The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 2, 1919, Page 7

THE SEATTLE ST. THURSDAY, OCTOBER |LUDENDORFF ORDERED LENS | | COAL FIELDS DEMOLISHED “It was no easy decision” on the part of Ludendorff to} |J\erder the withdrawal of his army to the Hindenburg line early in September, 1918, he admits in The Star today. He had hoped to stand in the positions he had fortified on the} western edge of the devastated region, where he had taken| possession of the lines of trenches that existed before the -| FREDERICK FREDERICK & NELSO FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE & NELSON | AVENUE AND PINE STREET UDENDORFYF tells tomorrow, without apology, how he _plan- ned to burn Paris and Staunch School Shoes | FIFTH | ) | $6.75 Pair For Growing Girls AN Elkskin is the sturdy leather in these Shoes built over English-style last, with leather or Neolin soles and appropriately low heels. Sizes 214 to 7, widths A to D. 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And in the Published by The Star thru special Beandinavian co: Between the Oise and the Aisne [northwest of Solssons) the great French attack had already succeeded |Auguat 20. By the 17th the French had pushed back our advanced troops on to the main line of defense I found out later that these had offered stronger resistance than they should have done, The fighting jstrength of several divisions was ‘thereby diminished to an extent that |had not entered into my calculations. The attack developed exactly as had been anticipated. The counter attack divisions stationed near Cuts (southeast of Noyon), however, were {not thrown into the fight. A deep salient was made here, rendering the position of the troops, with the Olne in their rear, exceedingly uncomfort able, In the direction of Nouvron also, the enemy broke into our line, but was driven back, altho not com pletely, by counter attacks delivered by good German Jager divisions Even apart from the two points of penetration, we did not succeed in maintaining our main line of reaist ance intact. The position was now failed to attack, and his line went to smash. « in Italy b His army, however, was justifying his fears that it would jnot stand well on the defensive. came to him as Foch hammered at his lines. had prepared for a counter-attack near N One trouble after another Divisions he yon, when the d between the Oise and Aisne, The Canadians front of Arras, The Americans him back north of Soissons. going back, he realized that the | Hindenburg line would not hold, for he prepared two others) rear and ordered the devastation at Lens and other! places and the shipping of loot to Germany. “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff Grrangement with the McClure Newspaper and Brothers hts reserved London Times a and and the ya Fratelli tum, Holla: joffensive against the Arras-Cambrat road opened (led by the Canadians) Here again the troops at first fell back according to plan, the early stages of tho fighting developing fa vorably for Subsequently the English reached the Wotan aystem, On September 2 a strong assault by English-tanks over-ran obstacles and trenches in this ine and paved a way for their infantry Shortly after 2 o'clock tn the after noon Gen. von Kuhi and Lieut Col von Pavelaz, the chief of staff of the | iTth army, reported that it would no longer be wise to form a new line in front of the Arleux-Moeuvres canal. They requested permission from gen eral headquarters to withdraw the 17th army to that line, whilst hold ing the position north of the Scarpe. We had to gdmit the necessity for this measure. In concert with von Roehn's army group, we had to take another important step on account of us the position of the second army, with: | drawing its line and that of the 18th jarmy to the Siegfried position, such that it seemed unwise to at | CoULD NoT tempt to maintain our line in front of AFFORD MEN the Oise and the Allette. General) It would no doubt have been pos [headquarters decided to withdraw the | sible to keep the left wing of the 18th right wing of the ninth army behind | army in front of the Siegfried line, on the Oise on the night of the 2st. and/the Crozat canal, but that required Jon the night of the 224, whilst hold-|more men than the defense of the ing the ground to the northwest of | St. Quentin-La Fere line, with the Solssons, to withdraw the center of | broad valley of the Oise in front of the army behind the Aflette |it, General headquarters rejected The battle had again taken an um-|this idea, and brought the entire favorable course, in spite of all our 18th army back Into Siegfried line. precautions; the nerves of the army | The ninth army, and also the right had suffered. In some places the men | wing of the seventh, had to conform would no longer stand the tremen-|to this movernent, the latter aban- and tank at \doning the Vesle (in front of Amert- tacks, which had become still more can divisions) and taking up a posl- severe. Again wo had suffered heavy tion behind the Aisne, whilst the left and irreparable losses. wing of the same army continued to August 20 was another black