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Show GERMANY PLANS MASTER STROKE AGAINST ALLIES Morning Papers Give First News of Retreat in France Von Hindenburg to Crush Entente Forces With Full Swoop at Opportune Time. BERLIN'. Monday, March 19, via 7,ondon, March 20, 11:50 a. ru. The; morning newspapers toda gae the German public its flist news of the bgi events on the front in France. All publish articles by military experts ex-I ex-I plaining the movement as part of the strategical plan of the general staff for a decision on the western front' and a master stroke to vitiate the! preparations of the Entente for an offensive, of-fensive, gaining a decided advantage to the Germans. These writers are unanimous in expressing the fullest confidence in Field Marshal von Hin denburg. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung Bays: A Strategic Retreat. "This is not the first strategic retreat re-treat Von Hindenburg has executed in this war. It is necessary only to remember re-member his. great retreat from before, Warsaw and the partial evacuation ofj Transylvania. Thus far these retreats! of Von Hindenburg hae always borne fruit a hundredfold, so that we ma face the new measure of our highest military command with well founded confidence and the fullest assurance that it furnishes the preliminary to new German successes." The Morgenpost says: "The German people can and mut hae the fullest confidence in their leaders, especially Von Hindenburg and his able counsellor and assistant, Von Ludendorff. Developments may be awaited with calm confidence " Von Hindenburg Great Leader. The Vossiche Zeitung says: "We must not forget that the samei Von Hindenburg who began the Transylvania Tran-sylvania campaign with a retreat and I who in 1914 evacuated a conquered' strip of Poland to strike the Russians like a bolt of lightning now stands master of the battels on the western front." |