Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1931, Page 4

i a4 \ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ks O RECHSTAG 5547 | My Experiences in the World War Overwhelming Vote Result of; ‘Absence of Fascists and Nationalists. BY the Associated Press. BERLIN, February 12.—Continued ab- sence of the Fascists and Nationalists from the Reichstag session gave the government, which had only negligible Communist opposftion to consider, an easy time of it today. ‘Three motfons of no confidence in Dr. Julius Curtius, foreign minister, tabled previously by the Nationalist, Communist and Farmers parties, were overwhelmed in favor of the govern- ment. The votes were 255 to 87. There ‘were 29 abstentions. Action on the motions interrupted debate on another motion demanding that Germany seek appointment of an international impartial committee of experts to determine the war guilt. The motion condemned article 231 in the treaty of Versailles, which lays the en- tire guilt at Germany's door. There was no indication when the matter would reach a vote. Considerable interest but little anxi- ety exists in government circles as 10 what the Fascist absentees from the Reichs will do with their time. The threat of a rump parliament at Weimar appeared today to have disappeared with the deputies choosing instead to wage a sompbox campaign in an at- tempt to gain back some of the prestige they are believed to have lost in the last few weeks. OIL HEIRESS TO MARRY POLISH COUNT REPORTER Miss Katherine Silva Cornell’s Ro- mance Began in Rome Year Ago apd Culminates in Tulsa. By the Associated Press. ‘TULSA, Okla., February 12.—Aristoc- racies of blood and oil were united in a marriage here yesterday. Katherine Silva Cornell, 17-year-old ‘Tulsa heiress, was to become the bride of Count Jan Drohojowski, 30, a Pol- ish' newspaper correspondent, through a family ceremony at Christ King Church. He obtained the Jicense Tuesday. ‘The couple first met last year at the home of the count’s mother in Rome. Miss Cornell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman D. Cornell, at the age of 30 will inherit most of the estate of a great-uncle, Robert Oglesby, an ofl op- erator, who died three years ago. Her trust holdings were appraised recently at $3,042,197.91, of which more than $2,000,000 was in the stock of a Texas oil company. Count Drohojowski, political corre- spondent in Berlin, said he formerly was in the Polish diplomatic service at Rome and The Hague. The couple said they planned to visit Baltimore, where Mrs. Cornell is ill in @ hospital, and Washington on their . They will sail for Europe SCHOO:GIRLS’ AUTHOR DIES IN PHILADELPHIA Josephine Chase Used Various Pen Names to Write Numerous Juvenile Series. By the Assoctated Press. decades is Although she wrote the Gi lowe stories under the name of Jessie Graham Flower and many other stories under , her name was Jo- sephine Chase. For many years she lived quietly in & big house in the northern part of the city. “The only time ever know I'm me will be when I die and they write my obifuary,” she ence said. She wrote the Marjorie Deane series, following the little girl as she had in the Harlow: childhood to followed, “The Adventure Boys” under theé name of Ames Thomp- son, and the ‘Patsy Carrol” series and the, “June Allen” books under the name of Grace Gordon. She was the author of many other s, i SN A FOXHALL VILLAGE BODY FAVORS SCHOOL SITE Assoetation on Reeord for Purchase South of Reservoir and West of Foxhall Roads. ‘The Foxhall Village Citizens' Asso- clation went of record last night as favoring purchase of an elementary | school site for that community one sociatio nexpressed dissatisfaction over the location tentatively chosen by the District Engineer Commissioner’s office on the west side of Foxhall road sev- | eral block north of Reservoir road, on the ground that it is entirely removed from the homes it is to serve and would require pupils to cross both Reservoir and Foxall roads, arterial highways. Entertainment was provided last night's meeting of th: association by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. Glee Club. Miss Dorothy Reddish, soprano, was guest soloisf, and Miss Margaret Morgan Hary was accom- panist. | COUNCIL IN HYATTSVILLE GIVES PLACE TO LAWYER | Mayor and Members to Have Legal | Adviser on Hand at Meetings. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 12 — Dr. Hillary T. Willis, mayor of Hyatts- vilie, and members of the common council are deliberative men’ and are determined to do nothing that will get | the town involved in litigation, if they can avoid it In furtherance of this, they have, woted to give Corporation . Counsel Waldo Burnside a chair at the council | table immediately to the right of Ma Willls. The town fathers believe there | will be little chance of them going| wrong with their legal light so near at | band. TAX SALE MONDAY ZLaurel Collector Announces He Will Sell Property Owing Imposts. Special Dispatch to The Star. LAUREL, Mdb. FPebruary 12.—Notice been given by g!