VON HINDERBURG

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1930, Page 5

VON HINDERBURG

GALLED A TRAITOR. . [United Press Association— By Electric ■' Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, March 28. General Ludendorff-has reappeared with f an extraordinary attack on 'President Von Hindenburg, accusing his former comrade in : arms of having .destroyed that for which he (IHi'nde'n'burg) fought as 'a Field Marshal by agreeing to/' the" Young Indemnity Rfon. ' General Ludendorff declares ; that 'President Von Hindenburg has for* feitkl the right",according ’to the ]a,\v of the old Army, to carry his field grey uniform, or to take it with'him to his graveyard. General Ludendorff says :—President.. Von Hindenburg’s action conforms‘with his actions when, he was Field Marshal in wartime. It ■ was,; fflways-tTie ,sai}ie, : ./1./wis , s 0 overburdened ‘ with work and consumed ;by the desire, to win a victory with -my Army for the Emperor, that I failed to notice . Marshal. Von Hindenburg was being presented to his people by the Emperor as something entirely different from tlie person he really was. It. was? not until 1927 t.hat I gained a clear insight into the hapenings. It was on November Pth, 1918. that I saw Hindenburg in fob true light.” ' " ' ' •’ He accused 'President Von Hindenburg of inciting the officers of the • Kaisers, and of advising., the Kaiser s Army- to break their oath fealty to tlie-? Kaiser, and of advising the Kaiser to flee to Holland. He declares that President Von Hindenburg was responsible for the rovolus, thin and every misfortune that has iheset German since. He adds: — '“History knows what the old Army Ihinks of actions such as his.” The newspapers are indignant, and -describe the attack as a dirty stab in the back. .