The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 30, 1919, Page 4

| | AGE 4 _ — ® not conceal from myself, (le thus Continued From Page One || indicates he would be prepared to es ———% make concessions for peace.) It was in this sense that I discussed matters with my staff, and while still oe pied wiih these thoughts the blow of Ines in the plain of the Lys and the evacuation of the bridgeheads of the much all right ‘put @ had been brought suddenty from the Lens front after a feint had been made the sir.” was the reply.) tensive tse was made of motor lor bit rough.” The Canadians | rica, ) | Retween the Somme and the Luce | ft was a very By the earty hours of the fe August 8 I had alrendy ¢ mplote impression of the sit 1 immedi ed jon DAY rrieMs YANKS GOT ROUGH WITH HUNS —SAYS LUDENDORFF army was thoroly whereas the powers of reuistance of th Sth were in no way Alsorganized mpaired. ~ my one | © lonwes of the second army had Ancre and Avre (northeast and soul | A eass § fell upon mo. the enemy penetrated deep into our| Sly dispatehed a ral staff of-| been very heavy. Heavy demands east of Am! They were evacu At my special request Gen. von! positions, The divisions in t| cer to the battlefield, in order ob ne also been made on its reserves Gted on August 3 and 4. Kuhl proceeded to the second army |that point allowed themselves to bo| tun an ‘idea of the condition of the|to Mil up the gaps. The infantry of Barly tn A decidedly hoped |in order to discuss once again the| completely overwhelmed, Divisionat | (oops. some divisions had to go into action Raat a oe ae eect vine {defensive measures on the line Akl stata were surprised in thelr head:| ‘The reserves of tho second army |stralght off tho lorries, whilst their faminent local attacks and to devise | ncet Moreuil, In this area two divi | quarters by enemy tagke, The breach| were able to stop the enemy's ad-| Artillery had been sent to some other Guenter attacks, tho on @ smaller! iin, that had been a long time in| very soon extended acreas the Lace|vance on Peronne ata point south of|Dart of the line, Units were badly oom than ot ‘. “1 lB se hin had | Position, and seemed especially Ured, | stream; the troops that were still gal-| Tray. 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The stand made by the second army, and the withdrawal of their line by the 18th on the night of the 10th, had improved the aftuation be tween the Somme and Royse, Re serves, too, had arrived and strength: ened the front of the second army ONE ARMY IN BAD SHAPE On the 10th and 11th severe but successful fighting took place on our ponitions south of Albert and between lthe Somme and tho Avre, whilet be ltween the Avre and the Oise the en emy followed up closety and attacked vigorousty, Local attacks occurred }all along the line during the next fow days, Onoe more our troops stood thetr ground, but the second “TWILL NEVER BE WITHOUT IT,” SHE DECLARES “It’s Wonderful to Feel Well Again,” Says Seattle Wom- | “"" an—Praises Taniac “For three years before I took Taniac I didn’t know what ft was to have a well day,” sald Mra L. 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SENSE Most of us were taught In youth Five were to be. a hear, to taste and lor to mee, nce those days they've added es horne-sense has tts uses common sense in lacking ut the least excuse. They'll credit you with go: nense When you do what ts right; They'll think you lack the common nenne argue or to fight. nense re > DIESS | ur AIRS pty | eien better than the divisions between the| ther reason why they should pursue | had done the| the offensive without respite The good behavior of | | the divisions which had been relieved | *ent to the battlefield as to the con shortly before the battle on account| It could be foreseen that a number | ¢ | of additional divisions would becor storm center the divisional fronts} south of the Avre our front had to be trategical remedy ¢ T had no rea-|°" a metiiicey pewertel! | we sack from Montdidier onward, | necessary in order to strengthen the fon to suppose that we should not do| Were harrow, the artillery powerful » the northward the Somme im | bent back from Montdidler onwar econd army, even if the enemy con en 8° SUPE and the organization deep. All expe} occa a halt. Our troops in action |SIX DIVISIONS seen |rience gained on J 10 tal Melos ns ce