The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1919, Page 7

FR“DERIC & HELSO “ * Continued From Page| One | ® THE SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1919. |them, and then large number of demonstrated to a tor offlcers, tr most of the army command haste. T could not act according to °'" &n many corps commanders, Ty my wishes and hopes, but must sim. “!l") Way recente wa ply deal with the facts as they actu. THCKY Placed within the FIFTH ,jVENUE AND PINE STR ally were, It was obvio ah] Whole army necessary loss of time was avoided. LONG SHOTS Dt the discussions with th ARASS FOES group of the German crown prince | All armicn wer ally Instructed and the 18th, seventh and first ar | to devote particular care to men and mies, the following operations were | sin rest. Troops in the line : decided upon, and thelr feasibility | Could, of course, not be spared as I a tablished ould have wished, Those in the Attack by the seventh and/ new positions had a hard ume; but « from the line Anixy|the enemy was no better off, altho at of Laon) uth of Berry-|!n many places, particularly as re wusBac, in t on of Solssons | ards dur troops on the old Somme Miames he battlefield, his billets were better Becond longation of the at. | than ¢ That was unavoidable tacks, to the right across the Allette| But we tried to make up for it by toward the Olse, and to the left as|bombarding many places with long ‘ far ax Rheims range guns and bombing q Third—Attack by the 18th army In addition to improvements tn dis q west of the Oise, with its principal cipline, much attention was pald to 4 * € t toward Complegne. vigorous training in rear of the 4 PLAN WAS TO whole army, and in many parts of | WEAKEN FOES the actual front A simultaneous attack on so broad} The equipment of the troops was : a front was impossible, as a part of | ‘ Each infantry company © artillery employed in the,attack hitherto had four Nght n Maret had to remain for de.|™achine guns, now recet u fifth, fense with the group of Crown|*# Well as improved rifle grenades I Rupprecht hine guns were 1 to supply How far the attack would take us ins and transport, as a prote could not be foretold, 1 hoped it‘ against aircraft, and the equip would lead to such an exp ure of ment of the artillery with them was force on the part of th as | stadually completed would enable us to resume the attack, The first anti-tank rifles came tn; on Flanders. they were effective, but unfortu The group of Crown Prince Rup. Pately very heavy, and took two men | pm cht was to remain pw hy on the altho it was for a re also to make al attack in by way of a feint front. It was to be n the coming perto- ad suf visions, which become red d in the e in March and April, would amd increase again by « The Ohio Range |=i2 22 wounded, and by the arrival of some Should the enemy be obliged to om const force the Helps to Make the Kitchen the Abode Jerable against of Cleanliness and Comfort Wituan's asombnnuer vote cheers . . n Flanders would be the proper op THE old bugbear of Stovepipe Cleaning days |} Caucn renee is removed by still another improvement | enh one Sak nites ee to this highly efficient range—that of fitting |] tenaea to attack, preparations were the petty a behind the warming closet, in- | boghe beawacadl stead of through it. |] STAY BEHIND Another new touch that will appeal to the careful housekeeper is the white porcelain I hoped that the sense of duty and determination of the army were # strong enough to overcome the nw per need non-¢ mi ned ern We had renehed such » piteh that before an action units detailed a re serve of leaders, who did not take part in the fighting, in order that there might be some leaders left at the end of it. (German prisoners at that time complained that their of cers remained behind tn attacks.) It was necessary to instruct the troops according to tactical lessons gained in the latest Aghting. These were, more extended formations for " offi same time. 7—OTHER MARKS OF EFFICIENCY The drop warming closet in one or two com- partments. The hot blast system in the firebox, the device by which warm air is supplied to the fire. The ventilated oven, whereby steam is released and baking facilitated. trimmings identifying the latest “OHIO” merous adverse influences. The loss Not to be ignored is the advantage of stove || was bound to make matters worse | construction which will permit the burning of |] fered trom