HINDENBURG ATTACKED

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 50, 31 March 1930, Page 7

HINDENBURG ATTACKED

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LUDENDORFF ENTERS POLI- ' TICS. A Sensation In Germany..

BERLIN. March 28. Ludendorff has reappeared with aa extraordinary attack on President von Hindenburg, accusing his former comrade in arms of having destroyed that for which he fought as a field marshal by agreeing to the Young plan. Ludendorff declares that Hindenburg bas .forfeited tbe rigbt according to the law of the old arniv to carry his field grey uniforni or take it with him to tlxe graveyard. , "His action conforms with his actions when a field marshal- in war time. It was always the same. I was so overburdene.d with work and consumed by a desire to win a victory with mv armv for the Emneror that I faled to notice Hindenburg . being presented to bis People bv tbe Emperor as something entirely different from the person be really was, It . ' was xiot until 1927 that I gained a elear jnsight into happenings. It was on NovOmber 1. 1918. that I saw Hindenburg in his true liebt." . Lxidendorff aceused IJindeqhurg of inciting ofixcers of the army to hreab* the oath of faalty to the Kaiser and oi advising the Kaiser to flee to Holland. H© declares that Hindenburg was responsible for the revolution and every lixisfortixne tbat has beset Germany since. "History knows what the old army tliinks of actions such as hisJ' 51 Tho newspaners'- are indigxiant and. descx-ibe tlie attack as a dirty stab In tho back. ■ '