ee ole sesafutty | W BROKE tinued the offensive, and that In anticipation of these battles a} epon. Only as regarde the com | [rt of the river had successfully not certain, Besides, our lonwes in new group bh quarters was put Into | | phan ot Ka th ~ ¢ eamag | Catries mle anenatt | Six or seven divisions that were prisoners had been hea that bup bh Artets ' uction of works the second ai | line to take over the second, 18th and) saa not done as much as, for ex:|KXHAUSTE quite fairly to be described - effec | cenoral headquarters was again faced ninth armies, (These armies stretched | ample, the 18th, which had captured |MEN PUT 1 five bas bom completely bret tom. sth | With the necessity of breaking up t nocke' m1 | 7 . ‘eo or four others, togeth: ore divin ‘a eieth ‘eserve } Ground the Amiens pocket from the ity positions at a later date | ‘The exhausted divisions that had| ,, Three o T divs, | Ore divintor form resery Reighborhood of Bapaume to Sols rea 0 Gow One tier and|** remnants of the battered di Our reserves dwindled. The losses sons. They had been under command | AMERICANS bseaplmaien ie the renion south. |m0ns, were available for closing the | of the enem 4 had 7 ae See " ne e o Pagal | : of the two crown princes.) The com-| A BIT ROUG rat Ot Parone, were Immediataly | 0rad gap between Bray and Roy been extraordinarily small, The bal Mander was Gen. von Boshn: chief! arty on August §, in a dense fo8.| ited and set in motion by the|_, THe situation was ae, be ance of numbers had moved heavily @f staff, Gen. von Losberg. This Or/ rendered still thicker by artificial) Conander of the second army, At | tous it the enemy com! ae 8 | against us; It was bound to become ganization was to come Into force b& | means, the English, mainly with Aus: | mane time he Deought forwara;wcs, With even ordinary vigor Welincreasingly unfavorable as more 5 > . 7 bene dear should no longer be able to maintain | 4s nericans troops came in, There was tween August 1 and 1 tralian and Canadian divisions, and ard the breach ail other available| | Americans troop As late as the first days of August] the French attacked between Albert | 26rd te . urselves west of the Somme. But! no hope of materially improving our| I was able to tell Gen von Boehn and Moreull, with strong squadrons | "OOF dip. | 1° second army would have to hold! position by @ counterattack. Our that I hoped to hand him over a well ce tanks, but otherwise in no great} ‘Tho Rupprecht army group @i®| on here, while the 18th army, With | only course, therefore, was to hold established line. Unfortunately I was) superiority [patched reserves thither by train./ite left wing standing fast vpn ps j | one aiisieeiatinn » some | Th: gt sy threw its own re | heights along the Mats (west of Las | , Wrong. (With the Australians wore ne ne etn ny eri ne hattle from | Signy) swung its right back ee far as| ADMITS ALLIES WAS GETTING READY TO American troops who had been tealn-| serves directly into the ba oe | hee TOLD TRUTH MAKE PEACE CONCESSIONS jing in this section, Bome of the|the southeast and pushed otherforces/ Mie | 8k 8 8! we had to resign ourselves now to If our line held we would have to] Americans had been refused permis |forward in the region northwest 0 night of August 9-10; should it fail,| the prospect of @ continuation of the igeeperate with the imperial chancel-jsica to go forward, but had donned|/Roye. On an ondet fiom tees ia s}a ‘great enemy vietory was ponaible, |enemy’s offensive oir mucceas has | 1 rm was o y, too, a O itne hac a | it. let, Who was kept regularly informed |Australian uniforms, It was after|army, too, altho itself in danger, had | Arsi’ Oo seas e ey s whose at |been too easily gained. Their wi ‘ ¢ co at lthis battle that King George asked | to ontribute Days, ure, | = b : 2 ami tanend of events at the front, in framing de- | th ter {elapsed before the troops from more |tack, fortunately for ux, was not|lens was jubilant, and announ | cisive plans for the future. That I some Australians, notably not enna cape . ot aieek Yeah fo spot, | Preesed with sufficient vigor, gained |4nd with truth—that the morale of iSienld in so doing be obliged to bury | with ine a eat Very For thelr conveyance the most ex.