OCR Text |
Show Papers Ask Pointed .1 Questions Regarding I Recent Reverses. I TRUTH DEMANDED I Serious Defeat Being 1 Kept From German I Nation. I "" 1 THE HAGUE, Aug. 12 German pa- H pers areaskjng.pointedquji2Jinns,.conj H cernirig reverses in the west. H A Berlin dispatch to the Post of H Munich complains of the attempts of il certain German official circles to con- .H ceal the truth from the people. It says this has done incalculable harm jH and Is largely responsible for the pub- i l lie bitterness. The dispatch adds: H "The same day that General Luden- dorff confessed our strategical plans -'H had failed, Prince Henry of Prussia. H in a speech at Hamburg, said that Tur- H kish attache had just told him he con- : H sidered the battle on the Marne a Ger- H I man victory. The German public may H 'choose between Ludendorff and the H Turkish attache. "It is ridiculous to suppose that the H importance of the events can be con- I IH cealcd ultimately." . H Tho Deutsches Zeitung of Berlin de- NH clarcs: IH "Tho events between the Sommo and IH the Avre constitute the first serious f H defeat of the war." H The newspaper attributes the defeat iH to the weak morale of the troops of !H Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, t H due to the- last reichstag speech of jH former Foreign Secretary von Kuehl- IH ' mann. ;H German Retreat Not Over PARIS, Aug. 12. (Havas Agency) j.H Military commentators in tho Paris 'H newspapers express confidence that jH the Allied advance, while slowed up, .'IH is bound to be continued. 'M "It is certain that the German re- H treat is not over," says L'Hommo Li- H bro, while the Petit Parislen declares that the capture of Lassigny by the IH French is only a question of hours. In fact the entire group of hills b- H I twecn Lassigny and the Oise is being H ! encircled, the Petit Journal declares, H jand must inevitably be evacuated. IH |