HINDENBURG ’S BOOK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3456, 9 April 1920, Page 5

HINDENBURG ’S BOOK.

LONDON, April 7. I-lindené‘purg’s book, “Out at nly; Life,” is mainly concrcrned with the, operations on the East front, where he was_Commander-in-Chief till 1916.. He takes the junker_ view that England was mainly blameable owing to commercial jealousy, but says the war, was also due to French Chauvinism; and Russian~- greed. He regards Ger« 'm»any'as~ the lord of the battlefield” though he admits great deterioration: in later years". The French Tvere, hot says, better fighters than the English,‘ and their artillery was responsible for. the worst crisis. The elite of the Eng-« lish army were colonial troops. 0 The‘ Americans were brave, -but unskilfully: led. ‘Hindenburg pays an indirect: tribute to the Australians, in justify-4 ing: Grel'many’s assistance toiTurl(e.y,.|' because t.hcKyh thus kept 100,000 of that “finestenemy tr-oops‘ away from the, European fronts.” He mentions _tll-of Vi_llers—Bretonncux reverse . as _,finally stopping’ the iCcpae,'T schrd _e. eoainl Finally he regards the attack on.’ August Bth, as Ludendorlf did, as “Germany’s day of doom.” Hindena. burg says:«?“This was our first great disaster, from which there was no re covery.” The book concludes with a’ prepare for the future. '