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Show THOUSANDS WRITE TO THEGENERAL; Field Marshal Von Hinden-j burg's Unsolicited Daily Correspondence Cor-respondence Is Immense. LEADER ANSWERS MANY Conscientious Old Army Man Writes in Long Hand Replies Re-plies to Women and Children. Headquarters German Armies of the it .iin .(Correspondence of the Associated Press).- Field Marshal Von Hindenburg receives a letter earh week from a Munich physlcitn containing con-taining exhaustive pinna for the campaign cam-paign and maintaining that he cannot can-not be responsible for what will happen hap-pen unless his suggestions nre fol lowed i be physician is the most regular reg-ular of Yon Hindenburg's volunteer aides and councilors, His weekly letter have come to be looked i'or with Interest and expectation lnt there are thousands of others who feel called upon to help out the field marshal with advice. A featim of many of these plans Is suggested that a dam be thrown across the Vistula river at Thorn where the river enters Germany after aft-er making a great bend through Poland, Po-land, in order to flood the country nnd force the Russians to retreat Immcnae Correspondence. Von Hindenburg's unsolicited correspondence corre-spondence iB immense, two clothes baskets full of letters and telegrams dally, Of these, naturally, comparatively compara-tively few reach the field marshal and his aides have io be cautious in submitting sub-mitting even these to him, for the conscientious con-scientious old army leader cannot be restrained from answering in extettSQ and in his own hand many a letter whicli appeals to him. Letters from old women and school children appeal ap-peal to him particularly and frequent quarter hours which the field marshal mar-shal needs for his military duties are devoted to the answer to some naive request or congratulations from a schoolboy or the mother of one of hlsj soldiers. The same consideration which j leads the field marshal to write answers an-swers in long hand to letters shown lo him is exhibited in his treatment of deputations and other isitors A torchlight procession of students Is to pass some evening before the headquarters' head-quarters' windows. Ills adjutant suggests sug-gests a simple appearance on the balcony bal-cony to acknowledge the honor but the field marshal declares that as the paraders have gone to so much trouble, the least that he can do is to say a few words and a half hour is devoted to the working out of tho concept of a little greeting and acknowledgment. ac-knowledgment. Von Hindenburg speaks well for a soldier and his short discourses are usually "meaty" with well chosen, carefully phrased ideas |
