Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-08
germany IN ALARM.
|DRUMSUP RECRUITS
Hindenburg and Ludendorff
Fighting to Maintain Con-
fidence in Genius.
FAITH IS FAST FAILING
BY RENE FEIBELMAN.

BY RENE FEIBELMAN.
Cablexram to The Sunday Star ana
Chicago Daily News. CoDyFtghts 1913.
AMSTERDAM, Holland, September
German newspapers reaching here
are full Of statements concerning tho
numerical superiority of the entente
armies owing to the American CO.
operation and with reproaches against
the entente's dastardly attempt on
Germany's soul.
Hindenburg and Ludendorn have
| seldom been as generally criticised
\ in Germany as they are now-not
| In the newspapers, as the least critical
remark about the headquarters lead
ers is Immediately punished by tho
| suppression Of the paper and the ar
| rest of the offending writer-but
among the people.
Distrust Is Spreading.
Travellers from Germany tell Of q
I wave Of distrust passing over the
| German labor classes. especially as
! to Hindenburgs tactics. "Retreating
to save German blood" now amounts
L
ualties experienced in the war.
Much uneasiness is felt in German
military circles, I am told, regarding
| the future. Military critics admit that
Hindenburg may yet be compelled to
shorten his front even behind the
Hindenburg line simply to be able
to pounce upon the allies with re-
newed force.
Every German soldier who can be
spared from Russia, Rumania and
Finland Is rushed to the west to fill
/ the terrific gaps brought about by the
French. English and American fire.
Soldiers have been sent back from
Bulgaria, Turkey and Palestine. Many
German home garrisons have been
reduced by two-thirds.
The munition factories have been
shorn Of every worker that could be
spared. Wounded have been rushed
10 the front trenches in their civilian
clothes.
Promises Of money coupled with a
free pardon are made to German de-
serters in neutral countries. Finally
all convicts and former convicts, who
under the German military law are
not allowed to don the kaiser's uni
Aid Of Allies Needed.
Germany will now make a further
attempt to get more Austrians and
also Bulgarians and Turks to fight
the kaiser's battles in the west
Talaat Pasha Of Turkey and Malinon
of Bulgaria have been hurriedly sum-
omned to Berlin. with their war min
listers, to discuss the new man-power
scheme.
Whether the Balkan allies will will
ingly send their men to the massacre
is doubtful. Yet Germany Is decided
not to leave stone unturned in order
to get more men. I understand that
the recruiting agents are operating
secretly in Poland, Finland and Ru-
mania in an effort to find soldiers to
serve for good pay and with the prom
Use of the iron cross.
While this supreme drumming-up
Of men for the HindenburE armies is
taking place the headquarters is issu-
ing statement after statement de-
bouncing the supremacy of the allies
forces and complaining because France
and America are sending colored SOL
diers against civilized Germans.
Figures Made to Lie.
the papers in order to convince the
people at home that If Germany has to
yield territory because of the entente's
extraordinary numbers, against which
Germany is standing alone. nSth I'M
preston conveyed is that. Ludendorn
and Hindenburg are strafning every
nerve to avoid loss of public confidence
in their genius.
That this confidence is seriously inn
paired cannot be denied. The best IL
lustration Of 1t Is the denunciation by
no less a parsonage than Chancellor
Won Hertling against the allies ef-
forts to divide Germany" and to Gre
ate an impossible chasm between the
German people and their present lead
ers.
In the course of interviews and
newspaper articles the chancellor has
again appealed to the people to trust
the leaders, who, as he says, have
been equal to more difficult situa-
lions" in the present war.
The fact that Germany went to
pieces the minute her armies began to
hove back is proved by the wild
stories circulated. For instance: IL was
told all over Germany that Hindeaburg
had committed suicide. Another story
was that entire German armies had
either refused to fight or surrendered
1t is significant that Germany quite
forgot to celebrate either the ami
versary Of the battle of Tanrenberg,
August %. or Of Sedan, September 1,
hitherto considered national fetes.
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