Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-11-10
,erdence. could not stay his further

pendence. could not stay his further
progress.
At the beginning of the war he was
beaten, as he had foreseen. for he had
been ordered to hold the line that was
untennble. When he had been sew
eral times seriously defeated, he in
formed the general staff that he re-
quired no further instructions, but
would fight in accordance with his own
plans. II was then that he began to
clear the province, and finally, by the
crushing defeat at the Masurian lakes,
he smashed Russia's military activity
for Mt least twelve months.
Gets Crown Princes Supplies.
He has. never bowed the knee to the
Camarilla. According to the calculn-
tons of the general staff, the German
troops were to hibernate In the large
cities of Russia, but their winter quar-
tiers proved to be the frozen fields. No
provision for skin coats had been
made, and In spite of the heavy de-
liverles that were being sent to the
Camarilla generals on the western
front, Hindenburg obtained no salts
factory answer to his repeated requi-
sitions.
He went In person to Berlin and In
the store depot he found u large con-
slgnment, which he ordered to be
rallied to his supply headquarters,
which were then ut Thorn. The horri.
fled official informed him that the
skins were for the army of the crown
prince, and therefore could not be
taken away. Hindenburg swore u
volume of oaths, and In the end oh
tanned them.
Some of the great character traits
of Hindenburg are his piety, his love
for the fatherland and his faithful
ness to the kaiser. When he was n
young lieutenant he used to carry the
| New Testament in his breast pocket.
| This saved his life during the Franco
German war. A bullet struck the book
but did not penetrate all the pages.
Ii Is well-known fact that In the
church of Glauwitz Hlndenburg prayed
aloud for victory. Hindenburg's pri-
vate life is absolutely clean. He new
er played cards or drank excessively
and he hardly ever smoked.
Hndenburg never speaks of fate OF
luck. He does not talk about genius
but he believes that God helped him
God helped me to gain a victory, ant
the kaiser gave me the soldiers, III
made me commander, he trusted me
BE grateful to God and the kaiser
do not thank me-" Is what he told til,
people of East Prussia when the.
came to thank and praise him as thei
deliverer.
AS professor of the "Kriegs Aka
demie" (sent there by the order of tn
general staff Hindenburg found tn
best occasion to educate the yOun
officers in the most important sub
Ject--"applied military tactics" Fred
erick the Great invented for the benz
tit Of his army officers the "Krieg
Spiel" (war game) and Hindenbur
followed In the footsteps of the Pru:
sian king by Improving this war gam
Cut Imposing Figure.
When Hlndenburg was studying
the "Kriegs-Akademie" (1S73-76), b
became pupil of Prof. Pochhamme
who tells us that Hindenburg cut Il
imposing figure. He called this soldie
over six feet tall, with broad shOu
y ders, short-cropped hair, and big mu
# tache, broad forehead, "the living pc
4 sonificaton of the war god" Whe
G Professor Pochhammer In his lecture
s became tedious and tiresome Hlnde
denburg used to take out his map
pencils and compass and commend
to work ON plan for an imaglnal
r. battle, without paying any attenti'
q to the professor.
!, In 1870 he fought against the Fren'
, in the battles of st. Privat and Sed;
~ and was decorated with the order
=, the Red Cross and the Iron Cross
In 1911 he retired from active ser
, ice until the war of 1914 broke OF
:, when he again returned to the arn
. and was appointed commander In (
:. East.
49, or Ludendorff even Germans tod
-, know little. But high army Office
a., say he deserves n large share or Iii
:, denburg's fame. lie has been Ill
~ denburg's chief Of staff since Augu
1914, and has worked out the splent
bits Of strategy which time and aga
~ have baffled the Russian hordes.
- Now that Hindenburg has becol
chief of the great general stan II
io only second to the kaiser, Ludendo
IL has been made quartermaster geneI
His name is signed to the brief da
ei official bulletins in which the gene
III staff chronicles the progress or
We war. And his Is the first name Il
Ell has been appended to them.
'h' He is the friend, adviser and C
me slant companion of Hindenburg, {
,sS they are said to work together
ne two parts of smooth-running