On Sunday last the imposing War Memorial at Tan- nenberg
was dedicated by Field-Marshal President von Hindenburg. We cannot complain of Germany's com- memoration of the complete defeat of the gallant Russian troops which made their violent incursion into East Prussia in order to relieve the terrible position of their allies in the West in 1914. But we greatly regret the use to which the President put the occasion. General Ludendorff was present in spite of protests from the anti-Monarchists. The Chancellor was there and must have felt very uncomfortable as he thought_ of Locarno and of Herr Stresenaann's efforts at Geneva at that moment. The President made a solemn and vigorous repudiation of Germany's Kriegschuld to which she had formally to assent at Versailles. It is lamentable that Germany cannot allow the world to forget about it.
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