“STABBED IN BACK”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 1

“STABBED IN BACK”

BITTER DENUNCIATION OF HINDENBURG ACCUSED OF TREACHERY Reed. 2.20 p.m. LONDON, Friday. Field-Marshal Ludendorff has reappeared in an extraordinary attack on President Hindenburg. He accuses his former comrade-in-arms of having destroyed that for which he fought as Field-Marshal by agreeing to the Young Plan. He declares Hindenburg has forfeited the right, according to the law in the old army, to carry the field grey uniform, or take it with him to the grave. “This action conforms to-his actions when he was a Field-Marshal in war time,” he went on. “It was always the same. I- was so overburdened with work and consumed by a desire to win a victory for my army and my Emperor, that I failed to notice Hindenburg being presented to his people and his Emperor as something entirely different from the person he really was. “It. was not' until 1927 I gained a clear insight -into the happenings of November 9,191 S. It was then I saw Hindenburg in his true light.” Lundendorff accuses Hindenburg of having incited officers in the army to break the oath of fealty to the Kaiser and of having advised the Kaiser to flee to Holland, and adds that he was respon ( ile for the revolution and for every misfortune that has beset Germany since. "History knows what the old army thinks of actions such as his,” he declared. The newspapers are indignant at the attack, which they describe as a “dirty stab in the back.”