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Show j CINCINNATI OF GERMANY In the German army is one general gen-eral who enjoys popularity throughout the empire. He enjoys also the confidence confi-dence and the best good will of men of his own class. He is Paul von Benckendorff und von Hindenburg, general-oberst, commander in chief of all the German forces in East Prussia. Prus-sia. Hindenburg is the German Cincin-natus. Cincin-natus. He was at the plow when the war trumpet sounded on August 1; not literally, perhaps, but figuratively. In 1911 he was retired at the age of sixty-four, and for three years after had lived without military responsibility responsi-bility on his estate in Posen, near where he was born. Then, when the principal German armies were rushing into Belgium toward the plains of France, there came a call to the obscure ob-scure little village where General Hindenburg Hin-denburg lived.- He was ordered to take command of the kaiser's armies appointed to meet the czar's forces. - --A Born in 1847, Hindenburg entered the Third regiment of Foot Guards as & subaltern in 1866. In the war against Austria he commanded a company after the death of the captain, who was his immediate superior. At the battle bat-tle of Koniggratz, with about forty men, he took an Austrian battery. A few days later the emperor conferred on him the Order of the Red Eagle. |