The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. "We nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice." FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1918 HINDENBURG

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 393, 19 July 1918, Page 2

The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. "We nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice." FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1918 HINDENBURG

If Hindenburg De really dead this time, the Prussian Junkers have lost a powerful limb. He was without doubt one of the most striking figures in the great war. Since the first few months of the war, the name of Hindenburg has been the great rallying cry of Germany. He had somewhat of reputation before the war, but was looked upon by the Kaiser as being too old for an active command. Hendenburg was obsessed with the Mazuriau Lakes district, and seems to have known every bay and bullrush off by heart. He spent much of his time there, theorising on military manoeuvres. ''The old man of the Lakes," his subordinates called him, but the old man did not mind the jibes. It is related that when the Russians were invading Hast Prussia in 1914, and the Kaiser's " heart bled for his beloved Brandenbcrg," Hindenburg was soliloquising as usual in a beer garden along with Ludendorff. On the Kaiser's command they set off immediately, planning en route the famous Mazurian Lakes Campaign, which was to end so disastrously for our allies at Osterode and Tamenburg. Hindenburg was soon given complete command on the Eastern front, and then followed the supreme control of the whole Austro-German armies. He became the idol of Germany, and many a wooden image of him has been driven full of nails by way ot a German tribute. His regime on the Western front will ever be marked by his famous "Hindenburg Line," to which the Germans retreated in March, 1917, while the Russians and Roumanians wen: definitely smashed. Latterly, Hindenburg seems to have given place to Ludendorff. Nevertheless the death of Hindenburg is sure to have a great moral effect on the German public, perhaps even more on the Austtians, where internal condition* are not of the best and who have been aggravated by the disaster on the Piave, and by the recent Italian victory in Albania. It is safe to say that, had the deatb of Hindenburg oeeurerl some months ago, it would have had mote effect on the Central Powers than even the death of the Kaiser.