Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-04
GERMANY HONORS HINDENBURG IN
 10TH BIRTHDAY
Recalls Interesting Story of Blunt Remark 10 the
 Kaiser IT 1911.

iondon. Oct. ,. Recent, advccs from Berlin tell of the elaborate preparations made througbput G,sr- many for the celebration hcIB today in honor of the70th birthday anniversary of Field Marshal Von iiindenburg, the chief of staff of the Germany army and thc most successful of the feuton commanders in the present war. In Berlin and other of the principal cit
 s of tbe empire the day was obserV ed in manner that as nearly ap- ffoach q popular fetc day as ls pos. aible under existing conditions. Exer- ciscA appropriate to the occasion were held in all the schools, when the pupils were told of the services that Von liindeburg has rendered to the Path crland Popular subscriptions were taken up in aid of the Hindenharg fund for the sick and Wounde ed That the kaiser will mark the occasion by beslowal of hph honors on the man who has proved the ablost of his miij- tary commanders is regarded as q fareponc conclusion, although the ex act nature of these honors has not been disclosed It has been reported that he will be made q prince.
 Von lindcnburg, like Joilrc and sev~ eral other of the greatest commanders in the present war, has won his fame at an age at which Am maricans are in clincd to scrap" their army and navy officers as no longer capable of active aeriVee llc was in his 67th year when called from retirement to take com mand of the German armies opposing i the Ru%elan invasion ln East PfHssla At the that time the world at large IWas unfamiliar with the very name of l iIindenburp Even to the German public his name was little known, al- 1 fhouph m the army there were many veteran officers who knew and cs- tcemed him
 The credit for discovering linden l Ihutp i4 said to be the Halsor's due. and i 1T such tx the fact there was a certain l maguaulmity in the discovery. The Iatorv goee that Ilindenburg's retire 4ent ln l9i was aecNicrated by hFs i jbbHtucss of speech and manner. he l having at Inc close of summer maneu- verN, in which he Alphabetically de l tcated Che kaiser, told the latter that i had t been real war hn would have ldriveu him into Inc Baltic However, when the Bussians in '9li were driv- i mo atlajYhl towards Berlin and it bc. Itame necessary to give the command on thc Eastern front to 9 man who
 VaA thorougbi9 familiar with that soc ition, Jhr knj.r was more than will inp fo tet byVones be hvGonos.
 fttudonhmH's succeSsos havc heon
 the most pronounced of anN ef the Gernn commanders In East puU
 aa h. t91ie3 on I long camp9ipn
 which was marked by several ei,at
 victories for the German arms and in i the end resulted in the driving ef tAe ! Ra9sians h1ck across thH frontier Ja the Balkans. too suceess crowned his work as commander of the Auetri9u
 German and Bulgarian forces aglinat the allies.
 But llNdenhurg has had his r'yers icS to His drive at Warsaw failed of
 it's immediate object, nor have his achievements in directing the cnm- paipu on the Western front been such as to give additional lustre Co his mill- tary reputation.
 But f he aeeomphsheS nothing else lin the war llndcnburg's name will live in history as that of the man who sav- od East Prussia t0 Germany, when the loss Of lt would have meant the es- tahhshmcnt of a Russian army on tho