their natural defects.” Tt either coal or wood, or both types of fuel at the |[/ w=» much the same ax regards ex | | | infantry, greater importance to be at tached to the “soft-spot" (known to the allies an “filt = Just eight minutes after the fire is kindled the oven Slcaets beg ino yore tigger’ is ready for baking; within fifteen minutes abundant companion arms, and between infan try and artillery ‘The 28th divixion and detachments of the third Jager battalion, troops that had had a particularly thoro tac- tical training, were moved to the neighborhood of Avesnes. The detalle were discussed and practiced with hot water for bathing is flowing in the tanks The “OHIO” COAL RANGE is shown in four sizes: 16, 18, 20 and 22-inch ovens. Still larger models feature the Gas Range combinations. and Coal to work th So that meant the loss of one rifleman, | one were sufficient ® men’s rat but very Inferior to those of the enemy turned out to be fa vorable; the horwes found enough ¢ at and gained strength, but there was not much corn, Health had #o far been good. The firxt « ' uenza appeared, but the m cors classified them as slight, In the of May middle we com menced to concentrate the troops who ch were to min des 1 rk was cor break men le thru over t The preliminary dup totimea The| ery was brought Into action ac ling to Col, Bruchmutller’s pro ponals, which were also adopted ns regards the preparatory artillery fire (it was Col. Bruchmuller who had or ganized the artillery for the breaks thru at St. Quentin and Armentieres in March and April) BLAMES A MAN GENERAL I frequently visited the army com manders concerned and was most fa vorably imprensed. On May 27 the attack began be | tween Vaw on and Lapigneul Once more it proved a brilliant suc I had thoug 1 on eed in reachi of Solmsons a: nd and third days * had in places been left far be ar we nt the gh bor. By the objec Wo had gained ground, hy beyond Fismes, not so much beyond Sotnsons It wan most regrettable that one headquarters «id not perceive the fa vorable situation at Solssons, and that we did not push ahead with the same energy as at Fismes, altho tt would have ben posuibia Otherwise | our wituation would have been consid- erably better, expect —THE BASEMENT STORE. S. F. SEARCHES FOR KIN |People Packed i in OF MARSHAL JOFFRE| Seattle; Summer | wearch is ae made toaay by the| urs Va: e s Only city health inspectors know lice for Javier Joffre, 18 years old, | who isappeared from hia home at|t® crowded housing conditions. In 2753 Octavia street, Friday aftor-| Seattle, but even they cannot en noon. The boy's mother, Mra. 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Karly in June we stopped our vance, General headquarters intend to attack further ex « tween the Ainne 1 the t of Villers-Cotterets, southw of Sole sons, We wanted to gain more ground to the westward, on account of the railway which leads from the Alsme valley east of the Veale port to th isnona into that of 1 afte tact ack of th al sup h army In mpite of a few unavoldable tem porary our troops remained masters of the situation both in at They proved the rior to both the English and the French, even when their op- ponents were assisted by tanks, At crines | Chateau Thierry Americans who had been « long time in France had bravely attacked our thinty-held fronts; but they were unskillfully led, attacked in dense masses, and failed Here, too, our men felt themselves supertor, (Six German divisior ngth of about 10,000 each faced the portions of American div whieh at Chateau ©. An American livision, inclu .uxillaries, nu bered about 2 men.) 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The group of|thoro prep on ' A 7 cide nna . but on the whole front of the attack | the Gorman crown prince had rained [sueceas and to keep aown canuaition | ECF Loots Room gh It would have been more than doudt-|_ great tactical victory the offen ‘The attack of the 18th army began of Jail Pilecas! fal whether the French would have | .; The enemy had been forced to/on June 9, and was directed on the W. J. Manta, recently discharged or r ECE ‘ hee ay hearymong’ ceonten the Otse | more of his reserves than the | right toward Mery, on the left|/trom the city jail, is sorer tham a| y Sak te Aime any lage t s wo had expended. Paris once| against very strong pos t “aed ‘ “a This was another case when in al iiore received the easion of de-|peen yi pickerel, ed Milk 3 few momenta much might have been | OTe Tecelved the impreasion of de-/nigh ground just west of the Olse.