Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-10 | Page 11 | Advised the Kaiser to Shorten Lines

jOVISED THE KAISER 1 10, LIES Advices From ' Germany Tell Why Hindenburg Replaced Falkenhayn. LONDON, Sept. fl, 4:42 . m. "Ac-(vlins "Ac-(vlins to reports irum Ou'riiianv re-.fjril re-.fjril at Berne,'' :,ys a dispatch to .e Wireless Ptcks, ''the dismissal of h-npral Erich von Falkenhayn as chief jf the (lerinan general staff was due o hi? sii22estion of a complete chance j Ormany 's war plan, which Kmpvr-,ir Kmpvr-,ir William indignantly rejected. Predicting the complete downfall y Bulgaria as the result of converging jf.acks from the north and south and ;n the end a consequent interruption ':i ro'imimlii-ations with Turliev, Gen-f-l von Falkenhayn urged that the ,hnle Balkan campaign lie abandoned; v:1t the eastern line he shortened, and l hat the occupied territory in France he evacuated. "The grneral, expressed the opinion that the transformation of German strategy into a purely defensive ,-ain-paign on a shorter front would paralvze the entente allies and make it impos-siiile impos-siiile for them to crush Austro tlermnu resistance unless they fought with unlimited un-limited resources, and then for voars. Persistence in the present, plan of campaign, cam-paign, he said, would lead to disaster. disas-ter. ''Field Marshal von Hindenburg denounced de-nounced this advice as childish, cowardly coward-ly and unworthy of the Germans. Km-peror Km-peror William took Von Hindenburg 's view. ' '