GERMAN PRESIDENT

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17983, 31 March 1930, Page 9

GERMAN PRESIDENT

ATTACK BY LUDENDORFF. RESPONSIBLE FOR REVOLUTION* THE NEWSPAPERS INDIGNANT. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, March 28. General Ludendorff has reappeared with an extraordinary aLtaek on the President, General von llindenburg, accusing his former comrade-in-arms ol' having destroyed that for which he fought as a Pi eld-Marshal by agreeing do the Young Plan. Ludendorff declares that von Ilindenburg has forfeited the right, according to a law of the old army, to carry a field gray uniform or fake it with him to the graveyard. “Ilis action conforms with his actions when he was Field-Marshil in war lime. It was always the same. I was so overburdende with work and consumed by the desire to win victory with my army for the Emperor that I failed to notice that von Hindcnburg was being presented to hi.s people by the Emperor as something entirely different from the person he really was. It was not until 1917 that I gained a clear insight into happenings. It was on November 9, 1918, that I saw von I-lindenburg in his true light.” He accuses von llindenburg of inciting officers of the army to break their oath of fealty to the Kaiser, and of advising the Kaiser to flee lo Holland, lie declares that von llindenburg was responsible for the revolution and every misfortune that had beset ..Germany, since “history knows what the old army thinks of actions such as his.” The newspapers are indignant, and describe the attack as a direct stab in the back.