HINDENBERG AND LUDENDORFF.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2668, 18 December 1928, Page 6

HINDENBERG AND LUDENDORFF.

THE HATE THAT SPRINGS ETERNAL. Hindenburg and Ludendorff are not now, the chums that they were a little over ten years ago. Hate, it seems, like hope,- springs eternal in the human breast, and since the pail cannot hate Britain, together now the former is president of Germany, so they hate one another. Last year Ludendorff could hardly bring himself to meet Hindenburg at the unveiling of a memorial on the field of Tanncnberg, but in Max Baden’s Memoirs, the author gives the credit for the battle to Ludendorff, who claims it. But recently he sent an urgent telegram to the President, which read, “I have received through the post notice of death sentence by the Free Masons. This is the freemasons’ reply to my smashing exposure of their crimes. Millions of Germans expect you to intervene immediately, and liberate the people from the plague of these criminals. Please confirm receipt of this telegram personally.” Hindenburg was

away from town then, and after four days had elapsed, his secretary telegraphed in reply, “I have the honour respectfully to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram on behalf of the Reich President.” The Ludendorff newspaper then waxed furious and declared that anyone who still believes that the names of Hindenburg and Ludendorff belong together has now got something to think about. In the meantime, there has been no news of any assassination.