Show I I FO FOE GENERALS T PROVE FIASCOS I IN BIG EFFORTS S Long C List of Failures Shown Sho iii in Chrol Chronicles of War Warm m nY wi IIII IMAM I 1 J R Service Staff Correspondent Lon London on Oct 27 Germanys Germany's much- much vaunted militarism has produced along a n along long list of dud generals First t on the tho list comes conies Gen ITel- ITel Helmuth muth von nn 1 chlof f of or st staff rr when the tho day dawned a To him chiefly chiefly chief chief- I ly was attributed the plan ot or campaign campaign cam cam- which involved cd the tho drive through Belgium an and ho lie was particularly certain certain tam tain that by b this method it would woul bo ho possible to seize Paris In Ir six weeks an and then turn round on the c Russians To the thc last he persisted that It was wat necessary necessary to break the tho French line before Verdun and when that effort failed an assumed was yas the means by bv which he lie was removed from rom the thc scene cene Happily Happl for himself ho Is no longer alive to become the victim of ot German resentment Kluck Juel Most Next on tho thio list lIt and perhaps the most disastrous failure of ot all lu is Gen Alexander von on Kluck The Man Ian Who ho Didn't Take Paris Full of or the arrogance arrogance arrogance ar ar- ar- ar of ot his race Old Vun un o'Clock was bud badly bowled out In the early carl days of tho the war lIe He it was who to toward toward toward to- to I ward the thc end of or August t 1914 dispatched dis- dis patched an nn exultant telegram to Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin un to the effect that he had surrounded surrounded sur rounded the tho British army Old Vun Yun was slightly mis taken lie He ought to have havo done it of oC course coLuse seeing that ho lie had hall five corps corp to the British ono one and a halt half and tho the defeat he lie suffered then was to be e followed fol tol- fol- fol lowed b by a rout when car early In September Sop Sep cp- cp General Maunoury fell upon his recklessly exposed flank and stemmed the German tide flow low toward Pa Paris ris Moltke li he lie harbored the delusion de de lusion that that-he could take taka Paris In six sl r weeks And Anil his gullible countrymen had such HUch faith In his boasting that they struck truck a medal to commemorate his triumph The Tho of oC this medal boars bears tho the legend ach Paris ParIa 1914 on the thc obverse Olse side is tho the portrait has hns tho the of or SOld Old Vun o'clock who ho aspect of or a R. man about to burst into tears r I I I S r. r n Ill ll B By the sound drubbing General Allenby Al- Al has given the thc much-lauded much Gen Gen- orul orol Itman von volt Sanders another r German Ocr Ger man 1 dud general has gone sone a gUm m When hen th tho plan for alignment of or the German armies was drawn up it wits Wll decided to tu the lie group commanded by the tho crown prince of or Germany German In Inthe Inthe Inthe the center The Tho Idea Ilea was that that mighty warrior would be bo able ablo to march through to Paris Mis lis- lis tah tahi Rat Hat Face Face as the tho colored American Ameri Ameri- can troops have dubbed him has never retrieved his failure of ot the first months o ot or the war On thc the contrary ho he has added to them to an extent which would have hae other commanders cashiered a dozen Of Ot all the tilo G German failures In command command com coin mand In tho the field that of or tho the crown prince has been tho the most consistent and costly Another royal roal general who wo has had bad some somo had bad defeats Is Rupprecht of or Bavaria Only recently large sections see sec of ot hits his arm army group have ha been re removed ye- ye moved from his command as If In recognItion recognition rec rec- of the fact tact he IB is better suited ulle to go Jo philandering In Luxembourg than for fal ti fighting Fal Falkenhan Ic c n I i a y n C copartner 0 pa i t a e r with ith I th t the lib crown prince In the Verdun disaster Is another proved dud I I I |