“wwn taxes, that he will offer for public sale at the C.ty Hali next Mon- day, beginning at 10 a.m., all property on which town taxes and assessmente for 1930 are unpaid ‘Mr. Orme is at the office of Mayor J. M. “Fetty, 368 Main street, Wednesday Saturday nights, betwcen 7 and 8:30 o'clock for the Lurpou of recelving tazes and water ren! H. B. Orme, collector | BY GEN. JOHN I. PERSHING, Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces. Germans Open Offensive and American Froops Are Offered to Foch for His Disposal. U. S. ENGINEERS HELP BRTFISH IN BATTLE Bullard’s Division Enters Front Nerth of Toul With Four Others Soon Ready to Move in. CHAPTER XXXII HILE Secretary of War Baker and I were at French gen- eral headgquarters at Com- . March 21, 1918, we eard the heavy artillery fire which signalized the beginning of the long-expected German attack, although no definite news had then been received. It will be recalled that the plan of the Supreme War Council, adopted in Pebruary, was to_form a general reserve to be composed 8f 13 French, 10 British and 7 Italian divisions. The British commander in chief contended, how- ever, that in taking over from the French Army the additional front from opposite St. Quentin to Barisis in Jan- uary he had to put in divisions that might otherwise have been available and that he had none left for the gen- eral reserve. The directions regarding the reserves were not carried out and an agreement between Haig and Petain as to mutual support was substituted in its stead. When these facts were made known to the Supreme War Council by the British commander in chief they occa- sioned much surprise. But the lack of divisions on the part of the British was explained to the Supreme War Council March 14 at its meeting in London, and the arrangement was accepted by the council as satisfactory. The agreement was in substance the confirmation of the understanding between them as ex- plained at the military conference in Complegne in January. The time had now come for the ful- fillment of this agreement. German Offensive Begins. March 21 the great German offensive began against the British armies be- tween the Olse and the Scarpe, near the junction of the Prench and British lines, on a front about 50 miles in length, ex- tending from near La Fere to Arras. Near the center of the attack was Gen. Gough’s 5th Army, with the 3d Army under Gen. Byng on its left. The artillery bombardment preced- ing the Infantry advance was of short duration, but of great intensity, with excessive use of gas shells. Following a heavy barrage the German Infantry, using the same tactical methods tha had been so successful at Riga and Caporetto, delivered its blow. The weather favored the enemy as a heavy fog continued intermittently for three days, much to the disadvantage of the se. The overwhelming force of 64 lally trained German divisions out their 192 then on the Western front compelled the British lines to yield. Al- though at the end of the first day the 5th Army had not entirely given away, its losses had reached several thou- sands, and there was no question that the Germans ‘were: & serious at- tempt to separate the British and Prench armies. While there seemed to be every con- fidence before the attack that the lines could hold, full consideration had not been given to the certain use of open warfare by the Germans, in which neither the British nor the French had been sufficiently trained. Adherence by the allies on the West- ern front to trench warfare methods proved advantageous to the Germans. Except for the Verdun affair of 1916, Germany had been on the defensive in the West while coi ing the con- quest of Russia and the Near East. As the of Russia and es] large number of the 1918 offensive in the they gained numerical superiority for the first time since 1914. With this advantage, they ing for open warfare, with the object of forcing their adversaries out of the trenches and beating them in the open. In this sort of warfare the British were seriously handicapped on account | hangs in the balance.” of their long adherence to stabilized warfare. Their officers said that when |extremely dark picture of disaster, and the men had to leave the trenches they |I felt we should do everything possible | 26 between members of the British and acted as though something was radically | GROUP SUITS S50 22 Formerly $45—$40—$35 ALTERATIONS AT COST Sidney West, Inc. West, where | Cost what it may, he must be stopped. promptly began train-| ained by German Offensive Viarchal-Apeil 198, Ground n 2 Shes wrong, in that there was not another trench somewhere for them to get into. British Pushed Back 37 Miles. The last one of Gough's reserves was put in on the second day, yet he re- ceived no support to stop the widening gap in the British front until the fol- lowing day, when one PFrench infantry division and one French dismounted cavalry division arrived. On the 24th four others got into pesition. These divisions and others that came in the next two or three days were put into battle by Gen. Fayolle without regard to the integrity of units or the order of their entry, some of them being very short of ammunition. The British 5th Army was evidently overwhelmed from the start, yet no British reinforcements were sent Gough until the 24th, and then only one division, no others arriving during the first week. By the fifth day the German forces had driven a salient into the British front some 37 miles deep and were threatening the impor- tant railway center of Amiens, the cap- ture of which would probably have made a complete breach between the French and British armies. In view of the agreement for mutual | support, it is not clear why the British and French should not have had a| greater number of reserve divisions within easy reach of the point of junc- | ture. It seemed logical that the enemy should endeavor to separate the two armies by attacking at that point. In | fact, our information for some time| previous_indicated that he intended to do so. In the extension of the British front the French had gained