Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1914 — VON MOLTKE IS OUSTED [ARTICLE]

VON MOLTKE IS OUSTED

Kaiser Dismisses Chief of General Staff. Amsterdam Reports Says That General Von Vpights-Rhetz Is Now in Command. Amsterdam, Oct. 6. —The German emperor has dismissed the chief of the general staff. Field Marshal von Moltke, nephew of the famous General von Moltke, and has appointed Maj. Gen. von Voights-Rhetz to that post. The new chief of the general staff is almost unknown in Germany. Information from the other side of the German frontier reveals some of the reported causes of the dismissal of von Moltke, who appears to have conie into collision with his sovereign in regard to several important questions of strategy. Briefly, if the information which reaches here from Berlin be correct, the truth is that the kaiser wished to subordinate sound strategy to an intense desire to attack England, while von Moltke preferred to postpone any especial measures against England, because they would have no effect on the situation at the decisive area of the war. The kab ■•r s order to concentrate the best part of the German army operating in France i.i an at-, tempt to crush the English was not approved by von Moltke, who considered that the strategical necessities of th** position rendered other plans more effective. The kaiser more recently wished to detach a large number of airships and aeroplanes for raids on English towns, but von Moltke pointed out that all available aircraft were urgently needed in the decisive war sphere. The kaiser s feeling against England is shared by his officers, but many of them would not allow their military judgment to be thereby influenced ’