The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1916. HINDENBURG'S BUNKUM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 80, 1 November 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1916. HINDENBURG'S BUNKUM.

I The extraordinary vapourings of, Hindenburg and other German idols merely go to impress upon sane and ordinary people the fact that the German as an individual and as a race is an utterly humourless person, and also that his leaders know that Germany is beaten. In "one interview, doubtless specially prepared as J pap for home consumption and for | neutrals only, Hindenburg is reported j to have said when reminded that j Austro-Hungary was anxious for the; war to end: "We all want that!"j In the same little ■ story from Berlin i we are told that some echo of Hindcn-1 burg's, one von Ludendorff, "sup-j ported Hindenburg's eulogy of the j achievements of Germany's allies, and' added that Germany would not think ',of peace. She had absolutely decided to continue the war." It is not ( wonderful to learn that the interview j has "disappointed" the German pub-, lie, nor to find that the intensely. comic joiirnal Vonvertz is advising France "not to act as a further obstacle to peace," because "Germany wants Europe to live, not only Germany, but the other nations who have done so much towards the pro- 1 gress of the world."' Such hypocrisy, falsehood and folly may possibly beguile the German people a little longer, but we cannot conceive that' it will mislead even such worshipper' of Kiitur as Constantino of Greece,' «or instance. The venom against Britain which Hindenburg displays is merely his master's voice over again,! and an expression of tbe hate and bitterness at Britain's great work for humanity and the world's welfare in' helping to smash German plans of op-' pression. General Hindenburg was most careful in his utterances to state nothing definite. He was, of course, boastful—in a subdued manner for a German idol—and fatuously foolish. To tell the German people that the Bosches' western front is, "impregnable," after French and English cannon have ground their I greatest works of defence to powder,, and the soldiers of the Allies have swept out of existence hordes of Wilhelm's best brand of lighting machine, is simply childish nonsense. The clumsy effort to cause some friction between France and England, is also beautifully Teutonic, but it is neither new nor worth much in " the direction it is meant. Hindenburg as a, talking machine is not a success.