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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 364, 10 April 1915, Page 8

Field-Marshal von llindenburg, the idol of Berlin, and the hero of the East battle front (according to purely German ideas.) is on the way to losing his reputation, if a notice at Neuve Chapelle speaks truth. That notice announces: llindenburg is coming with half a million men. The old man would do well not to tempt fortune too far. Flanders is not Poland, as he will discover. Against the Grand Duke, Ilindenburg achieved big, if somewhat negative, things, chiefly because he had a perfect strategic railway system to his hand. In the West that superlative advantage will be missing. He will be compelled to rely on himself and the means and men at his command for success, and if .he Avins through it will be where the choicest minds of the Gorman high command have '.hopelessly failed. In the ' West 'he will be set against an enemy at least as mobile as himself, imbued with a liner fighting ardour, and probably better armed and supported, while a distinct, disability will be the presence of that innocuous tactician, the Crown Prince, outside 'Verdun. The grizzled Field-Marshal had best stay where he is. He has spilled German blood like water in Poland without any strategic gains (or hurt to his reputation), but there will be grim doings in the West presently —doings in which an elderly leader with a reputation could easily.be out of place.