|«round between the Homme and the|the German army was no longer many hopes was a fact that I could! ty gent of the Americans. “very ‘or thelr _o bs ee Oa Stosts of the Bema. ton, thei weet 14bad been, The enemy had 4 army had to fall back a little, | Also captured many documents of South of the river, It succeeded in| estimable value to them. The entent imust have gained a ulty in finding r idea of our| tur-| erves, & The report of the #taff officer I had| dition of those divisions ‘which had met the firet shock of the attack on the Sth perturbed me deeply. I sum moned divisional commanders and of: flcers from the line to Avexnes to dis cums events with them in detail, I was told of deeds of glorious valor, | but also of behavior which, I open |confems, I should not have jpommible in the German army; whole bodies of our men had surrendered to single troopers, or isolated squad rons, Retiring troops, meeting a fresh division going bravely into action, had shouted ont things like “Black leg!" and “You're prolonging the warl"—expressions that were to be beard again later, ‘The officers in many places had lost their inflyence, and alluwed them selves to be swept along with the rent. BLAMES SPIRIT AT HOME At a meeting of Prince Max's war cabinet in October, Secretary Schelde mann called my attention to a divi sional report on the occurrences of August §& which contained similar unhappy stories. I was not acquaint ed with this report, but was able to verity it from my own knowledge. A battalion commander from the front, who came out with a draft from home shortly before August §, attributed this to the spirit of in subordination and which the men brought back with them from home, Everything I had feared, and of which I had so often given warning, had here, in one place, become a reality, Our war machine was no longer ef fictent. Our fighting power had suf fered, even tho the great majority of Givisions still fought heroically. The 8th of August put the decline of that fighting power beyond all doubt, and in such a situation, aa re garde reserves, I had no hope of find- ing a strategic expedient whereby to turn the situation to our advantage. On the contrary, I became convinced that we were now without that nafe foundation for the plana of general headquarters, on which I had hith- erto been able to butid, at least #o far this is possible in war. THE WAR MUST |BE ENDED - Leadership now assumed, as IT then stated, the character of an irrespon- sible game of chance, a thing I have always considered fatal. The fate of the German people was to me too high a stake. ‘The war must be ended! The 8th of August opened the eyes of the staff on both sides; mine were certainly opened, and so, according to his statement in the Daily Mail, were those of Gen. Foch. The entente be- gan the great offensive, the final bat- tle of the world war, and carried it thru with increasing vigor, as our decline became more apparent. I considered it possible that the oo currences since July 15 might have shaken the confidence of his maj- esty and the fleld marshal in ma Possibly, also, a fresh mind might be able to judge the situation from an unprejudiced point of view. I there fore earnestly requested the field marshal to replace me if he no longer had full confidence in me, or if he | considered it advisable for other rea- sons. He refused, I also discussed my replacement with the chief of the miliary eabt net, in case they had anythin against me personally, The emperor | gave me quite special proofs of his | confidence in those days | I was deop ly mov but remained anxious as| to whether his majesty really read the whole situation aright. I have pe been reassured. The emperor told me later that, after the failure of the July offensive and after August 8, he knew the war could.no longer be won. The official report of the evening of the 8th announced briefly that the enemy had penetrated our line south of the Somme on a wide front. The following morning Gen. von Cramon rang me up at once from Baden, He informed me that iny meport had caused great alarm in Vienna, I could not leave him in any doubt to the serious view I took of the sit- uation. Nevertheless, he begged me to remember how detrir ally the blunt admission of a defent must af. fect our allies, who placed all their hopes on Germany, This occurred again on September 2. The impression made on our allies |by the failure on the western front| was groat. 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