The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1919, Page 15

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DE VICE NOW IN OWN BUSINESS With a» clientele of patrons whe know Just what kind of a mechanic he is, and a mod ern shop that can handle any kind of automobile repairs and adjustments, Jack De View, for three years superin- tendent of the services depart- ment at the Washington Oak- land company, bas set him- self in business at 40h ave, and Stone way. From the day he opened his shop doors, DeVice has been busy. Some of his callers have Just dropped in to say “hello,* and to promise him their work when occasion arose, and others have driven ‘up with the idea in mind that they needed dack’s expert ad. vice and workmanship to get thelr car in fighting trim have in this venture will be earned thru long years of faithful servies to hundreds of Seattle motorists. DAVIS HAS NEW STYLE DUPLEX LAMPS Duplex headlamps, with separate | exhibited by the Summit Motor Co., | Davis distributors. }have been found almost exclusively on the highest priced cars, indicate SHIELDS-LIVENGOOD SERVICE CAR IS ONE BEAUTY labline # oD Renton Ken avel road on f valley, Rood, Kont ravel road good, (Cloned nd Auburn for paving oo | aw rk point to I aw . be 1 — Roads generail Kaumciaw-Kanaskat Via Deep Lake elent ¢ rete bridge Knameclaw - Erankiin Good x“ Aabern-Biaek Diane 4 Black | row + Use ¢ Maple V ime 14 Sunset Mighway— fent ¥ » Fall Cl conditt In excetient condition t Piers or-King county line Water Molty Tolt-Falt City | Kirkland. Mellevue ton now went Kirktand. Patt Redmond Toit ony New port tsaaquab tah- Good ! Newport: Kenton Helles ue Newport Wilburton f Heach to Taylor's ment south ef Bryn Harper Ferry ily from feat 6:20 pm Hoight via ferry at alt Main “| 4 | SED CA Wha R | THE VOGUE Striking and irrefutable evidence of the sensationally rapid rise in| popularity of closed cars, as com-/ pared with open models, is contained ‘tm an analysis of the production of| ‘the National Motor Car & Vehicle! Corp.. covering the last 16 years. The proportion of National closed carn to total output ia shown to have inerea: i from 1 per cent in 1904, the year first National mode} wae built, to an av 20 per cent for the last two with promise of a #till greater in the future. ' year the National company Increase Next closed car manufacture, demonstrat. | ing conclusively that the vogue of | ively recent origin, with a future that in pregnant with great possibill jits distance fre <—sQQ¥ LUDENDORFF BITTER AGAINST GERMAN PEOPLE. 1inst his {German forces between Lake Presba|thra Bulgaria to the Danube. We Ludendorff own people their military r and Action dorff emerges from the men and we husbands and In today’s * appearing seria sons, sters, their the war bitter aga ymen at home who gave their fathers to the Prussian installment of “My Thoughts lly in The Seattle Star, Luden voices his scorn by saying the Germans “were not the iron people, about which I was so often told.” “ ” MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff t tat 4 Herper and Hrot ah rents remer in Bpe Mesers, Seix and Bartel; in Italy by Frate a Canada and In front of von Gallwitz's army|tho with heavy Ic ind the Michel kroup, between St. Mihiel and the] position was occup! The fehting M much movenm had been) was dying down b the 1 early as the en f August (Ludendorff's brief treatment of American offe ive| the American offensive and the re bable there, General head-| markable feat of breaking off the St quarters pushed up reserves | Mihiel salient, fs characteristic of his 1 discussed with the chief of staff) treatment of American feata in the of the army group and of army jwar, When he a not belittle them tachment ©, which was exposed to he jenores them so far as possible, all the attack, the evacuation of the jsalient, which had long ago been} planned and prepared, Local com manders were confident in spite of my demurs. General headquarters was relue tant to evacuate the salient on ac count of the industrial centers lying behind it, and unfortunately did not order this step until September 8. At the same time the southern front of army detachment C was to increase n the enemy, much as had been the case with the Sev teenth army in the middle of August Advanced guards only were to be left In the most forward trenc the work of evacuation been carried very far, wh tember 12, the attack de tween the Rupt de Mad and the Mo elle, accompanied by a secondary of: fensive movement against the north ern end of the salient on the Combres heights. The enemy p rated our line in both places. On the southern sector they broke thru a Prussian division and the re serves w not sufficiently close up to restore the position im mediately, On the Combres Heights there was an Austro-Hungarian divi- sion, which might have fought bet ter. As carly as noon the lc army headquarters ordered the the salient evacuation 1 was dissatisfied with myself, but | also with the local command, The cartier reports indicated that the evacuation wan proceeding satisfa: torily, this being facilitated by the enemy not following up. I founded my official communique, which turned out later to be too favorable, on these reports. DENIES HE WAS UNTRUTHFUL IN REPORTS It has been said that my ¢ niques were unreliable. They we dinputably true and they were frar mmu in d lights for country and city driving, | wit) build more closed cars than dur lim accordance with our duty to the | are a feature of the 1920 Davia stves,|ing the entire first 12 years of ita|®f™y, the people at home and our allies, The evening communique merely dencribed briefly the events of | “These Inmpa, which heretofore |ins cloned type in still of compara.