The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 29, 1919, Page 7

(Jie #ilse 34 g84i2 abeeeees 738i hide bsec8ba8e RiGGh2is sdoeabed Hos sisal § FREDERIC & NELSON FIFTH AVENUB AND PINE STREET » | Continued From Page One * — onan and un A Kmoke attacked with massed in and a stronger force of tanks had ever J trated in one place 1, low aration he fantry than en or the first time fast tanks, that allow of machine guns above © used corn, Ww our machine guns were hindered by it except when they were mounted on special tripods. Here again the effect of the fire from the tanks was insignificant. (Luden dorff constantly tries to minimize the power of the tanks, He had provided few for his own army.) Tanks were also observed which Were used solely for the transport of men, These passed thru our tines, put down thelr passengers, with ma chine guns behind them, to form ma hine gun nests, and then promptly returned for reinforcement Our infantry had not » 1 points, 1 firm at r the d bie had given widened The gap rapidly enpe clally toward Soimsons, (America troops advanced three to six miles and te k 4,000 prisoners and 30 guns.) Further south there w other deop dents in the line. The three d visions in reserve here, altho fresh and thrown into action pi meal, were able to hold the er er up on the heights southwest of So and to the w t of Parcy-Tigny The Ohio Range On the edge of the Villers ; nereed ™ forest.) Between the Oureq and the ‘ Embodies Many Improvements Marne the attacks were repulsed. The situation north of the Ourea © withdrawal of the troops fighting on the south bank necessary They were closely followed up by the enemy ES’ HE AY made for the Convenience of the Modern Housekeeper 'HE white porcelain trimmings of the new- model Ohio Range are the outward and vis- ible sign of the efficiency and clean-cut fea- tures throughout this Range. For fuel-economy, there is the hot-blast system in the fire-box, supplying warm air to the fire. For better-baking, a ventilated oven, releasing steam. “MENTS n of affairs in the early hours of the afternoon in Avesnes (He was at Prince Rupprecht’s head quarters in Flanders when told of th American-French attack and hurried to his headquarters at consult Marshal Hindent We now had to deal wi counteroffensive by Gen. F against our sharp salient betw Soissons and Rheims, English divi sions were also taking part. The en emy offensive was mainly directed or that was revealed to me Avesnes to the heavy Soissons and southwest of theims 5 . : ‘i . . down the Ardre. Poet ntentic For time-saving, the Ohio oven is ready for | (80 (08 ‘rire | Poche intention ! i the Ardre (southwest of Rheime. where the British were engaged) the baking eight minutes after the fire is kindled. ttack ined, but or a || There are many other features to make the | ssc "ywchen g reas. All counter-m ree that Ohio the homemakers’ greatest aid in com- * * could be adopted were already petent housekeeping. — | At the moment general headquar tere w unable to give any further j help. The fifth infantry division was |belng transported northeast of Sols | sone (from St. Quentin), but as enemy lartillery soon began to shell the rail way stations in that area, the troops were compelled to detrain in the FAfette ‘valiey. ‘Thetr arrival was therefore postponed, which was most | ineonventent RUSHED MEN, NOT SUPPLIES | The 20th infantry division could be lconcentrated at ite destination hy |the evening of the 19th. Only thy infantry could be brought up by le |ries, without any horses or vehicle Everything cise was forced to jmarch, and so the division was com pletely broken up, the infantry being left with no regular supplies. In the use of th divisions this point had always to be borne in mind, The di | visions dispatched by the army of the German crown prince not arrive till later. They, too, rived in lorries. For the rest, we could only await |the further development of the situa tion. The troops on the south bank of the Marne could not be bundled back at a moment's notice. The or. rT to retreat to the north bank on the night of the 20th-2ist of July was not canceled, to avoid confusion. It would not do for the troops to unsettled, For this reason we had to ‘olong Our occupation of the sector t of Chateau Thierry for under —THE BASEMENT STORE. _ FREDERICK» & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET 159 Pairs of Women’s Comfort . Shoes In Newcastle Brown Kidskin Reduced to $9.35 Pair LTHOUGH these Shoes were designed espe- cially to comfortably fit jsiderable time; in fact, until we had the ate ne A stand southwest of Solasons a on the Ardre was a necessary ¢ quence. A crisis lay before us fo the south bank of M | feet with enlarged toe- next few days, and until it was over | joints, they do not saeri- tad Many strategical decisions could fice style for this purpose. Modeled over a good last, with 114-inch walking heel. STILL LOOKED TO FLANDERS The army group of Crown Prince