Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-15
FALL IS RESULT
OF HIS AMBITION
Ludendorif Could Not Content
Himself With Ordi-
nary Life.
WAR INDUSTRIES RULED HIM
Vienna Article Reveals Political
Excuses Of Quartermas-
tcr-General.
WAR INDUSTRIES RULED HIM

VIENNA. December 1.-THE most
comprehensive appraisal OF General
Erich i.udcndorn that has yet appeared
n.y.. in The German or Austrian
arpeiier-Zeitunt. translation OF
which follows:
"Ludcndorns fan and the subse-
Huent looscninS Of the censorship grip
markablc facts concerning tho political
activity. or. I" bc more exact, the po-
nue." cNcesacs OF the once ali-power
iNl TuarternI4stel- general Of the Ger
man army.
~, appears that his was tho fate
OF AL men who. inspired by unbridled
munger for power. venture beyond the
held OF activity prescribed for them
INTO spheres which their mind and
praihs do not master. that. indeed he
became the tool of people whose sell
hhn and tricky Intentions he was UNI
an" properly 10 gauge. He Auccumbed
primarily to the Influence represented
gy me war Industries and. as the
Berlincr TaEcblatt 8ptly puts it, he
himself represented views. the far
reaching import OF which ne did not
fathom.
''As the chief representative @, the
ihfuences that used Ludendorn az their
instrument his Immediate co-worker.
General Bartenwerfcr IS mentioned.
and the head OF the Intelligence
bureau. Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai
iiao Is named in this connection. These
,"o men also are doomed TO follow him
q,
"LudeHdorn WAS guided in all his do
lngs by the interests of the Painter
mans, the war industries and the Con-
hervativcs. For more than a wear he
mad directed not only the military bu,
the political affairs Of the German ON
nite and directed them like a die
1T vas he who forced the resiEna-
ton OF -Hollwcg lie did it
ny sending an uitiinatun' TO the Kaiser:
Either the Chancellor goes or CO.
g. hn hrnt
abou; the elimination OF DR. Won
hue himann; 1t is said in this conncc-
ton that the eN.Foreisn Minister in
eating in December. 1917. at "A council
h mieelins pr, presided over BY the Kaiser
n TSe chi ehei ss5ITa ,hn & Belgium
cabinet. Herr Won Vaientini. was an
other OF Ludcndofm's victims. He had
10 SO because he endeavored to keep
Inc Pan German influence away from
the Emperor.
There WAS an exchange OF kilograms
between German army headquarters
ana Admiral Won HintZe. then Foreign
Minister LudendorT prescribed Tor
Won iiirtzc an anneXationist policy in
The RUSSIAN border provinces. lie ad-
vised him TO cause a break In Lithuani.
between the German government and
the Lithuanian parliamentary repre-
seniatlon. with the view TO overcom-
arms
Blu; the immediate cause o: I.Iden-
dorm fali appears to have hecn a
Telegram in which lie asserted that
wilson dcma nded Gcrmany's sapjtuia-
lion, but That the German army indig-
hantly rejected such thing even * II
great storm in the Conservative ana
Pan -German press, and II led 10 the
clash thai eliminated in Ludendorms
overthrow.
The Berlin press does full justice
20 me extraordinary Generalsh;p OF
naGendorn: Ent ms unquesiioned mil
OF his unbounded ambition. The com
nar!son with Napoleon made in various
German journals is justincd in the evil
sense as we'll J4udendorn had the same
unlimited Will: lie was similarly in
s3i!abie in his greed for fame and
glory. AS the Beriiner Tageblatt puts
Whiie German troops. in accord
called upon 20 carry out glorious
campaigns ana win amazing victories
on Italian soil. in the Balkans, far in
Russia, alonS the Baltic. and In Fin
iann, Foch was collecting, in undis-.
turbed calm. his army OF reserve which
in the decisive moment gave Tho en-
icnie the necessary overwhelming SUI
Like Napoieon's troops. so the Ger
man armies marched criss-cros.
through Enrone. pinnine ever new
banners. But in the supcrabundance
of victory and battle their strength
was exhausted and when the fnaa clash
The Pan-GicrmaD Deutsche ,Zeitung
deserves 10 be exposed in i.S naked
shame. No paper ;doiiZcd I.Ldcndorfr
as DID the Denischc Ieitung; mo organ
had pinned such glowing EXPECTATIONS
upon him rs this journal. (which pre-
dicted he would De the twGnticth cen
fury York. On SATURDAY. Ludendorff
resigned, mili.arily .peakIRE-a man 10
whom Germany owed n tremendous
debt OF Gratiiudc though politically "a
failure. ON the following day. sunday,
the DcutSche Ic!tung Kicks him from
It's journalistic doorstep like IA dog be-
We. had hored INIT General In
word OF powers Il did not Mot say IL,
Clear as his mind Mas militarily. he
tated, and therefore, lost
such Is TIE sjatitude OF FAINTER