Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1914 — IGNORES KAISER; SAVES ARMY [ARTICLE]

IGNORES KAISER; SAVES ARMY

Ruler Reported to Have Advised Suicide for General Who Disobeyed His Order*. Paris.—The entire German left wing would have been annihilated during the battle of the .Marne if General von Hausen had not disregarded the kaiser’s orders, declares the Warsaw Gazette in confidential reports from Berlin. When the battle was going against the Germans the kaiser commanded the left to continue the advance, but Von Hausen, realizing hia flank was strongly menaced, refused to obey. , When the news reached the kaiser of the Prussian guards* Retreat from Vitry-le-Francois he said bitterly: "Is General von Hausen still alive? A Samurai would have committed suicide."