Rupprecht (in Flanders) continued its preparations for attack. It had to arrange to relinquish its certain divisions, but even then an offensive was still possible Available in the follow- ing sizes and width For the time being I shelved my anxiety concerning the 18th and the right wing of the ninth (fon the south flank of the Amiens pock jet) The enemy could not attack everywhere. July 18 was a critical day, passed fairly satisfactorily. In the neighborhood of Solssons the enemy made no appreciable prog a 6 60, 7 9 (914710 so 1s to ve " b w bo a cb ~ tw but it to ~ - tw te nN po) we S) ~ te t |ground, but was unal anything decisive. | American attacks in the south, in |the direction of Chateau-Thierry, broke down, as on the previous day Exceptional values at $9.35 pair. » to achieve —FIRST FLOOR | . Enemy attacks south of the Marne | 120 Pai f between the Marne and the Ardre rs (0) collapsed again and ain. Local fighting took | also On the whole, the situation was much more favorable, Even the rem. nants of the troops who had allowed themaelv to be suprised on the 18th had, generally speaking, recovered land fought well on the 19th | On the 20th the fifth infantry divi sion would be avail | Solasons and the new divisions in line fon the Oured, EXPLAINS > in Champa Women’s and Misses’ Shoes Reduced to $6.35 Pair N underpriced offering of Russia Calf and Brown Calf Shoes with matching cloth tops and wing tips; walking heels of 154-inch height. FOCHS SURPRISE | J inquired {nto the reasons for our 18th Reduced to $6.35 pair. 80 pairs of Women’s Fabrice “Comfy” Slippers re- duced to $1.85 pair. on the The men no v ibility of an attack, A ynal commander | with whom I was acquainted told me | that he had been to the front lines on failure longer be FIRST FLOOR. x |LUDENDORFF TELLS HOW FOCH SURPRISED AND DEFEATED HUNS | the 17th , | without I nent officers, among them Gen.) «iy “ ».| von Lowzberg, to the fighting front, INFERIOR’ to report on the position. The com.| The armies of the entente had also |manders and troops at Soissons were suffered; the battle had cost the en obviously under the impression of |¢™Y 48 much as it had cost us, The army | = a 3 4 6 % ress. Further south, it is true, he $8) 2/)2)2 crossed the Soissons-Hartennes road, | i 2|2)3 21;21/212121,8 ening he was thrown | % 4 4 % ‘ 5 Ts by a mighty mas attack of 2/38/38) 2\)2ypeyeiere oth infantry division, This saved 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1! the situation there, Southwest of Sak LESSOR | sara asanee neal Hartennes the enemy gained more » southwest of |f at TE ee poernoemne oe THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1919. stood firm his and had seen not the slight [a decision, If he nu ont sign of activity on the part of the| merous reserves were in a ponition enemy to hold us up, ax they had done on Aw & matter of fact, the French June 11 and 12 in the direction of troaps only received the or the Complegne attack a few hours before they « General headquartera decided to up, Information which was coming |abandon this defensive. Tho Rup thru to our lines until immediately | preeht army group was to stand on before the battle began no longer) the defensive and to surrender re reached us nerves to rein the 18th, ninth The rapid movement of the numer d weventh armies; this it wan quite ous fast tanks in the highstanding capable of doing. The necessary or leorn increased the effect of the sur: | ders were issued. I had as yet no idea how, if at all, we should be able to recover tha initiative after taking up the Vesle position. The army group of Duke Albrecht was tastructed to submit plans for an attack on its front. General head quarters its instructions | 4s regurds the use of the forward | zone on the front of the seventh and 18th armies, and also for any future retirements this must be added the 1 strength of the divisions. partly of influenza and partly of the monotonous diet. In the sector into which the two weak en put there had been arlier result divisions had bs what of a lull after the ttlem, All these things helped to [heighten the effect of the enemy sur |prine, When it had worn off on the 19th the troops held well suspende The fact that particular divisions) On th there was again an ex |had not yet distributed their artillery tremely vigorous attack, which, on In depth was of the greatest signif. the whole, was successfully repulsed cance Once more they were too in along the whole front During the tent on following up the attack. This next few days there were only local Was very le in ite way, but tac: attacks which failed everywh | tically unsound In their position. of the surprise had been throwing in of re PENNSYLVANIANS ATTACK In the night of the 26th the with | drawal of the front north Marne accomplished to plan and in perfect order. The resu an over-hasty serves WITHDRAWS OVER MARNE was In the | The battle ween the Alane and next few days Gen. Foch made fur the Marne