The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-02

Tardieu reveals all that went on at the allied conference. He tells how reluctant the British were to pass over the command of theft armies. He tells how Per shing stood solidly with the French.
 Tardieu tells what the Kaiser said when he kne~ his high com mand had collapsed. This is the hrst time the story of this col lapse has ever been told
 Tardieu reveals in his opening chapters the most graphic and comprehensive story of German aggression leading up to the war that ever has been told It give tho most Illuminating background of allN that happened.
 Tardieu is the best equipped man to tell the inside story of the war.
 During the early days he fought in the trenches as cap- tain in the French army. He rose to be Premier Clemenceau's right hand man during the closing months of the war and all all through the peace conference.
 "He was the one nearly indls- pensable man at the peace oonfer- ence," declared Col. D. M. House. This was because Tardieu knew all that had taken place during the war and what had precer- ed it.
 For year and a half during the war Tardieu was French high af atf4t t1at . e T..FA States, heading a large mission.
 As commissioner, as membef of the French cabinet and as peace delegate of the French republic, Tardieu was one of the very few men who knew every detail of what was going on at the most thrilling hours of world history.
 Tardieu was at once a witness and an actor in the great drama of war and peace.
 Tardieu tells some secrets of the peace conference, for he was always behind the closed doors. He tells the impr essions Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau made upon him. But his narra- tive Is almost wholly touched with the tang of the battlefield and the excitement of the fate full high military conferences whose proceedings are revealed for the first time by him.
 Tardieu's secrets as to what was going on behind the Allied and German lines at the time of the armistice proceedings have a thrill in every paragraph. When Foch was given supreme com mand, Clemenceau turned to him:
 Well. General. so you have got your paper now?'
 General Foch, laughing back. says:
 "Yes. and fine time to give 1t to me-"
 q want you to go the whole hog" said the Tiger. And Foch did!
 The tale from the German side of the last few months of the war is enthralling.
 In July, 1918. the Kaiser sent word to Ludendorff:
 ''In the present offensive are you certain to defeat the enemy completely and decisively?"
 MY dHSWtT tO yOuI uutSllOH Is an unqualified Yes" said Lu- dendorff.
 On August IS, the Kaiser ar rived at German headquarters. Ludendorff again was ask ed what he thought This was hls re- ply:
 Tn July I told you I was cer- tain by the present offensive of breaking the enemy's will to fight and forcing them to make peace. Now I am no longer cer- tain" Then he said: We must confine ourselves to defensive strategy"
 The Kaiser gives his opinion. 1t is ''to watch for a favorable moment for coming to terms with the enemy"
 From that moment on the mar rative runs with thrilling speed. October German headquarters is in a panic.
 My Impression is that every one here has lost his self-con- trol." remarked Baron von Grunau of the general staff.
 LudendorG meantime was de-