HINDENBURG'S BOOK.

Western Star, 9 April 1920, Page 3

HINDENBURG'S BOOK.

CRITICISM OF ALLIED ARMIES

TRIBUTEi TO BRITISH COLONIALS.

LONDON, April 7. Hindenburg’s new book is mainly concerned with the operations on the East front, where he was commander-in-chief till 1916. Ho takes the Junker view that England ms mainly blame-able owing to commercial jealousy, but he says that the war was also duo to French Chauvinism and Russian greed. He regards the German. as the lord of the. battlefield, though he admits that there was a great deterioration in later years. The French were, he says, better fighters than the English, and their artillery was responsible for the worst crisis. The elite' of the English army were the colonial troops. The American were brave, but unskilfully led. Hindenburg pays an indirect ■ tribute to the Australians in justifying Germany’s assistance to Turkey because' they would thus “ keep 100,000 of the finest enemy troops away from the European fronts.” He mentions the Villers-Bretoneus reverse as finally destroying, the hopes of a decisive victory. Finally, he regards the attack on August 8, as Ludendorff dicli, as “Germany's day of doom.” Hindenburg says: “This was our first great disaster, from which there was no. recovery.” The book concludes with a stirring call to young Germany to prepare for. the future. 'x