Show VON falkenhayn REAL WAR LORD even kaiser wilhelm awaits the pleasure of his chief of staff BRAINS OF GERMAN ARMY no diplomacy no government or ad ministration influence has ha any weight with th the head a of the Gens raab london erl eric von falkenhayn i la Is the brains ot of the german army T the a in military tary domination of pirus bla 1 wh watch mr air asiu asquith th declared must be wholly and it finally it Y destroyed D baa a it ite seat and eel center or in the to famosa one gen an eral stab which la is quite quit R an axce excel florist dional theocracy ot of war in peace time buys baya ignatius Ign atlue p be re f the ber e tin lin u on t tha koe a near a the austrian embassy I 1 la much like any other war office but the moment mobilization la Is complete and before the oral first go gun ta is or fired sit t the h a real war thinkers hurry hurt out to th the field it end and throw oft off very every vs t fg e ot of civil ll 11 authority hority even it that of t the b I 1 imperial io throne ahrn itself the kaiser la is invited to grand headquarters at in flandera flander or verdun in france when big attacks ire are to be made but the emperor Is a only a visitor he is now all highest highe a in fin name lone alone tor for the real war lord lard la staff eric von imi fa akon hay n chief of staff of the german armies and directing brain of all 11 the othera other from the bal icar kana s to bagdad a d in bagat I 1 it t la bard to 0 convey a an idea of th this 1 man a absolute domination von jagow the foreign minister be baa no a con arol over him nor has baa the imperial chancellor doctor von both bethmann H holl ll 11 govoent weg act no dl diplomacy plow ry no gove governmental ent or administrative il influence fluer flu nr he baa toy any weight whatever with the head of the the military tall tail now dow wags wag the german dog the central empires and their allies are inexorably ruled from the field where chor fal falken I 1 an hayn bud and his bia stall staff carry out the tha war a complete strategic supremacy even popular polar ado idola 1 and ad g great t lead era like von hindenburg and von Mark mackensen ensen that stem ascetic who taught the crown prince in danzig are mere instruments in the chief a hands handa falkenhahn Falken havn la is aa infallible as aa the pope now that the tha arll Is IB broken up and the make believe krieg a plat translated into the epic trena a of f real we war was waa a an army failure von vim falkenhayn to la easily the T youngest grat ot of G germany m a y a m military ali 1 lead ad ers being ba bably I 1 y fl fifty ft y fou four r Y yet t like papa hindenburg he was an army failure and it drifted bather ather aimlessly out aut to china in search of freel freelance fre elance ce 1 in a troubled land hla his homes hance came with the boxer rebellion when his urbane capacity quickly in aliade do b him I 1 in german governor of tien adri after that city was waa stormed by the billed allied troops of amir course with the prussian front co machine mehim bussing bossing all count yon van Vlad W ald demes ersee had supreme command falkenhayn next became president of the provisional government in tien tain and began to attract the kaiser B notice for the first tins done recalled to berlin he was reinstated in that ram hung pit pile on the and wore ore once more or th the broad red trou brou sure sera trip of the tha general atall from that time onward the man never looked back mounting higher and higher in the great machine and at lalit succeeding von moltke as aa chief of stal beaff after that flat general cral a lis disgrace race following on the mama blame retreat k an extraordinary fact ot of fenian falhen hayn a 8 carla caris career his personal ascend only ancy his hib power over the emperor Is a a beurce urco of continual amazement to civilian lie germany our sovereign 1 IB alipit hypnotized sit by this general you wilt will near hear people say and ad certain it ft Is that it the Is kaiser hunts the grand head boad ter tars a with something like nervous fear of the military camarilla with in its humble walls walla his hia law Is supreme before me 1 as I 1 write I 1 Is a german photograph showing th the all highest loathing inn chin 8 al 1 froc fresco with the two ret at cran a max van and ad be remus von a X two ol of falken h liaina ablest generals ba handle it areat met armies t th tho 1 kaiser 1 or standa cloaked asked and ad obviously shivering be aide email it camp table I 1 in an pon open yard ford while a minor I 1 Is figure to ot of the son gen eval era staff loff pram poura a glass of rills rhine wine tor far his imperial matter master one doe ol at the strongest strangest ph chawa ot of the great we war by the we way la is the passing of the kaiser a B pow power or into the iron inon hands hand of the baab to 1 in the field lie he griea gone here ben bud and there at their bidding he walta wait on OB von boYn a plans like ft lost soul md staving tor for wastage falkenhayn s plan 1 Is napoleon B own in the fee face of terrific wastage I 1 took the uon son of a peasant was waa the conquerors vaunt of and made do him a marshal hot or a duke duka when I 1 found he had talents von hindenburg Is a case in point he was the comic halt butt of the tha army during the autumn ma rem behind his back smarter marter and younger generals topped tapped their tore fore heads with derisive meaning hot but von ila bain knew hi his man knew that his b home me was 1 in th the E east out prussian prattle marshes knew that he be had bad made ads this man lefke field aid of invasion vast the study of his ufa life and ad called tied him in hot haste from quiet games ot of lakat abat in hanover will where it I 1 it the when old fellow was on the shelf when th the russians broke into germany |