Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1929, Page 34

DIVDED CONAND NENACED ALES £Foch Tells of Effortsto Unify % Leadership and First | Failures. VETYTEY Commander Bugnet. aide-de-camp_ to the late Marshal Foch from June. 1921, peper Alliance, incorporating the most important parts of “Foch Talks. BY COMMANDANT BUGNET. (Written exclusively for The Star and, the North American Newspaper Alileace.) ‘The war? “1 hat en expecting it for the last 40 years,” Marshal Foch said, “but I ‘was beginning to think that I should end my days without having seen. it.” Suddenly it loomed on the horkon; there was hardly a moment for consid- eration. “The Germans were bent on it; they | would have had it by hook or by crook. | ‘The proof? The Serbian ultimatum: all their conditions were accepted, but despite this they attacked the Serbians.” Time to Be Leader. It was no longer a time for making leaders, but for being one. “No sentiments, no preconceived ideas. First of all, let us look at the | facts.” Russia_was stirring, but was! :slow to move. If the Germans had at-| _tacked first, she would have been tardy | ‘in her preparations. By beginning with “Russia, they caused her to hasten. They :Fushsd into Belgium and extended their ‘front - toward the north. We were iforced to turn cur attention to some- “thing other than the battle of Nancy, +8n obsession on the part of all our ‘military chiefs. ¢ _Accordingly, leaving Nancy, which the | tenemy did not attack, Gen. Foch, act- “ing upon orders from Gen. Castelneau, “entered Jorraine at the head of his +20th Corps. | 7 On August 20 in front of Morhange one of his divisions, the 39th, assaulted ,the heights held by the troops of the ‘Prince of Bavaria. They were held up. ;But no matirr! The next division, the 711th, was on the :pot at full strength, ‘ready to save the situation. But sud- . denly the ordr: to retire came through. s Terpted to Disobey. | + What a rebuff! “If ever I were stempted to disober, it is today,” he frankly confessed to his chief of staff, Ool. Duchesne. The latter replied: “You do not know what is happening to the neigh- boring army corps.” And, indeed, on izthe left the 9th Corps had been held up by enemy forces thrown forward iirom Metz, while on the right the 15th Corps had been driven back and left # the flank of the 20th Corps in the air. {mering. They had their artillery at |Crion and Sionviller, but it was firing [too high. For three days we were at !creased violence. Foch deduced from | of co-ordinating the operations of the eau-Saline. But the roads were blocked by troops in disorder, by supply col-| umns and by magnificent motor cars | from Nice. “On the 21st we had to continue the withdrawal and cross the Seille in order to hold the heights of the Meurthe. I went to Nancy. They wanted to evacu- | ate it. I said: ‘The enemy is two| days from Nancy, and the 29th Corps is there. They won't walk over the 20th without protest.” Besides, the Ger- mans were making for Luneville by way of the gap of Charmes. | “Between the 23d and the 25th I attacked strongly on the Einville-Lune- ville road. We had to stop their ad- vance, and I gave them a good ham-| it hammer “and tongs. They didn't break through.” Joffre Remains Calm. Gen. Joffre, faced by fallure and dis- | order, remained calm. In readiness for the great battle which he contemplated and- which would decide the fate of France, he reorganized the higher com- mand. In front of this new army, composed | as it was of a general staff selected at| random and of worn-out troops, the enemy s specially threatening. Its attacks succeeded and became of in- this: “Since they persist in attacking in such strength, it is evident that| things are going badly with them in | other sectors.” Daring though it was, | his assumption was justified. When, | after two days of incessant fighting, after a desperate resistance, his army was pushed to the verge of the preci- | pice, he clung desperately to the sacred | ground which he was charged to hold. On October 4, 1914, Gen. Foch was appointed deputy to the commander in chief. and was intrusted with the task French Army groups in the north. He | had side by side with him the Englich and Belgian armies. The commander in chief of the former had been instructed by his min- ister, Lord Kitchener, not to place him- selfx under the orders of a French gen- eral. Split Command Almest Tragic. Both during the retreat from Char- | leroi and_just before the Battle of the Marne, this duality of command had imost_led to tragic results. The Bel-} “SKIES ARE e BLUER AND THE BREEZES COOLER" Miss Charlotte Caterson, 5300 Walton Ave., West Philadelphia.—writes: “In ‘Wildwood the skies are bluer and the breezes are cooler, bringing on their wings a promise and ful- fillment of health and strength to the tired body and contentment to the weary mind. Here nature min- isters to our love of the beautiful and the sublime. Where else can we see the splendor and glory of the Creator displayed so wonderfully in His vivid sunsets and the opalescent tints on sea and shore; creating in us a desire for something nobler and higher.” {ou, too, can enjoy this thrill of & lifetime midst ideal surroundings. For booklet and further informa- tion write Bureau of Publicity, Cnam- ber of Commerce, Wildwood, N. J. ! *“He was right. I therefore began to WILDWOOD Oy T SE4 WILDWOOD CREST “Wxtwscy \ THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D.” U. FRIDAY. MAY 14 Yy the King of the Belgians. The gravity of events, the violence of the German attacks. were about to result in a solution which, thanks to the tact, the activity and the energy | of the man who adopted it, proved to | be_an excellent one. During the whole of this battle, Gen. | Foch was the real director of opera- | tions. “I had no right to command: nothing | was put on paper. But I did not need it. I have never exercised such effec- tive command as in 1914, when I was | deputy to Gen. Joffre. I was in com- | mand of the Belgians and Gen. French, | but I gave them no orders ... but nevertheless I gave them some hard tasks.” | On October 21 the Germans threw | themselves madly on Dixmude. which | had been battered with bombs and | The Belgian lines were becom- | ing exhsusted. and, lacking reserves and ammunition. they were on the point of succumbing. | It was necessary to prevent the | retreat, withdrawing first the 39th and | gian army, under the terms of the con- | forcing of the Yser. They telephoned then the 11th to the heights of Cha- | stitution, could be commanded only by | to Gen. Foch, who hastened to the spot and decided the line of resistence. “I said: ‘Hold the railway line.” I did not know the ground, but it was either an embankment or a_cutting. In any case, it was a line which would be well mark- ed on the map, and it might provide some cover. “It was an embankment, and we dug in on one side. Then the floods came, and stopped on the other side.” A few days later, it was the English troops who were in a tight corner. On October 30 the British 1st Corps was attacked so strongly that it was on the point of falling back. “Lord French, at Ypres, said to me: ‘We are all in for it!" ‘We shall see. In the meantime, hammer away: on hammering, and you will get the; 2 sistance was desperate. me to do is to get killed!” “You must not talk of dying. but_of winning!” (Continued on_Thirty-fifth P WHY TOLERATE GRAY hair? 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