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Show BREAKING UP. It ia said that two leading German generals, supposed to be Von Hindenburg Hinden-burg and Ludendorff, will be relieved of tleir commands and new men appointed ap-pointed to the vacant places. Only the other day the dispatches informed tho world that Von Hindenburg had resigned re-signed after a quarrel with, the emperor, em-peror, which grew out of a statement by the general that a retreat of the German Ger-man army on the western front was inevitable. in-evitable. The retreat is now in progress prog-ress and the opinion of Ton Hindenburg , has been vindicated. Ludendorff, who holds the crown prince responsible in part for the recent reverses, is no doubt glad to be relieved from further anxiety anx-iety in connection with the defeated army. "What lack 'the new men will have is a question for the future, but they will not have mueh of a chance to display generalship while the retreat re-treat continues, unless they are more skilled in that kind of warfare than they are in offensive movements. Just now it is difficult to even guess when the fleSing Huns will attempt to make another stand, but it must come soon or the retreat will turn into a rout and Foch will settle the question of peace. The Americans, French and British have been meeting with little opposition opposi-tion in some sectors during the past twenty-four hours. At other points there has been stiff fighting, but always al-ways with the same result, allied victory vic-tory and continued falling back of the invaders. . . -. - In the meantime, there is much talk about the desirability of peace in Berlin, Ber-lin, but so far as- known the military party has no thought of surrendering npon the terms of President Wilson. It is even claimed in some quarters that the emperor did not sanction the note F.ent by Prince Maximilian, tho new imperial im-perial chancellor. This is offset by a statement that the war lord must have given his consent, for he spoke of having hav-ing offered to makepeace in his proclamation procla-mation to the army and navy. So many different statements come ont . of . the neutral countries that it is difficult to separate the chaff from the wheat. The one thing certain is that if the Germans Ger-mans do not accept the Wilson terms, which mean unconditional surrender in plain language, their army will sooner or later bo beaten to a pulp and they, will then have no choice in the matter. |