Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-30
HTNDENBURG WINS CHIEF
COMMAND FROM KAISER
ON HIS BALKAN POLICY
Falkenhayn Dismissed Because
of Refusal to Strengthen Line
to Meet Rumanian
Situation
GENERAL STAFF SHAKE-UP

LONDON, Aug. 30.--Kaiser Wilhelm dis
,,issed General Falleenhayn, chief Of the
German General Staff, because Falkenhayn
was opposed to sending troops to the east
orn front to meet Rumanian invasion,
THE Hague correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph reported today.
Field Marshal Won Hlndenburg, who has
been made chief of stan, urged that REIN
agreements be sent to Austria and won the
,u,nort of the Kaiser with the result that
,roop trains are now rushing German SOL
d,ers to the defense of Transylvanla,
Tho change in the General Stan means
,be dismissal of 80 German generals on
10th fronts, the most radical shake-up in
NV army since the war began, the corre-
snondent stated.
% According TO q press report General Won
rudenorf Won Hindenburg's chief of staff,
hos been promoted to imperial quarter mas
ter general
MACISENsEN FOR HIGH COMMAND.
Dlspatches from Berlin today reported
rsteld Marshal Mackensen, In all probable
40 will succeed Won Hindcnburg In SUI
nreme command of the Austro-German
armies on the Russian and Rumanlan
fronts.
tcluck may be recalled to active service and
given command of one of the Austro-Ger-
man armies that will attempt to stem the
pusso- lumanian invasion of Hungary
There Is no confirmation of report from
Tho Hague that both Foreign Secretary
Won JaEow and Under Secretary Zimmer-
{ mann rendered their res gnations after Ru-
,nania declared war. 1t has been learned
from Berlin, however. that neither par
J tlcipated in the conference between Cham
osllor Won Bethmann-TIollweg and certain
shoN fNnl lN.r fn,y
hours the news of Rumanla's action.
From Dutch sources 1t was reported to-
dav that the Kaiser already had ordered
the dismissal of German diplomats respon-
sIble for failing to keep Rumanin out of the
< war.
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 30.-Germany has
realized that the entry of Rumana into the
war may prove a death blow to Austria
and that the Kaiser's armies may soon have
Va fight to prevent the Allied forces from
mailing .an onslaught on German soil.
This is the Interpretation placed here on
Y the action of Emperor william in dismiss
ing General Won Falkenhayn from his post
4 as chief of Staff of the German armies and
/, appointing In his place Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg, to whom the Emperor always
4 has turned when the future has looked
black for the fatherland.
An official announcement OF this impor-
4 tant change in the leadership of the Ger
man forces Is contained in n Telegram re-
ceiyed from Berlin last night by the Rltzaus
n News Agency. The dispatch adds that Gen,
eral Won Ludendorf, who has been Won
2 Hindenburg's chief of staff has been named
quartermaster general
When the new Russian drive was started
in July and the Muscovite forces began
seriously to threaten the roads to Lemberg,
driving before them the armies under the
command of Won Linsingen, Won Woyrasch
and the Austrian commanders in the south,
nobody in Germany was surprised when the
3 Kaiser announced that he had appointed
Won Hndenburg, the Lion Of the Mazu-
"A rian Lakes" the victor of Tannenburg, to
take supreme command of all the armies
on the eastern front
n As the Cars legions continued their ad-
vance through Galicia and began to ham,
mer at the gates Of Hungary the news wns
permitted to be given out that more Inn
portant step had been taken by the Kaiser
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg was sent to
the extreme front in the eastern theateT
with instructions to take command also OF
the. Austrian armies. One of his first acts
was to depose several Austrian generals
and to have the Austrian Crown Prince
placed in ostensible command on the Rus
sian front.