several divisions for their reserves, but when the blow came none of them was near| enough to be of immediate service. The French staff seemed to fear that their front, especially that part near the Swiss frontier, might be the Ger- man _objective, and this might account for the lack of Prench reserves near the | junction of the two armies. Whether the general reserve would have been adequate or not, there is no doubt that the ~substitute agreement for mutual | support did not fully meet the situation. “Fale Hangs in Balance.” In the moment of greatest stress, | when it seemed very doubtful whether the German advance could be stopped, Gen. Petain sent the following order to his_armies: “The enemy has hurled himself upon us in a supreme effort. p “He wants to separate us from the English, 50 as to open the way to Paris. “Hold your ground! Stand firm! Our (American) comrades are arriv- ing. All together you will throw your- selves upon the invader. “The battle is on, Soldiers of the| Marne, of the Yser and of Verdun, I call upon you. The fate of France| The reports from the front gave an to render assistance. It was to offer 1 ALL SALES FINAL 14th & G Sts. GROUP 2 SUITS $29.50 Formerly $65—$60—$55—$50 LOCATION AMERICAN DIVISIONS 3 MARCH 20,1918 Battle lirewmms. Internationa bdfe.ese Numerals indicate Divisions ; circled aumerals thase not in line. 50 100 MILES Gen. Petain such of our troops as could | be used that I went to Compiegne March 25. | general’s customary confident and nonchalant attitude was entirely gone and he wore a very worried ex- pression. I told him that for the mo- | ment I should waive the idea of forming | the I Corps and that any of our, divisions that could be of service were at his disposal, but with the qualifying | remark that of course we should look | forward eventually to their assembly under their own commander. Petain thought that certain of our units might be put into the battle, but he hesitated to give us at once a por- tion of the front that might become active, and preferred to have them sent into quiet sectors to release Prench di- visions, which amounted to the same thing as to numbers in the battle line. ‘We briefly discussed the general sub- ect of handling new units as they should arrive, and finally 1 left with the understanding that American units would be used as circumstances might demand. As the reinforcement of the British was a vital necessity I was will- ing to accept any arrangement that would release French divisions for that purpose, or put our divisions into the battle if thought best. I gave orders at once that our units should be held in readiness for any eventuality. British Losses 150,000, March 24 it developed that the French divisions had received orders that if the enemy continued his drive in the direction of Amiens they were | to fall back o as to cover Paris. Marshal Haig, fearing that this would Tesult in separating the two armies, at once communicated the situation to his government. This brought about an important conference at Doullens March French governments, in which it was decided that some authority should be designated to co-ordinate the action of the two armies, and Gen. Foch was selected. I was not present at the Doullens conference, but upon learning of its ac- tion it seemed essential that Gen. Foch himself should know our desire to do what we could to strengthen the allies. The British loss was then estimated at not less than 150,000. I recall meeting Lord Northcliffe March 24 and found him almost unable to of it, so many of his friends had lost relatives. The depression among their people was probebly worse than at any other period of the war. Among the French there was much anxiety as to the safety of Paris and there was talk of the government having to move to Bordeaux again, as it had done in 1914. The allied lines had not been stabilized, and although I had of- fered our troops to Petain it seemed to me that it might be well to make it emphatic that I was ready to put into battle everything we could muster. I had often thought of the possibility of having to do this, and I went to find out the situation and let Gen. Foch know our attitude. As we entered Gen. Foch’s farm house headquarters, near Clermont-sur-Oise, Clemenceau, Foch, Petain and Loucheur were intently studying a map spread out on the table. The situation was pointed out to me, showing that al- ready the British had used 30 divisions and the French 17, against the Ger- mans’ 78. It seemed to be the opinion that the British 5th Army was getting back on its feet and that the lines would hold for the time being. I intimated that I had come to see Gen. Foch and the others withdrew into the yard, leaving us alone. I told him that the Americans were ready and anxious to do their part in this crisis, 0000000000000 000000000000000000 U |I|iw||HII% > EUGENE C. GOTT, PRESIDENT e THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931 that ¥ was willing to send him any ‘we had and asked for suggestions as to how we help. He was evi- dently very m tou enthusiasm took me by the arm and without Resitation rushed me out across the lawn to where the others stood and anmvhfl!h’uflw hith, Pershing’s French Fluent. They, of course, showed keen interest, Clemen told especiaily M. ceau, as I them what I had said to Gen. Foch. I could not have mustered Tt mbd’onmormamrh papers the a n the ci s next morning, although I feel certain that it was written up in better m.r’n:h"chan I actually used: = “Je viens pour vous dire que le peuple Americain tiendrait a grand honneur