The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-03
.HINDENBURG KNOWS
 ITALY THOROUGHLY
As Well Acquainted with it as with MaZurian Lakes, Says
 Italian NeWspaperman

That Field Marshal von linden burg knows Rome as we'll as he does his famous Mazurian Lakes, is the statement made recently by Cabasino Renda of the GiornaIe d'Italia of, Rome. who accompanied the famous German commander on several of his campaigns in the eastern war zone. Not only does -~Hindenburg know Rome as we'll as any native. but he | also has an intimate Knowledge of practically all Italy, says Renda. The article by Renda, in which he wrote of Hindenburg, appeared in recent issue of the Giorna1e d'Italia, and it has been translated by the Ger | man Information Service, which gave out the English version a few days ago. Renda's article is in part, as follows:
 '"The field marshal is thoroughly i acquainted with Italy and especially with the City of Rome. We spoke of ancient and modern Rome, of it's mon l uments and it's streets. Hindenburg knows Rome IS well as the region of the Mazurian Lakes. He spoke to me about the new sections of the city between the streets of Villa Malta and | Porta Pia with the scientific exact ness of a topographer and an accura- cy in naming the streets which was l positively startling. The man must have an iron memory. | |" Whoever concerns himself with strategy he observed with a glance at my astonished face, must have a memory from which not even the smallest detail escapes, eYen though 1 it is so easy to overlook a detail be- cause of the endless amount of data and impressions which pile up in the | brain. Strategy is based on detail.'
 After he had apprized me of the truth concerning the fables which are circulated about him in connec- ton with his acquirement of his min ute Knowledge of the Mazurian lakes, he continued:
 l ITO be sure, am really at home | in East Prussia. I am an East Prus- sian myself, and I say it with pride, | because I have in a certain sense de- tended my own house against the en- emy.'
 ''The soul of the German Eastern 1 General Staff" Renda, continues. "is a trinity composed of Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and Hoffmann. Those are the three principal actors in the great drama which has been played the Vistula Rivers And it is mar velous how simple and unaffected 1 these three eminent men are.
 1 ''The nervousness which is swaying and troubling the entire world to-day has not found it's way here. It is an effect of the school in which they were trained that the officers of the l General Staff retain their cal1nness and co1d-bloodedness in all situations
 f'' A General Staff,' Hindenburg. said to me, may not have any nerves for a nervous General Staff spreads alarm and confusion throughout the entire army @
 "A nephew of the German Empress, Prince von Hohen1ohe-Langen who is a guest at Headquarters, also t4 asked me for information about the Italian volunteers who are fighting in France. Thus the conversation turn ed to Garibaldi, and I again had the Opportunity of marveling at linden burg's wonderful memory.
 | f'He spoke about the history of the Garibaldian battles with. such 'accu- Tracy in respect to dates, places, and figures of the fighting forces as if he were reading it all from a printed page. Among these masters of stra- tegy who were sitting here the .Gari- | baldian campaigns were discussed from the scientific military point of view with much warmth and interest.
 Nowadays one of the Generals
 said, such methods of warfare are
 probably an impossibility.'
 ' That is true enough said Hin
 denburg, but one of tfte co-efhcients
 of Garibaldis successes was the en- thusiasn, the sacred fire which was kindled from the consciousness that
 they were fighting for a holy and just cause. That is also helping us to-day for we also fortunately have this con- 1 sciousness.'
 ''The time for my departure had ar-
 rived. Hindenburg gave a glance al
 Ludendorf and remarked with a P smile:
 We must now retire, for we still
 have some work to-day. You hays tviSited our front and have Droha hl1
 convinced yourself that preparedness ETOeanS labor