El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-16
Hmdenburg Is Gioen Also
Lutte Power To Crush the
Enemies of the Nation.
STANDS NEXT TO
KAISER IN POWER
With Him Are MacEensen
And Ludendorf As Lieu
tenants To Chief.

n ERIN, Germany, Sept. 1e.-Hin-
denburg. Mackensen. Ludendorff
- these are the names TO conjure
with in Germany today. Into the hands
Of three masters OF war. tried in the
awful fire OF the last two years, the
kaiser has created the greatest mill
tary machine in the world and all lesser
chieftains now bow down before them
There comes a time in titanic strug-
giles when dictatOrs become imperative
Great leaders give way to the great
est A Grant or a NAPOLEON Of in
exorable viii curbs the mighty and
forces all the vast forces of nation
into united effort
That is GermauF's situation today.
Encircled by the iron band of enc
mics the kaiser has sacrificed even
the astute Won Falkenhayn. who him
self succeeded the clever Won Moltke
IN the early days OF the war and Tor
two years had been head OF the great
general staff. Now he in turn must
yield place TO a more splendid genius,
Hindenbur
HindenburE the Great Rock
Hindenburg IS the great rock on
which the formidable armies OF Ger
many and her allies center Luden-
dorff is his alter ego" his second self.
his understuCy. who stands by his side
watching with eagle eve ready 70 pol
ish and round off his chiefs plans
Mackensen is the thunderbolt, the
master OF Offensives. the mail clad fist
with which Hindenburg strikes He
is now in charge of the desperate sit
uation around Rumania. where he is
attempting TO shock Germany's latest
enemy by such a smashing blow from
the south that the Ruman attacks on
other sides will weaken.
German soldiers often call Macken-
sen the Archangel Michael with a
la i've
en- prisoner in Russia recently told
-Petroff, the famous war correspon-
dent or the Russkoe Slovo, how he
made score OF Austrian generals
cover before him and how he burned
a message from the kaiser
Hlndenburg and Mackensen. u is
claimed, work in perfect accord a
present OF Hindenburg, who became
famous in the war by winning the two
great battles in east Prussia and twice
throwing back the Russian invaders.
more is known than of Mackensen and
hundreds of reams have been written
about him
He has always shown himself quite
independent OF the great general staff.
OF which he is now the head
Man Of Mystery.
He was ever a man of mystery and
scarcely known outside military circles
when the war began
In army circles he wss called "der
verruckte Hinrer den Burg (the in
play on his name. II is even hfnte5
the supposedly Omniscient great gen
eral staff once printed behind his name
IN the secret army list the blue cross
that denotes Incompetence and Is the
precursor of an early RELOCATION to the
despised reserve
on one point Hindenburg was de-
cidedly mad. and that was his study
or east Prussia. In order TO be free
from military restrictions he request
Pa ms dismissal. that he might the
more conveniently study the topography
1I the frontier. Often he could be seen
wandering lonesomely along some BY
oath. unsafe by reason Of border snug
slers. towering. mastery, brO0ding
figure.
He devoted years TO his beloved
'tudy and when his plans were com
'leted he retired TO Karlsbad. where
le wrote a little red book entitled The
,ollapse. which was circulated only
mouE the members Of the war coun-
ID and his few private friends. In this
10 wrote
Tells of Frontier Weakness.
"Our east Prussian frontier seems
trong but IS weak. No army can hold
The natural boundaries are either
rom Danzig through POsen - Ratibor.
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