que nos troupes fussent engagees dans la present battaille. “Je vous de demande en mon nom et au sien. “Il 0’y & pas en ce moment d’autres questions que de coml 3 “Infanteris, artillerie, aviation, tout e que nous avens est & Vous. “Disposez-en comme il vous plaira. “Il en viendra encore d’autres, aussi nombreux qu’il sera necessaire. “Je suils venu tout expres pour vous dire que le peuple Americain serait fier d'etre engage dans la plus belle battaille de Thistoire.” The English translation follows: “I have come to tell you that the American people would consider it a great honor for our troops to be en- gaged in the present battle. I ask you for this in their name and my own. “At this moment there are no other questions but of fighting. “Infantry, artillery, aviation, all that we have are yours; use them as you wish. More will come, in numbers equal to rxeq;llah'emen'.l. % ve come especially to tell you that the American people will be proud to take part in the greatest battle of history.” If the responsibility had been mine I should not have hesitated a moment to put into the battle any or all of our five divisions in France. The 1st was the only one used for the time being, the others being placed in quiet sectors, each to .relieve ‘two Prench divisions. As our divisions were more than twice as large as theirs, it amounted to al- most immediate- reinforcement of 10 divisions. U. S. Engineers in Combat. At the time of the German attack a battalion of the American 6t .troops were given arms and patticipated with the British forces in the defensive operations until after the lines were stabilized. In carrying out our plans for the or- ganization of an American Army on the Lorraine front, with the reduction of the St. Mihiel salient planned as the initial of m, the volume of con- struction hecessary along our line of communications had been pushed as fast as conditions permitted. The es- tablishment of advance depots and other installations in Lorraine were well under way. On January 16 the 1st Division (Bul- lard) had entered the line north of Toul, with the understanding that other divisions would follow as they be- came sufficiently trained, and that when the four divisions were available an American Army corps would be formed and the sector would pass defi- nitely American control. The 26th Division (Edwards) withdrawn from the Chemin-des-Dames March 21 and the 42d Division (Meno- her) from east of Luneville two days later, and both were prepared to take their places beside the 1st. These were to be followed by the 2d Division (Bundy), then in line for preliminary experience at Sommedieue, south of Verdun, while the 32d Division (Haan), which had only recently arrived, would come in later. The headquarters of the 1st Corps (Liggett), which had been organized at Neufchateau in January, was to move up to Toul as soon as there were three divisions in the line. It could be said that the; most important step in organizing an Ametican Army would then be taken. But just as our hopes were about to be realized the storm broke, the situation on the British front created a grave crisis, and the concen- tration of our troops in an American sector, much to my regret, was volun- tarily and indefinitely postponed. Tomorrow—First Division ordered into line; Clemenceau mentioned as com- mander in chief. (Copyright. 1931, in all countries by the North’ arld gisnts reserved. incly Scandinavian. ‘American Newspaper Alliance % _the production in whole or in part prohib! 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KIWANIS CLUB HEARS INTERNATIONAL HEAD Raymond M. Crossman Tells- 0b- jectives of Group—Delegates Go to Lynchburg. A mental picture of the ideals and Exrpm of Kiwanis clubs was drawn an address by Raymond M. Cross- man of Omaha, Nebr., president of Kiwanis International, at & luncheon of the Washington Kiwanis Club in the Washington Hotel today. The objectives of Kiwanis, Mr. Cross=: man said, “are selected and deslgned to meet ever-recurring human needs and vital concerns of community welfare. ‘The following members of the Wash~ ington Kiwanis Club are listed to attend the midwinter meeting of trustees and conference of officers of the Capital Kiwanis district, in Lynchburg, Va., to- night and tomorro t of the Eugene R. Woodson, local club; Edwin F, : Harry G. Kimball, former District gov- ernor; D. Zirkin, District vocational guidance chairman, and Merritt O, Chance. BRIDGE DANGER PAST Anacostia River Span Reported Safe After Removal of Piles. The Anacostia River Bridge is now safe for passage of yachts, motor boats and other small craft. Maj. Joseph D. Arthur, jr., District engineer for the War Department for the Waghington area, and E. A. Schmitt of the United States Engineer Office an-~ nounced today that the piles under the Anacostia Bridge have now been re- moved by the derrick boat Atlas. In the past, they said, several accidents occurred as the result of small motor boats running on these submerged ob- structions. Navy Radio Expert to Speak. J. W. Wright, Navy Department radio engineer, will speak on “Crystal-Con: trolled Radio Transmitters” at the regular meeunge of the Wi Radio Club, to held Saturday night, at 8 o'clack, at the Department of Commerce Building, Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. WEL COMES$ THE SUN! @ Your wall paper! So lovely when new —so forlorn when faded! Must this always happen? We answer— it need never happen again, if you will but ask your decorator for Union SUN-TRYD Wall Papers. 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