Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-12-13 | Page 2 | Von Falkenhayn is not Liked in Berlin

' ffl FMElffl 15 jp JOT UKEDfl HEM1 ( German Press Disposed to Criticise Change in Lead- l ership of the Army I ) j THE HAGUE Dec 12 n London I 4 i5 p m German newspapers which I have aust been rece ved here show that f I the Gern an press although proh bited I strictly from cr t c s ng any acts of the J government during the war is m ch I d spleased by the sudden change in the " leadersh p of the German military j forces They state that Count von Moltke has been pol tely s de-; de-; tracked as ch ef pf the general staff and that supremo command has been given to a war minister whose be hav or toward the reichstag n the Za bern nc dent was msult ng In the short b ographies of Ma or General von Falkenhayn which the newspapers are perm tted to print they refer in the most guarded way to what Ihey tern h s f a lure up to the present ' time in the operations on the western front . , . Von Falkenhayn was appo nted tern Sorary ch ef of the general staff on 'ctober 25 says the Berl ner Tage blatt He therefore has held the po I s t on since the fall of Antwerp Dur ing this per od have occ rred the bat ties of the Ysei and D xmude In th s serious time therefore von Talkenhayn has been unit ng all the funct ons wh ch t during the war of 1870 were divided between von Moltke and Bgpn It is Intimated in these newspapers I 1 I that there has been fr ct on between I Emperor Will am and Count von Moltke I owing to a difference of op n on con !' cerning the conduct of the eampa gn in j the west t be ng understood that while t on Moltke favored energet c opera ! t ons against the Trench center the . ' emperor was strongly incj ned ton ard i pushing the advance n the direct on of i Cala s As a result of th s conf 1 ct of J opinion it is sa d Count von Moltke retired to take the cure at Hombnrg f being however m actual need of medi cal attent on General von Falkenhayn then con tinned the operat ons in Flanders under (the direct on of the emperor with re ,j eults which are described as not wholly i ! pleasing to the German public An nouncement was made five days ago that General von Falkenhayn would re main at the head of the general staff S but that Count von Moltke m ght be f given another mission It The plan of campaign of Count von i Moltke as or g nally outlined was to advance on Pans as rapidly as possi 3 ble and this led to the pwift move L meat toward the French capital by fl General von Kluk and General von il Hausen in August and September, f which was ended by the forced retreat I to the pos t ons now occupied by the Germans m France It is stated that fnetion between Emperor Will am and Count von Moltke first occurred at this time the emperor taking the ground I that the move tact cally was futile ' After the capture of Antwerp it was Von Moltke s des re according to these reports to concentrate efforts upon the Verdun Toul 1 ne wh le the emperor po nting to the poss bil ty of an en velop ng movement by the allies or a break thro gh the- wedge nhich Von Moltke proposed to advance favored the contmuat on of operations aga nst the forces of the all es in Flanders Th s s the s tuat on, t is now said wh ch f nally led to Von Moltke s trip I to Homburg and the installation of Von Falkenhayn as ch ef of the general staff