Word: hinderburg
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...funeral frock coats and stiff choker collars, Reichstag deputies joined President Paul von Hinderburg last week in a memorial service for Germany's War dead. Of the 2,000,000 Germans who were killed during the War, only 200,000 or 10% lie buried in German soil...
...affairs of state were not so important and urgent that the Deputies did not throng to the ceremony of unveiling marble busts of Germany's first two Presidents: Friedrich Ebert (died in office, Feb. 28, 1925) and Generalfeld-marschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von Hinderburg...
Retreating from their advanced positions against the Hinderburg line the allied armies are now standing at bay on the very ground upon which they resisted the invaders for twenty months preceding the Somme drive. The Germans have reconquered a battle-scarred desert at frightful cost only to find themselves still face to face with unbeaten armies which have been reinforced during the week with reserves drawn from all parts of France and the British Isles...
...previous years the offensive might have ended where it now stands. But the German populace demands more than an advance--it demands the destruction of the allied resistance and the capture of Paris. Hinderburg must push the assault, backed with decreasing artillery support and supplied over more and more tenuous lines of transport service. In this he is likely to over-reach himself, and when he does we can count on the strategist Foch, who commands the reserves, to counter-attack relentlessly. The rout into which a demoralized victory can be transformed is well illustrated by the slaughter of Russians...
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