The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-13
Won HINDENBURC
REPORTED DEAD
Death Of German Field Marshal
Told Again in Amster-
dam Dispatch.
QUARRELED WITH KAISER
Violent Interview on May 16 at
Headquarters at Spa Over
Paris Drive.
0UARRELED WITH KAISER
(Associated Press

Amsterdam, July 13. = Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg is dead,
according to the newspaper Nou-
velles. His death is said to have
occurred after a stormy interview
with the German emperor at great
headquarters at Spa.
The emperor and the field mar
shall are declared to have had Sc
rious differences of opinion con
cerning the German offensive to-
ward Paris. The field marshal
died from congestion of the brain.
The violent interview between
Won Hindenburg and Emperor
William occurred on May 10, Les
Nouvelles says. 1t was followed
by an apoleptic stroke which ulti-
mately resulted in the field mar
shal's death.
The newspaper says its infor-
nation was obtained from good
sources in the occupied district of
Belgium"
In the last six months there have
been several rumors OF the death OF
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg and
there have been many reports that he
has been in poor health. A dispatch
received in London Friday from The
oH l,+c
Germany as declaring that report
that the field marshal was i'll and
unable to participate In the work at
army headquarters had spread all over
Germany. German newspapers were
not permitted to mention the rumor.
The traveller added that Cen. Luden-
dorff. the first quarterrnaster- general,
had taken, over the field marshars
duty as chief ofathe general staff.
Keeping step with reports OF the,
field marshal's health have been Dis
patches from Germany indicating
that the field marshal and the. EN-
peror had had disagreements ,s.,eernss
ing the German offensive movement
III WV "eS'' A-dU III may rleld MAR
shall Won Hindenburg was reported
i'll with typhoid fever at Strassburg.
The field marshal on June IS was re-
ported by the Tribu of Geneva to
be suffering from an acute nervous
disease. The newspaper declared
1t had learned from a reliable source
that his mental capacity was much
affected and that he was confined in
n private sanitarium. II added thatf
the field marshal had taken no re-
sponsible part in the offensive on the
western front.
Was In Retirement.
At the outbreak Of the war Field
Won Hindenburg was gen.
eral in retirement. He was caedited
with evolving and carrying out the
against the Russians in
East Prussia. which resulted in the
serious Russian defeat at Tannenburg,
for which he was promoted to field
He continued to command
the German forces on the Russian
front until August 80. 1916, when he
was appointed chief of the general
staff in succession to Gen. Won Falk-
When he became chief of the S
German general staff. Gen. Luden-
10TH, VINO ndQ dCIeQ as MS CHIEF OIL
staff on the Russian front. came with
him as his right-ha man with the
title of, chief quartermaster- general
Field Marshal Paul Peneckendorff
md Won Hindenburg was 70 years old
asst September rs. The newspaper Les
Nouvelles, which reports the death
If the German leader, Is a newspa-
ser in the French language, published
It The Hague.
No Confirmation.
Washington, July 13.-Official Washx
ngton had absolutely no continuation
oday of Reuter- dispatches from Ans
erdam that Field Marshal Won Hin
lenhurg was dead. The state depart-
nent had not heard the report in any
orm and it was pointed out that this
vas one piece of news which would
lave been rushed to Washington by
ur representatives in Holland If they
lad been able to confirm 1t.
The Holland legation had no word
f confirmation and was inclined to bs
keptical.
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