day,|hold the Vesie to the northeast of Uterally compelling the enemy to con. | Fixtnes. tinue the offensive. Meanwhile the ninth army had vORCED 40 oan been heavily engaged, battles of tre ORC mendous violence developing on nev- NEW RETREAT eral occasions (Americans were again I caloulated on the continuation of!engaged here, smashing back the the enemy's attack between the Oise | German Une north of Soimons in a and the Aisne toward Laon; an ad-| series of powerful attacks), Thanks vance here would be fruitful of re-|to the unflagging skill and foresight sults, rendering untenable the posi-\of Gen. von Carlowitz and his chief tions of the 18th army to the north | of staff, Lieut. Col. Faupel, and to of the Oise, and of the seventh to the | the gallantry of several divisions, this north of the Vesle. The enemy wasjarmy for the most part maintained pressing the Solmons-Chauny lne/its positions. The first guard infan- strongly. Fierce fighting ensued here | try division, coolly and ably led by with varying success, and the end Prince Eitel Frederick and the well- could not yet be foreseen. |tried dismounted guardcavalry divi- | The 18th army, which took over | sion, fought magnificently, quite un- the command of the troops on the | daunted by tanks. Oise, was at this point directly and | " seriously menaced from the south. Le arenes As a result of the course of events ry east of Albert (the British advance)| It was no easy decision to with- and south of the Oise, the position of | draw the entire front from the Scarpe the German troops, between the | to the Vesle, but it shortened our line Somme and the Oise was by no/and economized men, which, consid: means so secure as the general mill-|ering our huge wastage, was an ad- tary situation demanded. It would| vantage worth some sacrifice, not- have been fatal to run risks at this | withstanding that it was shared by County for point. ORDERS A WIDE RETREAT The army groups of the Crown Prince Rupprecht and von Boehn were therefore ordered to retire dur jing the last days of August to the line already reconnoitered east of Ba. -in front of Ham—the heights northeast of Noyon (a front of more |than 35 miles). As their reserve line, the Stegtried |system (the Hindenburg line) was |now to be put in order. Yon Boehn’s army group had attached importance to the retention of the left bank of | |cause from there favorable flanking movements against the area north of Peronne were possible. Between |Ham and Noyon a canal, which of, fered a good obstacle to tanks, deter |mined the position of the line. These movements were carried thru about |the night of August 26-27, The 17th army, which had only a |[ short wheel to the rear to perform, | |and the 18th, carried out the retire |ment without a hitch and in good order, and held their new positions Jagainst enemy attacks. army was leas fortunate, Northwest of Peronne the new line failed to hold. The division to the southwest of the town let the enemy gain the left bank, thus rendering the situa- tion very difficult for the troops on the northern bank, Again some divi 1-| sions failed, putting a terrible strain t-|on other gallant troops. (it was the Australians, aided by me American detachments, who smashed th \hold the high ground around Peronne The Germans on the formidable Mt St. Quentin felt so secure that they were taken utterly by surprise when |their position was stormed.) CANADIANS: to is ill paume—in front of Peronne—Somme | the Somme, in front of Peronne, be-| ne wecond | rman calculations to | |the enemy. |for the troops in and to the east of the Siegfried line, whilst the enemy | was compelled to occupy ground ren dered desolate by the withdrawals in the spring of 1917. The center of the 17th army was to be withdrawn behind the Arleux | Moeuvres canal during the night of the 34, whilet in general the retire |ment was to be undertaken as one ; movement, the detailed orders being prepared by the army groups. In addition, the long-prepared evac- Juation of the Lys salient by the |fourth and and sixth armies, was now carried out in order to econo mize man-power. At the same time general head | quarters gave orders, after consulting the commanders of the army groups, for the reconnaissance and strength- jening of # new line, the Hermann |line, behind the two northern army ps. ‘This line was to start on the Dutch frontier east of Bruges, follow the Eeloo canal southward to the Lys, continue upstream to the east of Courtrai, and then along the upper reaches of the Scheldt to southwest of Valenciennes. Further south it | was to follow the Solesmes-le Cateau iuise line, PREPARED THIRD POSITION Southwest of Marie, the Hermann line joined the Hunding-Brunnhilde position, which, constructed in 1917, passed by Sissone to the Aisne and continued upstream along that river. To the east of the Aisne the defen- sive position was continued by the rear lines of Gallwitz’s army group which terminated in the Michael lin which, flattening out the St. Mibiel salient, ran across the Woevre plateau to a point west of the Mo: selle, Pagny. The positions which ady existed were to be strengthened