New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-10
THE HINDENBURG MANIFESTO
Charges Of Allied Weakness Are
Turned Against Germans
To the Editor Of The Tribune.


than the German point Of view. II Is
easy to understand Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg's summing up Of the sup
posed weakened condition Of the Allies
The curious part Of 1t Is the Germans
seem TO think that they have only 20
tell US what they are trying desper'
ately hard to believe themselves 70
make us believe 1t. too.
In describing the insolent French
the stubborn British and the Russian
soldier, whose main quality Is blind
obedience, Won Hindenburg is faith
fully delinesting the only people ne Is
capable Of understanding-the Ger
mans. Every crime committed by the
Germans since the commencement OF
the war they have laid hrst upon the
Allies. France was accused OF drop
ping bombs on Nuremberg; a pitiful
cry was sent up that the desperately
wicked Belgians were ill-trest'ng poor
German soldiers while In the execution
OF their duty-what their "duties" in
Belgium wers all the world knows.
The Allies, We were told by Berlin,
were using poisonous gas long be-
fore the truth came from France that
the inventors and Arst users OF that
ghas.ly weapon were Germans. Then
they sank the Lusitania, pretending 70
believe that it was fully armed, and
hoping to make the world believe IT,
Recently II was given out in Berlin
that the cost Of bread in England was
as high as in Germany. No one is
supposed to know that bread In Eng
land is made Of wheat -four and not
potatoes, or whatever German science
has concoctcd TO look like the stan OF
life"
France, Won Hindsnburg tells US. is
dying; "she will have no soldiers left
II she continues tho war much longer
We thought she had been very much
alive around verdun and the Somme
River lately.
Does he think that he can make any
body believe that her allies, with Aus
tralia, Africa, India and Canada to
call upon, will allow France 10 die!
What the German field marshal
really means Is: Germany Is dying
She and her allies have no colonies to
draw upon. Even their loyal subjects
resident abroad are impotent and can
only show their fidelity TO the father
land by blowing up munition factories
and making fruitless attempts upon
the lives Of bankers, the President and
munition workers-biting the generous
hands that have fed them.
We are told that the West front Is
unbreakable, and that the Allies would
have to attack for thirty years before
they could break through. If It gets
few more kinks like the one from Al
bert to the Somme River IL won't have
to break. Suppose the Allies should
decide to play a waiting game fof
thirty years; could Germany aAord 70
hold out? Is it no. costing Germany
lust as much to be bottled up as II is
costing tho Allies to bottle her!
"Russia's plight is bad, and Ru-
mania's end is near" When Germany
gets mad because she cannot overcome
Russia she will whip Rumania. That
is to be expected. Look at her list OF
victories. Germany, the greatest mill
tary power in the world, has conquered
Belgium, Serbia, Poland. and no doubt
Rumania will be added to the list But
that will be a doubtful glory for future
Germans to boast about.
A good plan is 70 take Won linden
burg's words and reverse each SEN
tence. You will then have the facts OF
the past to enable you to read the real
meaning of German predictions. Here
Is an instance of what is meant: zone
does a great injustice to an army COM
mander by sttributing to him a pro-
gramme," says the field marshal.
Now look back: Paris. Calais, London,
and so forth. Even the dates for the
entry into these cities were carefully
tabulated in the German programme.
We are to believe from Won linden
burg that Enver Pacha is q clean, hon
est and trustworthy man and an excel
lent soldier. While the Teuton felici-
tates the Turk, we incredulous neu-
trails are haunted in our sleep with
visions of butchered Armenians. whose
souls cry out to the civilized world for
vengeance.
To quote Won Hindenburg again: "The
French show great tenscity, but they
are exterminating lives by their meth
DDS Of fighting" German lives. we
fancy. "If the British ask next spring
for one more offensive campaign they
will rob France Of the remainder OF
her army and her national strength
German army and her national
strength. AGNES D. CAMP.
Fordham Heights. n. Y. Nov. 8, 1915