ed unity of com-|ther violent but oy wtul at mand, so the left wing of the ninth | tacks which cost us th “n of some | army, south of the Alxne, was again | small strips of high ground north put under the command of the sev west of Fere en Tardenois. enth According to reports from the At the points of greatest pressure, | troops, the enemy had suffered south of Boissons and southwest of bloody e (The = Pennsylvant al Rheims, we were, on the whole, suc-| troops were engaged here.) Of cessful in repulsing, ow the 20th and very heavy demands were . too, Am had been the vious defensive battles, jet by new divisions was | connary | massed attacks, again employed Zint, strong enemy in which tanks we in large numbers. | The withdrawal of the troops south of the Marne to the northern bank took © during the night of the continually n The evacution of the salient went on steadily, thanks to the splendid organization of the army group of Oth 2ist, and was cted in exem plary ordi ne fact that the French | the German crown prince and of the| had not attacked here on the 20th | firwt and seventh armies, Second rail: | way nid on the line was now completed and| made the work considerably easier. | On the night of the Ist and 2d of | August the front was withd hind the Vesle, where troops In has: | north bank of the Marne, we straight. ‘tly prepared positions were ready | ened our lines between the Ourca and; for the enemy. The enemy followed the Marne and betw the Marne | close on our heels and made a sharp Gnd-the Arére, te 8 im-|attack on the line of the Venle. He provements in our positions was everywhere repulsed. Our de-| On the 22d there was a lull in the |fensive battle of movement between fightir The thrust wasx|the Marne and the Vesie was at an y held up. Th had ter. | end. minated in our favor. General head | The battle was a brilliant achieve quarters was at this time faced with |Ment on the part of the leaders and [men concerned. The shadow cast by | The situation of the seventh army |the events of July 18 had p jin the Marne salient was grave, not |After that day, in spite of the he only on account of the unfavorable |demangs made upon him, the Ger shape of the front, but also because |man soldier had fought well, and felt of the communications, Transport |himeelf a better man than his enemy movement between the Aisne and the |!n some divisions there had certainly Venlo valleys had been rendered un | been Unpleasant revelations. Among safe. The railway curve east of Sois- |other things I subsequently received sons was exposed to the effective fire |4 report which threw a very grave of long range guns. The line in|lght on the spirit of one of these lcourse of construction at high pres-|divisions, I sent it to the seventh sure further to the east wan not yet | army for further inquiry ready and was in any case only «| HIS LOSSES | |makeshift. The other means of com-| VERY HEAVY | munication were uscless for moving | As in every other engagement, the troops lonsen we had suffered since July 15 NEW TROOPS had been very heavy. July 18 and CAME UP TIRED ithe defensive battles arising with it! Reinforcements for the seventh!had in particular been very expen. army had therefore to be detraired | sive, altho we got our wounded back | in the Aisne valley or further north,|and did not any considerable | jand #0 were tired even before they | number of prisoners. reached the front. The necessity for| The losses thru the battle had been continued relief was as obvioun ax it|so heavy that we were compelled to| been in the case of the Flanders |break up about 10 divisions and use nd Somme battles, We had in ad-|their infantry as reserves for others. dition to other supplies to send up| The other arme were, generally immense quantities of ammunition | «peaking, not broken up. Those divi and other war materials. The rail |sions that had been withdrawn from | way communications behind the lines | the battle, and other troops, were dim | could not cope with all this, Motor | tributed behind the whole west front transport and rolling stock that] This was the beginning of a vast] would have made good this deficiency |railwey transport movement. It were not available opened at the end of July, and in-| We ould have continued to be | creased considerably at the beginning very seriously handicapped in ourjof August, and from that time on struggle with an enemy who had the| wards hardly ever diminished, The |be#t imaginable communication at | troops, whe were very much exha his disposal. jed, had to be brought up to establish. | That our strategical position in|ment, rested and given time to recu:| this salient was a critical one went | pe | saying. Every enemy suc] I hy jceas at Soissons or on the Ardre|ctear ic | Would have mont far-reaching conse. |July 15 quences. It would not be possible to|tactics of the entente, they must hold the salient permanently, and a/have been high, and in no way less | new attack on