HINDENRURG TALKS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15192, 12 April 1917, Page 3

HINDENRURG TALKS.

EFFECTS OF AMERICA'S ENTRY. (Reuter's Telegram.) AMSTERDAM, April 10. Hindenburg, interviewed by the Berlin correspondent of the Spanish newspaper Vanguardia, said that, in deciding on unrestricted submarining, Germany regarded the possibility of American assistance to the Entente as being without weight. He admitted that America's financial assistance could not be denied, but he contended that this was money, which had not proved tho most important for warfare. He opined that the American supply of war material to the Allies was already so great that increase was hardly possible. On the contrary, supplies were likely to diminish in consequence of the necessity to equip America's own enlarged army. He did not anticipate that the Allies would get much material help from America within measurable time, and it was the submarine's task to diminish it. He declared that in view of the fact that the English, assisted by the Allied fleets, had been unable to overcome the U boats, the American fleet would not succeed. He boasted that the Entente were without weapons against submarines. He said there was a slight possibility of the American army's readiness to proceed to Europe before a year, while the Entente announced that the decision of the war would take place this year. Ho asserted that the East front was fo strong that Brusiloff's most ruthless sacrifices were unable to make headway. He claimed that the events in Russia had promoted German plans. Despite the necessity to concentrate forces last year to repulse Brnsiloff, with the limited resources then available on the West, the Germans repulsed the Anglo-French attack. Things to-day are fundamentally different. The Western front had become so strong that the Germans could withstand every attack. Hindenburg spoke complacently of the Central Powers' absolute security on all fronts and their unprecedented strength and preparedness everywhere. The stibmarining calculations were turning out correctly. Hindenburg concluded with an expression of confidence based on the consideration of all human possibilities.