Licking Valley courier., 1918-07-18
HINDENDURG DEAD
after ROW WITH
KAISER, REPORT
Amsterdam Newspaper Says End
h, Came After Hot Fight Over
Paris Campaign.
VICTIM OF BRAIN CONGESTION
Recent Dispatches Asserted Military
Chief Was III and One Declared
He Was in Sanitarium Suf-
fering From Collapse.

NA''h~i NeAAf ohig lDs lNlu
Won Hindenburg Is dead, according to
the newspaper Les Nouvelles His
death Is said TO have occurred after II
stormy interview with the German EN-
peror at great headquarters at Spa.
The emperor and the field marshal are
declared.sto have had serious differ
enees of opinion concerning the Ger
man offensive toward Paris. The field
marshal died from congestion of the
brain. --
The newspaper says the violent in
terview between the kaiser and Won
EIindenburg occurred on May 16. 1t
was followed by Hindenburg suffering
a stroke of apoplexy, which ultimately
resulted in his death. The information,
the paper says, was obtained from good
sources in the occupied districts of
Belgium.
Many Rumors of Illness.
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
Hague quoted Dutch traveller from
Germany as declaring that report
that the field marshal was i'll and un-
able 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 General Luden-
dorff, the first quartermaster general,
had taken over the field marshal's du-
ties as chief of the general staff.
Keeping step with reports Of the
field -narshaLs health have been dis.
patches from Germany indicating that
the field marshal and the emperor had
had disagreements concerning the Ger
man offensive movement in the West.
Late In May Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg was reported Ill with
typhoid fever at Strassburg. The field
marshal on June IS was reported by
the Tribune of Geneva to be suffering
from an acute nervous disease.
Placed In Sanitorium.
The newspaper declared 1t had
learned from reliable source that his
mental capacity was much affected
and that he was confined In a private
sanitorium. 1t added that the field
marshal had taken no responsible part
in the offensive on the western front.
At the outbreak of the war Field
Marshal Won Hlndenburg was Il gen
eral in retirement. He was credited
with evolving and carrying out the
campaign against the Russians In East
Prussia, which resulted in the serious
Russian defeat at Tannenburg, for
which he was promoted to field mar
shal. 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 General Won Falkenhayn.
When he became chief of the general
staff, General Ludendorff, who had act
ed ms his chief of staff on the Russian
front, came with him as his right-hand
man with the title Of chief quarter
master general.
Field Marshal Paul Beneckendorn
und Won Hindenburg was seventy
vaorS old last Spntamhar oS
The newspaper Les Nouvelles, which
reports the death OF the German lead
er, is a newspaper in the French Ian
guage published at The Hague.