Rheims seemed hope-|heavy than ours. _ CALLS AMERICANS helped rably. Their thruat early 2ist found everything already evacuated Following the awal of the German troops from south to the with re local enem momentous decisions lowe | 4 not succeeded in getting any | a of the enemy's losses since | but, considering the massed |French had sent j|markably lar number of Sen | |leae and Moroccans, and had endeav-| | tieal point of view the forward none |ored to «pare their own people. | [system had not proved a success in| The six American divisions that} these battles involving retreats, for|0ad taken part in the battle had suf fered particularly severely without | the battles of the 18th, and the feed into action a r ing of the troops was everywhere de | scribed aw very difficult. From at its evacuation too easily caused dis: | jorder in the main line of resistance |*#¢hleving any successes immediately behind it One division appears to have been | % : |broken up in order to bring them] DECIDED ON |Up to estattishment, Notwithstand | NEW RETREAT ing the gallantry of the individual ‘The descriptions given to general| American soldier, the inferior quality | headquarters confirmed us in our res: |of the American troops is proved by | the fact that two brave man di-| visions were able to withstand the | main attack made by very superior | American forces for several days; and | en Tardenois-Ville en Tarde these two divisions, the fourth Ersatz With that end in view I was natu-|and the 201st, I had up till then con rally in constant touch with the army | sidered no better than the a |group of the German crown prince| The lowses sustained by the and the seventh army |lish and Italian divisions were also Only a short stand was to be made | heavy on the line indicated. The enemy | | would renew his massed attacks, We|Crown Prince Rupprecht had pre had to make them ve xpensive for | pared for the defensive by relieving /him. We had in view a withdrawal | divisions that had been in position for behind the le of a straight line|a long period by others that had |between Soissons and Rheims in the |been intended for attack, Their bat Jolution, to which we had come on the jeve ning of the w the |troops on the night of the 26th-27th | Yere | of July from the Marne to t ris line. In the meantime the group of beginning of August, but before this |talions w fairly strong, Many dl could ut, th t south | visions had not been in action since} jof the % nd expecially the Vesle| April. 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We thereby accumulated | holding a wide front, had been driven atl 2 ae Hie reat ee Saar |sumed that these operations would rr #, but so did our enemy, who|back on the river 21, and again after that of May Ata -th id. uk Vein ie asda GRA dat could use them for attacks elaewhere.| ‘The attempt to make the nations| The fighting since July 15 had bee y f ated | | ‘The serious weakening of the 18th|of the entente inclined to peace be-|no less costly than had those at-jattacks, for the enemy was also larmy ahd of the right wing of the|fore the arrival of the American re-| tacks, The desire for rest was as) tired, and, on the whole, not less so} means of German | les! ries had fai The energy of | Wh rmy had not sufficed to deal} hav nemy isive blow before the! ninth (east of Amiens) could now no|inforcements by longer be justified, It had to be m by reinforcements, These could | th only be drawn from the army group | the timate now as it had been then, | than ourselves, And attacks did take ether the enemy would let us| place; that they subsequently devel- e it was the question. |oped into a great battle on the whole considered that the enemy might |front was mainly due to the consid. the /erable success gained by the enemy Our rooms are all outside, with plenty of light and air, Call now and get located for the winter. 5 » t a vere on the spo either co ° © |GIVES UP to me that our general situation had|an ever-increasing pressure, or that|have demonstrated that our troops at very reasonable rates. FLANDERS DREAM | thus become very serious lhe might extend it to the area be-|Were no longer what they had been, The offensive in Flanders could not} Ry the beginning of August we|tween the Aisne and the Oise, where, /4nd invited him to continue the bring a rapid and decisive success. | had stopped our attack, and had re-|in expectation of an attack on our! fight 0 e According to all indications, the en-| verted to the defensive on the whole| part, he had got together consider: | omy waa ready for it. If he avoided| front, When t livisions that had able forces, 1 0 thought he might| Let's go buy Boldt's French the attack, as he had done east of|taken part in the last attack had| possibly mi advances between the | tr Uptown, 1414 Sd Ave; down | Main 2567 Seventh and Pike Rheims, we should be unable to force|been rested, we should be able to] Oise and the Somme, perhaps also| town, 913 2d Ave, |