on immigration urged that at least 70 per cent of all immigrants be of British stock.