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Show WHY THE GERMANS FAILED ! STAND General Von Risberg Explains, Ex-plains, Giving Arrival of Americans as One Reason. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 25 General von Risberg addressed the main committee com-mittee of the relchslng on behalf of the minister of war. He explained, according to a telegram from Berlin, that the failure of the German offensive offen-sive on the western front was duo to the failure of tho German army to surprise sur-prise the Entente AJHes and tho necessity ne-cessity of assuming tho defensive on th arrival of the English home army in tho theatre of war; to the employment employ-ment of colored troops and the intervention inter-vention of American divisions. Referring to the Entente Allied attack at-tack on the Marne salient. General von RIsborg said tho withdrawal of the German troops was necessary for strategical reasons and was completely successful. "Thus tho first offensive of the enemy," ene-my," he added, "brought him a tactical tacti-cal success but, considered in tho light of his great strategical aims, it can be regarded as not having succeeded." General von Risberg described the British victory between the Ancro and the Avre rivers as a "great success due to the massed employment of tanks and surprise under the protection of their fire." The withdrawal to the Hindenburg line, the general said, "was due to a lack of well consolidated positions." ' oo ' . |