WAR REVIEWED.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1920, Page 5

WAR REVIEWED.

AS SEEN BY HINDENBURG. TRIBUTE TO COLONIAL TROOPS. By Teleeraph.—Press Aasn.—Copyright. Received April 8, 11.10 p.m. London, April 7. Hindonburg's book, "Out of My Lire," is mainly concerned with the operations on the Kast front, where he was Ccm-mander-in-Chief till 1916. He takes the Junker view that England was mainly blameable, owing to commercial jealousy, but lie says the war was also due to French Chauvinism and Russian greed. He regards the German as the Lord of the battlefield, though he admits a great deterioration in later years. The French were, he says, 'better fighters than the English, and their artillery was responsible for the worst crisis. The elite of the English army were the colonial troops. The Americans were brave, but unskilfully led. Hinde.iburg pays an indirect tribute to Ihe Australasians in justifying Germany's nseistcne? to Turkey, because they thus "kept a hundred thousand oi the finest enemy troops' away from the liuropean fronts." He mentions the Villers Bretonneux reverse as Anally destroying the hopes of a decisive victory. Finally, he regards the attack on August 8, as Ludendorff did, as "Germany's day of doom." Hindenburg says: "This was our first great disaster from which there was no recovery." The book concludes with a stirring call to young Germany to prepare for the future.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.