THE END OF THE WAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20104, 24 March 1928, Page 7

THE END OF THE WAR

GERMANYS COLLAPSE Special Committee Issues NonCommittal Report RESPONSIBILITY NOT FIXABLE (By TeleKrapfi—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received March 23, 31 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) BERLIN, March 23. The committee appointed in 3 919 to discover why Germany lost the war has reported to the Reichstag.

The committee declares that the collapse was due to a concentration of various events, and no person or persons were responsible, and adds that the supreme command acted in the belief that they were serving the Fatherland, and nobody in the Government was capable of opposing the supreme command.

There is no proof of a revolutionary movement, and the collapse at the home front and the naval mutiny were not due to sailors joining the Socialists in 1917, despite which discipline was maintained until the autumn of 1918, when the refusal to put to tea was due to war-wearincss and the belief that even a sea victory was fruitless, also to the belief that the fleet was being sent into action for the sake of the nation’s prestige. The naval mutiny was not originally revolutionary, and the committee is unable to ascribe the revolution to any particular incident or discover organised revolutionary leadership.