WHY GERMANY FAILED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 March 1928, Page 9

WHY GERMANY FAILED.

COMMITTEE FINDS REASONS.

CAUSE OF NAVAL MUTINY

BY CABLE--PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. BERLIN, March 28. On the tenth anniversary of the groat German offensive, the committee up pointed in 1919 to discover why Germany lost, the war has reported to the Reichstag. Tlio committee declares that the collapse of the Germans was due to a concatenation of various events and that no reasons or persons we. e responsible. The committee adds that the supreme oinmand acted in the belief that tli-y cere serving the Fatherland, and nobody in the Government was capable of opposing the suprpma command- There was no proof of a revolutionary movement. The collapse at the home front an dthe- naval mutiny were due to the sailors joining the Socialists in 1917, despite which discipline was maintained in til th;? autumn of 1918, when the refusal to put to sea. was due to war weariness and the belief that even a sea victory was fruitless; also the be'ief that the fleet was sent into action ’or thj3 sake of prestige. “The navhl mutiny was not originally revolutionary, and the- committee •f unable to ascribe: revolution to any organised revolutionary leadership.” says the report. . “We were unable to find facts justifying Germany’s war guilt,’’ declares the report. It suggests that the Reich dag msv consider it expedient to pubHdr the causes of Germany’s final debacle, which mav be ascribed to a ''omhination of circumstances.