GERMAN DEFEAT.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19268, 24 March 1928, Page 15

GERMAN DEFEAT.

WHY WAR WAS LOST. NOT DUE TO REVOLUTION. (BT CABLE *JiBSB iSSOCIiTIOS—COPIRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN A.ND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received March 23rd, 7.30 p.m.) BEBLIN, March 23.

On the tenth anniversary of the great German offensive, the committee appointed in 1919 to discover why Germany lost the war lias reported to the Reichstag. "The collapse ivas due to a concatenation of various events, and no person or persons were responsible, ' it declares.

'Hie committee adds: ''Those in Supreme Command acted in the belief that they were serving the Fatherland, and nobody in the Government was capable of opposing them. "There is no proof of a revolutionary movement causing the of the home front, and the naval mutiny was not due to sailors joining the Socialists in 1917, despite whifii discipline was maintained until the autumn of 1918, when war weariness, and the belief that even a sea victory was fruitless, and aiso to the belief that the fleet was sent into action for the sake of prestige.

"The naval mutiny was not originally revolutionary and the committee is unable to ascribe the revolution to any particular incident, or discover any organised revolutionary leadership."