|the day. That of midday was founded on the reports which reached gen- eral headquarters up to the Ume of the while showing plainly how ba¢ he was ups coming of the | American fighting men) According to reports that reached me, the continuation of the Offensive against the M tion (in front of Mets) seemed probat After the 22d the situation changed in front of von Gallwitz's army group. The Mkellhood of an offen sive here diminished and a battle on both sides of the Argonne appeared imminent Duke Albrecht’s army tor, too Gn front of N sidered in danger, but th rather on the conje group's nec ney) wa on t was based tures of my col ues than on reports. 1, on the ner hand, clung to my opinion that | the development of the offensive be- tween Rheims and the Meuse was more likely than an attack in Ls raine | Our troops had suffered severely; itheir numerical strength diminished, eased. The situation grew steadily worse, but the line held with the exception of a few weak places on the Second army sector. BLOWS RAIN ON HIS ARMY The army groups of the Crown |Prinee Rupprecht, von Boehn and of | the German crown prince had carried jout the withdrawals from Kemmel Jand the Lys plain, bebind the Arieux | Moeuvres canal, into the Siegfried Jeystem (the Hindenburg line) and on the Vesle, The movement went with. out a hitch and was completed by the} Rig nth army, which had furthest to ge The by about Beptember 7 arn had not fallen back everywhere to the man trenches, | they manned in some places parts o th d enemy line. Everywhere th e my followed close on our he They soon resumed their offensive, which developed particularly keenly between Moeuvres and Holnon (in front of Arras) against the left wing of the Seventeenth, the whole of the Second (west of Cambraf) and the right wing of the Eighteenth army (west of St, Quentin) and between the Alletts and ‘the Aisne against the left wing of the Ninth and the extreme lright of the Seventh army. (Here and ACCUSES UNITED STATES OFFICIALS On the 16th at Lukow, in command of the th Struma, wired to the inand of Bulgaria) that he istice; he could ond throw entente the Cerna behaved better for a or the latest, the ith, Gen troop tear (Fer | must cor not de himself t jude an publicly arms of the nto the A few days after the 1 report of the French gen into my hands which made it , & secret ral staff fell vidert that the Freneh no longer exp resis Bulgarian nte 4 and the Unit repre who had remained in Sofia, had done their work. (ile again pays bh ts to Dominic I. Murphy t neral, who Ludendorft He the any from army respec United tight in * man protests had great influence with the Bul garian cabinet in the critical days und helped arrange the armistice.) In thi in, the entente had ma od job of it Fous tur nor fla knew Jekow knew before the ba trouble, I wat puts it, deapite ¢ instance ag a thoroly « too, Bolwhe had er our repr thing of thi ebout it; a few days which was known de ear and went to a from the sentative in any Gen “fl tle imminent retand clinic in Vienna. Gen. von Scholtz and all the r mans hag done their utmost, Where Germans were in command the Ful garian army held out. On the moun. tain sector the Bulgarians refused to have a German command. They even far a divisional there whom Gen. von Sct to have removed because went 80 ag to ke genera he and they made nu ot trust him alterations in personnel in BROKE TREATY | ‘The suggestion, put forward by the Bulgars to ak their de tion, that I was in J that soldiers’ councils had been formed among their troops, is untrue, It is ally untrue to say that we had broken a treaty obliga tion to lenve stx divisions on the Bul garian front, for this obligation was confined to the Serbian campaign of 1915 When I came to general headquar- | ters in August, 1916, there was about division in Macedonia. The ob- ligation must also have lapsed on the formation of the German supreme military command for the quadruple alllance in September, 1916. ‘This su preme command did not in any way neglect Bulgaria one there were of about equal strength. The Greek troops with t had had no military experience, and th of sides was not based on conviction. The Bulgarian army “had had a long rest. They had had jthe opportunity to strengthen their forces, and ought rather to have |helped us in the west than to have sought aid from us. We knew well that