The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-01
MARINE DEFEAT PUT
ON CROWN PRINCE
LudendOrff and Hindenburg
Said to Have Urged His
Relief.
KAISER REFUSED TO DO 50
Failure Of Offensive Now Gen.
orally Admitted Despite
Deception in Press.

Copyright. 1918: all r.1hts reserred.
LONDON, July 31.-As the bad news
from the western front gradually begins
to penetrate Germany and Is beginning
to be understood by the population the
depression increases and has become
more pronounced than when It was first
realized that the Crown Princes Of
fens.ve was doomed to failure.
Extraordinary disclosures, apparently
confirming rumors of dissensions at Ger
man headquarters arising out Of the
Crown Princes disastrous attack, are
published in the Essen TopesxcftuHD
The substance Of these Is that at
Crown Prince in attendance. both Gen.
Ludendorff and Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg voiced something almost tanta-
mount to a demand that the Crown
Prince be relieved OF his command, and
that while the Kaiser was compelled to
admit the existence Of come degree OF
justification for the circumstances Of his
military leaders he was compelled. BY
dynastic considerations. to refuse their
suggeStions.
1t Is regarded as extraordinary that
such statements should be permitted to
appear in n German newspaper. however
obscure
In several Of the newspapers the
identical phrases appear in explaining
why the Germans retreated on the
Marine front. and from this IT is be-
lieved that the articles were composed
from written Instructions forwarded to
the journals by the War ONCE or some
one high in authority
Gen. Won Ardenne. the military critic
Of the Berlin TaoebiGtt, again writes
that Gen. Foch. Chief
of the allied armies. has failed to
realize his objectives-the effort to cut
OF Soissons-although he has passed
Chateau-Thierry. Gen. Won Ardenne
says that for this reason there is justi-
fication in speaking of the present
fighting on the Scissors Rheims salient
as q German success
Tie critic adds that II will be diff
fcult for Gen. Foch to attempt an en-
veloping movement owing to the new
form Of the German front and adds
that the territory retaken by the Allies
means little In a war OF big movements
How People Are Deceived.
AMsTERDAM, July 31.-The entire Ger
man press, the Socialist included. is
obediently toeing the line laid down by
the German official reports regarding the
retreat from the Marine. This line sub
stantially is that Gen. Foch's formidable
attack to pinch of the VT ole OF the Ger
mans Maine salient was in vain. that
his great sacrifices In men have been
bootless and that the initiative remains
with the Germans. To this 1t Is added
that the German concentration on a
shortened chord means stronger
front.
To the American official report of the
capture OF Seringes-et-Nesles. Sergy and
Roncheres. the volks Zeitun0 Of Cologne
appc nds II comment:
: these localities are situated in the
zoy.e evacuated by the Germans days
ago. undetected by the enemy"
A typical degree of snttls:y is dis
played by the military critic OF the Ber-
lin POssische Zettung, Capt Won Salz-
mann. who says:
We are now able to prove to Foch in
his own words that he has not gained a
victory. In his book, The Conduct OF
War which he wrote wren teaching
strategy at the St Cyr Military College,
heg showed himself pronounced ad-
hefept OF the theory of the offensive and
the humiliation of the enemy. In put
ting into practice this idea, which Foch
borrowed from Napoleon and to
greater extent still from Won Moltke.
I Is boldly conceived task was to break
through the German lines. roll them
back. and make the whole German sys-
tenn OF defence totter.
There was no middle course for Foch.
Victory in the strictest sense OF the word
was positively imperative in this action.
1t was not his business to gain ground
nor clear the Marine. His business was
to cut through our Assences and get in
our rear. II was win or lose. He lost.
and must start the game afresh"
Gen. Kilbe in Germanid, angrily at
tributes the failure of the German Of
fensive to the fact that the date on
which II was to begin. July Is. seemed
to be public property at home He in
dignantly rebukes the 'irrepre sslble tat
Ting by which news Of military i'm
portance percolates to tine enemy. He
and virtually all the ether critics agree
that further hard fighting Is imminent.