OLD GENERALS ON GERMAN FRONT
The two idols of the German nation, Von Hindenburg and Von Mackensen, are men of sixty-eight and sixty-six respectively. ' With the exception of Falkenhayn,. the Ohief of the General Staff who is fifty-four, and the Crown Princes of Bavaria and Prussia, who owe their positions to birth rather than ability, there is not a German _ commander under sixty in a position or the first importance. Their ages run: Haesler • • •••••.£•> Von der Goltz •••••• /« Von Bissing '} Von Falkenhausen <i Von Kluck °JLeopold of Bavaria ° J Von Bulow • Von Hausen • — AVovrsch •"• 6 » Eichhorn 67 Emmich ...' . Moltke 65 Loinsingeu ■••"' gg Heeriugen :"" fi , Soholtz •
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2758, 29 April 1916, Page 14
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104OLD GENERALS ON GERMAN FRONT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2758, 29 April 1916, Page 14
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