the Bulgarian rmy was, in fact, in a bad state; The forces opposed to each other| entente | PAGE 15 could not hope to keep Rumania new tral, Sooner or later, the arrival of) jenemy troops in that country was | certain, HAD TO DEFEND HUNGARY | It was obvious that the ententes would attempt to recover Serbia, andy to me n attack from there and Austria, thus gt de grace to the double mone on front was unstae it was quite uncertainy r we would be able to regome it in Be nd Bulgariag ory even on the Di : The far from clear tell whether the really deme army had fought its own country fine example of true patriotism. tulgars could well have done, Of Old Bulgaria, too, nety foot was in enemy occupation, If the Bulgar army fell out gether, then It would certainly bee time for Germany and Austria gary to send substantial forces to Balkans In the then situation it was vital Jo everything to secure our in the Balkan peninsula, in order ill prevent the entente moving fi Hungary and making a flank on Germany and Austria, We man division from thru Bulgaria and Rumania to Gen. von Arz also dispatched an troHungarian division from Ukraine thru Rumania to Serbia. GERMAN TROOPS SENT Three German divisions from cast, which had been released for vice in the west, and had in part dy set out on their |thither, were diverted to Lastly, two divisions from the fan front, which had been over to us by Gen. von Arz fon |vice in the west, were also sent, — | Finally, even from the hi . west front, general | the Alpine corps to Serbia; this had just been withdrawn from line, and still had its mountain |ment, which was urgently Serbia. The west thus lost seven divisions. While the one German di was to be assembled at Sofia to port the government, the others intended to be grouped at | Transport was so bad that this not be completed before the middle October. nd “CARRY ON"! | If Constipated, Bilious — or Headachy, take “Cascarets’’ wtruct rbia unube in Sofia at first » could not whole Bulgar aetna alized. The Seri for years outsides, and had shown a position Feel grand! Be efficient! the thoroly fine equipment of the | reg my rignature—enerally 10:30 a.m. | but there ground for the hope!stay sick, bilious; headach: new Davis models,” sayt Mr.) ty 3904, the total of National) ! wrote them principally for the | Americans were heavily engaged, bat-|that it would be able to withstand |stipated, Remove the Iivi Hotchkin of the Summit company. |ctosed ear production was only three/*fmy; our soldiers had the right to |tling for the hills north of the Vesle the attack which we expected, as, in-| bowel poison which is keeping and west of Rheims) “The new style lamps contribute not} cars, and during the years immedi.|have thelr achievements and suffer jonly to the convenience, but to thelately following, increase was very |!"&" reported. The unit, officer or beauty of the pew Davis. alow, the closed car being regarded|™&n mentioned in the communique ns & vehicle of state, suitable for the | ¥8* proud of it: was it not uplifting | deed, was the case wherever the men Fighting was very keen, but Our) were still willing to fight. We an- line recovered itself, except that in ticipated, now as previously, as did the Second army some weakness #till|/ the German chiefs in Bulgaria, par thead dizzy, your tongue pur breath bad and your ach sour. Why not get @ box of Cascarets and enjoy | COMPANY When the switch is open. yet!use of only the wealthiest families, 0 have one's fame announced to the |remained. On September 18 and 19.|tial failure, but we did not expect |nicest, gentlest laxative-ca ‘ sparks are seen upon disconnecting | ‘Along about 1912 the tide began|WOrld? It provided a stimulus of no particularly severe attacks were | the complete cojlapse of their army.|you ever experienced? Ci Broadway, Between Pike and Pine East 160 and touching lead wir there Is &lto change, and the closed car re-|M*an value to the conduct of the launched on the MoeuvresHolnon| ‘The rumors which had circulated | never gripe, sicken or C 4 » short somewhere along the line. By! ceived recognition as a vehicle of|War, and an important psychological |sector; the left wing of the Second! in Sofia, to the effect that the army | {ence one like Salts, Oll, Calomel ; repeating this test in different loca-\eqsential ail-year-round utility, with|@ncouragement to achieve, The peo-|army was pressed back several kilo-| would not continue fighting after|harsh pills. Cascarets bring | Hons it is possible to locate the posi-!a resultant broadening in the de-|ple at home, too, were rightly proud/meters on the ScheldtOise canal, | September 15, found only too terrible|shine to cloudy minds and tlon of the short |mand, until today the Ume does not to have their sons’ deeds recognized. | north of St. Quentin, the Eighteenth | confirmation. We could not answer |sick bodles. They work while ‘weom far distant when closed mod els will rival those of the open vart ety in point of numbera army being foreed to withdraw its ex |every single cry for help. We had