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NORTH GERMAN'S BAD LEADING

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Berlin, Dec. 6. The war diary of the ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, published by the Mittler. Verlag, Berlin, in three volumes, promises to be a most interesting and in "portant contribution to the history

of the Great War

The 1,500 pages of these bulky volumes are of more particular in- forest to English readers because the ex-Crown Prince, after com-

manding the 8th German Army in Flanders at the beginning of the war, soon became the commander of the group of armies which was opposed to the British and re- mained in this post till Armistice. Day,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929.

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Johannesburg, Dec. 12. Uncasinoza has been aroused among Northern Transvaal sattlers by the news that two herds of cle- phants have crossed the Limpopo River from. Rhodesia and are now wandering in the densely populated farming district sixty miles north- west of Potgieters-rust.

As elephants dislike the scent of man, however, it is considered like. ly that they will shortly double back and recross the river of their own accord before doing much damage.

Elephants have not been seen in this part of the country for over

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though reported from Rhodesia and alsewhere. Ele- phants have lately been showing a disturbing tendency to return to their ancient haunts, from which they were driven by civilisation:

He began his diary on August 9, 1914, and there is hardly a day

The Rance of Pudulta was re- on which he has failed to make some note, until on November 11, cently Involved in a collision be 1918, he says, laconically: "Sign-tween two motor-cars at The Bur- ing of the armistice. I lay down roughs, Hendon, but was not hurt.

my command."

These pages reveal a very able

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and intelligent military comman-war. "For all the services of the der who was no mere cypher lifted | North," he says (observe the to high places by virtue of his Bavarian again), "it cannot be rank. Again and again he shows denied that under its loadership a very clear grasp of the tactical Germany has suffered the severest and strategic problems confront-political catastrophe in its his ing his armies. He often records tory. every phase of the day's fighting "How different it would have in the course of the big battle, been if we had had the right men noting down his hopes and fenra in the right placa. Appreciation and criticism of the progress of of this defect was the sole reason events,

why, in the last years of ponce, I was always in favour of avoiding war" The ex-Crown, Prince was

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Student of the Pross,

THE NEW FRENCH BEMEDY.

THERAPION NË, 1 THERAPION NĚ.2 THERAPION NO.3

As he was first and foremost athus not exactly a pacifist eithori military man it is only natural, that the military events should. occupy the lion's share of the diary. But there is a great deal besides. He is extremely well In- formed ns to opinions and feelings prevailing in the enemies' coun- tries and is a close student of the Presa. Continual quotations occur from English newspapers as, for instance, the extreme shortage of fah in England in October 1916.

Hia pages are singularly free from those temperamental out- breaks which are so characteristic | of the ex-Kaiser, Ludendorff, and athers prominent on the German side. He prefers the brief and caustic remark, such no on March 23, 1918: "The Wilhelm gun ("Big Bertha") began firing on Paris to- day. That will hardly, do much good."

The growing signs of collapse in the autumn of 1918, and the inevit- able' abdication of the Kaiser he records with extreme équanimity. Only on November 10, 1018, does he break out apropros Bolshevist displays among the German troops. in Brussels: "I am unutterably re- pelled. For the first time in my life, but now the more thorough- ly, am I ashamed to be a German. What must the Belgians think of us and how they must despise us."

Prussian Militarism Characteristic of his sense reality is bls note on September 2, 1918: "I learn that a military train in Nuremberg was to be seen with the notice Slaughter cattle for Wilhelm and Sons. Feeling, how. ever, in depressed in North Ger- many us well as in Bavária."

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The ex-Crown Prince frequently reveals the Bavarian avérsión for the North German. In June, 1917, for instance, Mr. Lloyd George had made a speech in Glasgow saying that the war was really against Prussian militarism, and that feeling towards a democratic Germany would be a very different thing. Or this the ex-Crown Prince observes: "Lloyd George's words both are hypocritical and perfidious. That a Prussian milli- tarlum exist and often reveals it- self in extremely undesirable form I am the last to deny," and the Bavarian only slightly softens the indictment when he adds, “but its influence on policy in pance time was greatly over cstimated abroad."

The ex-Crown Prince shows him- self a good deal more moderate than many other Germans in high places during the war. He wel- comes the institution of a Foreign Affairs Committee of the Reich- stag, and wishes, the same could be done in Bayarla. In his wor nims as revealed in a letter of July, 1917, hero published, hò að- vocated the status quo ante.

Bad Leading.

He was strongly opposed to the senseless destruction of villages, which was planned to precede the retreat in February and March, 1917, which would be extremely detrimental to Germany's roputa tion abroad," he says. But It was done in his despite.

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Similarly in a letter in July, 1917, ho very strongly disapproved of the bombing of London, The ex- Crown Prince makes no secret of his opinion that Germany was bad- ly led bath before and during the

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