GERMANY'S COLLAPSE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11762, 24 February 1919, Page 2

GERMANY'S COLLAPSE.

:a military defeat. ENEMY EXPERT’S VIEW. H9WIM Loudou, February 51 Any id ;a that German’s final collapse was due to revolution, or solely to the blockade, is scontad in an article in the Frankfurter Zeitung by the well-known German military writer Major Paulue, SSiBSS “Ludendorff was beaten,” says P,ruins, ‘‘when he commenced to retreat’to the \ Antwerp-Metz line, for this line conld not have been held. Neither flank was la the north'the Dutch frontier fcleffe no room for any retreat which .would not have been a catastrophe. ,In the centre Verdun provided an invitation to the enemy to break through. The line from Diedeuhofen to Metz was already outflanked when the St Mibiul‘salient was lost, while the whole ot our southern frontjjwas full ol disadvantage and too close to the Rhine to be held stubbornly without risk of catastrophe. Major Panlus therefore maintains that Ludendorff was right when at the end of September he announced that it was impossible to continue the war longer, not, says Paulus, because or anything that |had occurred in Germany, but because ot the military situation.