The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1919, Page 10

Tontinued From Page * One Ireland. Mm other r Shrank from seen by his sp Of the armistice of Whether England would suffer or not —to America to fetch the new forma tons. What did we do? Tt is good to draw that the lessons of the war may later shipping — regardless Did we give all? comparisons, 80 be taken to heart by th erman peo ple. Only the greatest energy is an: Rood in war AND ONCE AGAIN BROUGHT SUCCESS For the sake of victory. F @nd the United States violated feutral European countries by Mifical and economic pressure, a Fequisitioned their tonnage in ord 26 reduce the strain on their own In the long run the submarine war had proved unpleasantly effective, after all, and produced a severe transport crisis on land and sea. Tm April the German submartr Were 50 successful that Engla feelad have been ruined in nine Months if the sinking had contin. Mt the same rate. This was the d Fation made by an English states ‘@Ban in the house of commons in No Wember, 1918. England utilized the shipping Maken from neutrals, and whatever @ise it could make available, for bringing over the American masses. erammed tight in the transports, to France. The men carried only their "Personal equipment. What they need @@ in Europe they were given by Bngiand and France, but also by the Neutral countries, especially Spain ‘The whole operation was a tour de force, uncommonly effective for time. Had the war lasted Msger a reaction must have fol “According to the New York World of May 8, 1918, the president of the PRonnage committee of the United | States Chamber of Commerce, Ed: Ward A.-Filene, holds the ‘@pinion: “At the request of the allies, | We are now sending’ men to France im absolutely senseless numbers We are sending them without having tennage to keep them sup- We are literally risking the of our boys on the assumptio s hat America will be able to provide ) the minimum tonnage required for _ their maintenance. | Ruthiessness and energy once ‘again brought success. During the pattle we had com bombarding Paris from near with a gun having a range of miles. This gun was a marvelous its director, Rausenberger. The Ae made a great impres- and so increased the alarm Produced by the great activity dis ‘London, Paris and other cities in th Barat POSITION | Our strategical position were carried admitted that the great at On April 6 tHe seventh & Masterpiece of the firm of Krupp ‘sion on Paris, and on all France. Part of the population left the capt tal, caused by our successes. ‘The same effect was intended to be Played by our airmen. (German air men were busily engaged in bomb Worst campaign of “frightfulness” ‘the war had seen) ‘The operations designed to broaden the front of our attack and improve @ut at the end of March and early in April. (In the previous article Lu dendorft tack in March had left the Germans @ “not favorable” position.) tacked on the left bank of the Oise following , Product of technical skill and science. | | FOR F. | completely army at-|This, added to the fact that It struck from Chauny and La } In the di rection of Cou Ville, and al arther It pushed the French back a Oise Aisne canal, an > ave mi t the long The army had already at tack the last days of March in the of Arras, making its princ ort on the north bank of Arpe. It was to capture the de- ¢ heights east and north of Arras; the next day the sixth army was to prolong the attack from about Lens and carry the high ground in area. I attached the greatest to both these attacks, Te high ground in our posses 1 to be decisive in any fighting in the plain of the Lys. In spite of et joying = extraon masses of artillery and ammul the attack of the 17th army on both banks of the Scarpe was « failure; it fought under hat mportan have the sion was bow an t of Cambra ar of the thward, It was Byng’s army with ita failure forced Ludendorff to chan. 1 led to of the the creat which Ludendor called “a situa y no means favarable.”) the 12th division, under Gen Lequis, made good p south of stream; but this was not enough to influence the whole operation. Ap parently the artillery had not been| suMiciently effective. | STRIKES FOR THE CHANNEL General headquarters now aban-| doned the attack by the south wing of the sixth army. It decided to strike tn the plain of the Lys be tween Armentieres and La Bassee, as haq b proposed by Crown Prince for the main oper tive of this opera tion Lu xplained in previous extracts, was the capture of the chan nel ports, down to Calais) The en dry, and the Eng reduced thelr num- in the plain of the Lys, as well bers as in front of Ypres. The attack was remarkably fully planned by the sixth army Gen. von Quest and his chief of staff, Lieut. Col, Lentz, were untiring, and had arranged everything the same manner as had been done for March 1. In ep of having but few men available for Work, everything had progressed so well that the attack 4 be arranged to begin on April I was glad of this. The sooner it could take place, the more likely it was to surprise the Portuguese in the plain of the Lys. e I myself visited the 55th corps headquarters in the elxth army as late as April 7, and recelved the tm-| pression that we could keep to the| time proposed. In order to go over| all the preliminary artillery work Col. Bruchmuller had been sent to the sixth army As early as July, 1917, he had ar ranged the employment of the ar tillery in the break thru tn East Ga lee nd at the time of the attack in Mageh he was artillery general at the 18th army headquarters. (This was the army that broke thru when the others failed.) Hig great know! edge and capacity, his devotion to his profession and his army, and his mii- itary enthusiasm marked him out as one of the most prominent soldiers of this war. His suggestions had a ready formed the groundwork for the employment of the