as much as available la bor permitted. near al Conditions were easter | |} London by raining in- cendiary bombs on them from the air. This final atrocity was aban- doned, not from any consideration of mercy, but because the Ger- mans dared not do it in view of their weakness in the field and the al- lies’ campaign of air re- || prisals, LRA ae | ronds and for putting the coal mines | out of working order, Villages were | mot to be interfered with unless for urgent tactical reasons. (it was under this order that the Germans demolished the Lens coal region, doing damage that will not be {repaired in lesa than five years, pos sibly 10 years, They were carrying out this program th other parts of | France and Belgium, until President Wilson, in the first of his armistice gave blunt warning that no armistice would be granted to Jarmy guilty of such conduct.) TAKING THE LOOT HOME | Large scale evacuation to Germany | Was undertaken. Our railway com munications were not favorable for this. In the north they were hemmed | im toward Liege by the strip of Duteh |territory running south to Maas |tricht; the line we built near Vine had not proved sufficient to overcome | this diMculty, Further south impor tant railways converged on the CharlevilleMontmedy line, and pre [sented a particularly favorable target |for enemy air raids | Supplies from Germany had al-| |ready been cut down to absolute es-| sentials. | The withdrawal of the front line to the Siegfried position made| Avesnes no longer a suitable position | for general headquarters, and we ac | cordingly returned to Spa, which we |had left in March so full of hope and | confidence. The enemy's strength was heavily taxed an well os ours, as they at tacked again and again on various | sectors with the same divisions. Their |lomees, too, must have been heavy, |but they were on the offensive, and |we had to submit to their raining blows on us, just as in 1917, Our ex-| periences of thone battles were re | peated, our troops fighting better in attack than on the defensive. Our relative strength in divisions Was more favorable at the beginning of September than it had been in the| previous year, but some of our di-| vite were very weak; we had, Whilst retaining the machine gun companies, to reduce our battalions | from four to three companies. The | |material ordinarily needed by four | companies was excessive in relation | to the actual strength; for example. we did not need four field cookers | to a battalion, two or three being | amply sufficient. } MORE AMERICANS COMING With the breaking up of » number | of our divisions, and the arrival of further Americans in the fighting line, the balance of numbers was) bound to be still more unfavorable to us, Shirking at the front became more | prevalent, expecially among men re turning from home leave. Over-ntay- ing of leave increased, and the fight ing line was more thinly manned. The ministry for war was at last pre- pared to call up exempted men in greater numbers for the army, with what success remained to be seen. What would be-the morale of these | men? From the divisions in the east we had long ago extracted every man who could be employed in the fight ing divisions of the west. Our post tion in the east at this time was) more satisfactory. The doviet govern: | ment had paid the first, quickly fol-| lowed by the second, instalment of the Russian indemnity; relations had | been established with the Don Cos | sacks. We were thus able to dispose of n few divisions of poor fighting quality, consisting of older classes not up to the standard of the western front. Should the peace endeavors of the government prove unsuccessful, and| the war continue over the winter and into the following summer, export from the Ukraine became a vital mat- | ter both for ourselves and for Aus | tria, It was as important as ever to maintain the blockade against Bol shevism and to prevent the allies forming a new line in the east. For this reason the three German dis mounted cavalry regiments and the seanty artillery, under Gen. Count von Goltz, remained in Finland, faith- fully watching the Murman railway and the gates of St. Petersburg. Our plans against the English garrison in Baku were still being carried out The dual monarchy could still spare a division or two for the west. HIS ARMY MORE MUTINOUS All this, however, was not even nu- merically, let alone morally, adequate to compensate for the increasing | strength and confidence of the enemy | in the west. It was quite clear that | the distressing manifestations in the | German army would not decrease, | but rather multiply, with the con- stant retreats and the disintegrating influences from home. It was exceedingly diMcult for gen eral headquarters to reinforee the army groups of Crown Prince Rup: precht and von Boehn, My task would have been easier had general notes, Featuring Three F avorite Fabrics for Autumn These New Suits of Tricotine, Silvertone and Velour Are Cu on Lines of Distinguished Simplicity TRICOTINE IN NAVY BLUE is the material of the model sketel at left. 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