| He made straight for home aA Maited M ved which waa left undone. ‘The| {iat and many inhabitants left the |-rig time the enemy was prepared.| recetving his liberty, and discovered| Por Infants and va commandertnehief site and thinks but our infantry got thru Lis whole | some prowler had entered his room| Aveid imitations and alk prscaaganromtiy all preparations, but eR” DISAPPOINTS | trench system and beyond it, in some | during his absence and robbed him| the execution of his plans is no| UCUDENDORFF | places as far as the Aronde. jot his best electric iron and two lionger tn his hands. On the battle In the session of the chamber earty | F HM SMASH jbooka Menta turned right around since itinaal ms in June, which I awaited with inter-| HIS PLANS and hoofed it back to the city jail, Jent, there appeared, indeed, no access| On the 11th the enemy directed | "Bere he complained loudly and tong, of weakness. Clemenceau's words) very heavy counter attacks, particu | Mee © police promised to lend him| were full of pride and exemplary |jcriy aeanst our right on "| their moral support, and if possible, |strength: “We are now giving ground, | which gained some ground. They|‘® SPprehend the —unprincipled |but we shall never surrender.” “We! continued thruout the 12th and 13th | DUPslar. | |shall be victorious, if the public au-| without result. In consequence of ne thorities are equal to thelr task." “I/the great accumulation of enemy| Almost every man has the mis-| |fight before Paris, T shall fight in| troops, general headquarters directed | taken idea that he is essential to| | Paris, I shall fight behind Paris.”| th» 18th army to stop the attack on| the workings of the universe. of this important gar- || of the well-dressed interesting diversity of Plaid fabrics have been made into modish accordion plaited, wide or narrow plaited styles for street and business wear. 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Price $40.00, 00 to $40.00, Second Floor. lof the Aisne | that of the Vesle | the Aisne, | cult |light railways ‘Remember the fate of Thiers and and thankless task of Thiers.” en after this second great defeat in one year the entente was not yet ready for peace. It was a atrategical disadvantage us that we had been unable to take Rheims and push our armies | further forward in this area into the mountain country. The supply of the | center of the seventh army was thereby restricted to the broad gauge railway which teads from the valley | st of Solssons, into In order to render the traMe with out accidents, the construction of a second curve to connect the two val- leys further to the eastward was or dered. It was not possible to put in| other broad eau ctions south of as the country was so diffi From Laon a br gauge line ran direct to Soissons via Anizy. The tunnel north of the town, between the Alsne and the Allette, had been blown up and had One metre gauge line and sundry led toward the left wing of the seventh army and right | wing of the first, and they afforded | great relief; but they had first to be | extended across the two trench sys | tems before they could be connected | up to those already in our pos | he unfavorable railway communt- | cation threw a great strain on our| mechanical transport, which again to be repaired sion. we had abandoned in March, 1917. It was Intended that the 18th army should attack on June 7 between Montdidier 1 Noyon, the seventh ttack at the same time southwest of Soissons. At a conferen rly in Juno at 18th army headquarters I became convinced that {ts prelimt nary artillery work would not be in time. arrival of the re- artillery from the seventh n delayed was therefore post- ‘This was a draw it thus lost much of its with the great a the Aisn and = the for which a Toecal operation ‘est of Soissons could form no substitute. The enemy would find the transfer of his reserves fa don inforeing y had he attack ito Ju pon back, | | the 11th, Gambetta; I do not long for the diM-| |southwest of Soissoms would not get cilitated, In spite of these objections 1 decided for the later date because in order to avoid casualties, (Counter attacks of the French had thrown back the German advance at {tal places.) It was quite evident that the attack commenced in the meantime by the seventh army thru. 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