Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-04-02 | Page 3 | German General who Failed Dies in Retirement

GERMAN GENERAL WHO FAILED DIES IN RETIREMENT COPE NT I A G EN. A prll 1 , via I-ondon. 11 a. m. Dippat'-hes from Berlin announce the death of General Max von Priitwitz. the man to whon; in a way Field Marshal von Tlindenburg owes his rise to fame. The failure of General von Prittwitz to stay the flood of a Russian invasion opened the w ay to the appointment of Yon Hindenburg to rommand the east Prussian army and to tlie brilliant career which the German field marshal inaugurated inaugu-rated with the victory of Tannenberg. Von Hindenburg made Tannenberg not an ordinary battle, but a complete catastrophe catas-trophe for Sasonoff's n rmy. Von Hindenburg Hin-denburg himself incidentally told the As-sooi.i As-sooi.i ted Press that tiie story of t lie swamps into wbMi the Russians at Tannenberg Tan-nenberg were driven and annihilated was a pure legend. Von Prittwitz. ns is the rule with unsuccessful un-successful German commanders, received no further command and lived almost forgotten for-gotten In retirement at a itia in a Berlin Ber-lin suburb. He was born at Bernstadt, Prussian Silesia, in ISIS. i