BEATEN IN JULY

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12196, 22 July 1925, Page 7

BEATEN IN JULY

BUT HINDENBURG BLUFFED ‘ ' EX-KAISER BLAMED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Sydnev "Sun" Cable.) BERLIN, July 20. The Reichstag Committee has published its report *n three monumental volumes of 4098 pages. The report blames von Ludendorff for precipitation, and declares that the ex-Kaiser did not possess the qualities which weld a nation and an army. It adds that Germany lacked tanks: if she had possessed 600, she would have broken the Allied front in 1916. Published in "The Times." The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says that piquant revelations are contained in the report of the Reichstag Committee regarding the causes of the German failure in 1918. It is admitted that the war was really lost on July 15th, when the offensive against Reims failed; yet it is disclosed that long afterwards Hindenburg continued to proclaim that he. could win on French soil and dictate the peace terms, and the German foreign policy was shaped accordingly. The committee, however, declares that general headquarters acted in good faith in clinging as long as possible to the hope of a satisfactory military peace. The Government, it adds, trusted'the judgment of general headquarters, till it perceived for itself the impossibility of victory.