LUDENDORFF'S ESCAPE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

LUDENDORFF'S ESCAPE.

" LEFT BERLIN IN DISGUISE.

Ludendorff, who has been made the military scapegoat of the Kaiser and tho Potsdam gang, escaped from Berlin only two days before the revolution broke out. At that time ho was hiding in civilian clothes in a little pension in the city. A certain nobleman from the Eastern Marches of Germany, who in the past frequently opposed Ludendorffs reckless policy, and therefore got himself into considerable trouble, heard where he was, and decided that he must be assisted to The nobleman procured a passport in a false name, drove round to the oension, and sent his orderly up to'etch Ludendorff. Ludendorff refused to leave the bouse. Tho next day the gentleman returned to make another attempt. On the way the car was stopped by a picket of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Conned, and the passport had to be thrown into the gutter in order to avoid discovery. On arriving at the pension the orderly was sent up again with a razor and a [Sombrero, and instructions to shave off LudendcrfFs moustache, rut the sombrero on his head, and bring him down at all costs. These instructions were carried out. How Germany's military dictator subsequently crossed the frontier without any; passport and whore he went cannot be told yet, but it is a fact, telegraphs the Times Berlin correspondent, that he has no longer a moustache.