2 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 1
General Ludendorff, First Quartermaster-General to Field- Marshal von Hindenburg and
the real ruler of Germany for the past two years, was dismissed on Sunday last by the Emperor. His successor, it is said, will be General Groner or General von Lossberg, who acted as Chief of Staff to General Sixt von Armin in Flanders. General Ludendorff is being attacked in the German Press for his interference in politics, but it does not appear that he did more than carry on the tradition of the Prussian General Staff, which has always been the master of Germany. He has been made a scapegoat, partly because his great offensive in the West has proved a disastrous failure, partly in the hope of persuading credulous foreigners that the General Staff no longer counts in German politics, which is the exact reverse of the truth.