artillery on March 1 ONE REASON ILURE The artillery of the 18th army was imbued with his spirit care the weakest point in the enemy's METROPOLITAN 2) TN ling AND. THE WORLD 10 A WHIRL OF WHIRLING WHIRLWIND DANCERS HunDiplomacyFailed Says Von Ludendorft to the at army, The 17th had the astre ntributed greatly n of t in front of hich was lack another in influence of persor » of events war generally, al headq not only kon with the but also with th of the men who were striving same object with the same devoti Col. Bruchmuller inspe cour in an that all was in order. ahead very well. The came This was a different birthday one I had passed the year before, the day of the heavy defeat at Arra His majesty listened to the report on the military situation at Avesnes and stayed to lunch, He remembered r and also my t a fow word and pr of himself by Bets: ons wtat TANKS A HINDRANC KE nt ron In the afternoon the to progress mor why 1 soft in pla diMeult to bridge t system. The ¢ it very trench bk detachment roads was not fave to that our attack, and the tanks we had employed had proved a hindrance. It took a long time get up guns and ammunition country was clow y's machin infantry con In the event toward Armentieres, the ene Lys and were approaching the Lawe hune we made at Given held up In the direction of little progress. On th chy and Festubert, we The result was not sat April 10 the attack but it only gained sufficient grou toward Armentieres and acro Lys immedi. Toward Ei trate far enoug the Lys position; left, wer factor ntint above aid we but toward the al not k fant also our progress was but slight The enem ued to gi ble; it should them more vii staft rt prously 1 me who had b went up. looking fer food. The divisions fi were not same sen into action attack divisions ne as the on March 21. But other battlefields the trench divisions did as good work as the so-called tack divisions, FRENCH DIVISIONS BALK HIM Toward Bailleul the rate of advance or at | | On April 11 we took Armentieres. | was better; Merville also fell. The | day before the left wing of the fourth | the year before. | The obs of the further attack by the fourth and sixth armies of the high ground which bounds the Lys valley on the north. Unfortu nately, we had been unable to hold on to it In the autumn of 1914. It begins at Mt. Kemmel, which affords a dis tant view to the east and in Cassel. The possession of these| ghts would bring about the evacu a of the Yser position to the th the sixth army began to fall of while the fourth gradually captured more and ‘more ground. The capture of Mt. Kemmel on the 25th marked the climax of the fighting. More and army had started, and retaken Mow sines, which had been lost on June 7 Crown Prince Rupprecht’s group was After April 12 the driving force of off, ore French divisions front of the fourth army. tacks promised no success. As arrived Further the attack Mt on STARTING SUNDAY NIGHT FOR THE WEEK Mats. 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Bailleul ‘atl also fallen into our hands, but fur ther south the sixth army had made no more prokress JUST A MENTION or roclt The results of the battle of March 1 had caused Gen, Foch to be “If the United States de not ointed commander-in-chief of th stand side by side with England, tente. In order to hold up the fir Armenia is doomed.” wag the state great penetration the English ment of Dr, Milton 8, Littlefield Fri ves w in front of | (ay afternoon, before a group of rep ir 17th iliiadls Sk resentatives club women of ttle. French divisions from the Aisne-|D'- Littlefield declared that Great Verdun front opposed the 18th army h and the United Btates alone The attacks by the fourth and sixth the Ne ur East in order. armies caused Gen, Foch to mo ceed hese ebb Aspe ita reneivam eiaik tuthak tn ise paeihs n centuries do not equal the His attempts to recapture Mt. Kem ms of Armenia during the mel were unsuccessful. In w the ears,” enld “e a haga id, ; rom a sur enemy's strength, g eadquar site ible. ctadied 6 ¥ vey of relief and reconstruction wor! ‘An in the caso whenever the front|“# & Member of the party sent ou becomes rigid during the actual prog. | PY tt Pass Gers ous - |rems of fighting, the situation of the |" Beas ye fourth and sixth armies was diff Mors. Vast ae see ; have been tortured to death, 200,000 cult. The same care was bestowed on | )2Ve lt Nicene gaia strengthening the front lines, com.|h@ve been starved | to : more than 500,000 destitute orphans ng communications with the| More than 500.000 destitute orphans rear, withdrawal into’ rest of ait| (re Scattered . saat Lath ara egiea Bef aa perfect’ “America is not safe with such a FT done a te en ee ae pat| sore spot aa Armenia on the globe : A strong hand in needed to give the Ue between Crotselles and La Fere Armenians a chance to protect them By the end of April the offensive| Views, ‘They are a. eelf-respectin begun on March 21 had come to an iy tees i is people and will prove themselves if America will take their mandatory for five years, or not more than a generation.” end, Local attempts at improving our positions and counter-attacks by ny prolonged the fighting Into The main centers were Mt the ene May. : . Dr. Littlefield ts secretary of the Kemmel and Bailleul, Albert, and the | Congregational Education society, country south of the Somme as far | anq was a member of a party of 18 as the Luce who studied the political situation We had achieved great su ind the great need of relief in the that we must not allow later events | Near ast to make ua forget. We had defeated " " the English army. Only a few Brit h divisions were still Intact. Of the {Great Britain by Mutehi ) English divisions 63 had engaged, | Mesere Belk and Harte 5 of them several times. The French it Trev ite 4 had obliged to engage nearly half their divisions. 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