to treme right to conform with this re- | jnsist that Bulgaria must do some- tirement. ‘thing for herself, for otherwise we, EVERY WORD WAS WEIGHED ery word in the official commu - consnaneenitaotapnsans Otherwise, the line was held, se-/ too, were lost. EASE UP WHEN TIRE IS WET/|Mique was carefully weighed; great! vere jocal fighting continuing up to | Wet rubber cuts much casier vents were given in detail: only the | centember 25 an 24. The Frépch ex | than dry rubber. For this reason/Mmost important of lesser engage | tended their offensive further toward | “$ fast travel over rough road sur-|Ments could be mentioned. In quiet! s¢ Quentin. It goes without saying Je no difference whether our ‘ne Without Di faces, particularly n stones, |times a frequent report read: “Not.> | that these days, too, took heavy toll defeat came in Macedonia or in the| or Loss of Time, ; will be very destructive to the |!ng particular,” or “No events of im: | o¢ our entire army. | west. We were not strong enough to} ave a New Method that |ttres when they are wet. Thin is|Portance’; from this an intelligent! «phe German crown prince's army | hold our line In the west and at the|trols asthma, and we want especially true ogurde solids on reader gathered that on all parts of ‘ ‘ ame ab! a st Cor SEpenee jespecially true as regards s0llds on | rete eee eert Clerman inen et oc detour, had taken over command of | same time to establish in the Balkans | whether your case 1s Of 10mm |® heavy truck. | the Ninth army from von Boehn/@ German front to replace the Bul-|ing or recent development, - — Inight and day doing their difficult J] Lets go eat at Bolat's—uptown, 1114 3d Ave.: downtown, 913 24 Av: itis present as hay fever or ¢ asthma, you should send for @ |trial of our method. No mati | what climate you live, no a abayt the middie of the month. This | rian, as we should have had to do duty to the Fatherland with loyal| jemy and the right flank of the Sev-|if we were to bold that front in the devotion Jenth were constantly in action. The| long run, 1 should certainly have preferred | army group had to find its own rein-| The Bulgarian government did| what your age or occupation, fi in times of stress to have employed | eorcements nothing whatever to keep up the|4re troubled with asthma, our re yh eolog e og od_ should relieve you prompt urt phraseology rather than to give | Tension was particularly high on| morale of the troops and the popula. | °C, fhould relieve you. pret full reports, for the events of such | ion sides of fMheims and, after the | tion or to maintain discipline. They|those apparently hopeless: times were appropriate to these /oo4 also on both «ides of the Ar-| ave free, rein to enemy influence, | whe te all copes of ea pl *. 3 q ep o eo Fle . P y opium ba ‘ Dt phr But @ report on the Flan: conne, where on the 26th another) and took no steps against any of the | {hiiyg? etc, have tailed. "We jders battle: “Langemarck Is held,” | creat battle was to break out. (This }@ntl-German agifations. Entente/to show everyone at our é jor lost, would have satiatied nobody. | vrore to the American neh offen. | bribery was the finishing stroke, even that this new method is designed lq nonses of ground were mentioned, | sive) ‘The completion of the Her-|the troops that streamed back to| sing, “and al vrata If they affected the general situ nn line behind the two northern | Sofla being well supplied with enemy | paroxysms at on ‘but not until no harm could be done to the troops engaged by doing so. | Nobody could expect me to communi. | were the true causes| This free offer is too important te 5 ction of Bulgaria from | peglect a single day, Write now. |begin the method at once. 5 the quadruple alliance. Sen Oe Ty mall comma money Jot the jarmy groups had begun, and similar work was actively proceeding in the de rear of the crown prince's group. money. cate our losses in guns and prisoners | Rehind the line Shes n the coast| There were no illusions about the | Do it today. \to the Fornyn med the Germans | ..4 the Meuse, the work of evacua-| Seriousness of the situation created [who think so objectively. tion was often interrupted by suc: | by the collapse of Bulgaria, Turkey, | FREE TRIAL COUPON | NOT AN eos PEOPLE” too, was now in great difficulties. Her |cessful enemy air raids, Huge sup | Palestine front was broken beyoni FRONTIER ASTHMA CO., | plies of material had tobe moved, Room . Niagara and Hudson stay > Buffala N We were not the iron people, about | which were essential for the further repair. (Gen. Allenby had capture: Y which I was so often told in those | prosecution of the war. Many sec-|Jerusalem and more than 80,000 Send free trial of your methed very days. The habit of reading en-| tors had worked on bad supply sys: | Turks.) to emy communiques had done damage | tems and the result was now felt. Here, again, the German officers enough already. Suspicion of the re-| The Austro-Hungarian line held in| and men had done their duty, and port from general headquarters went Italy, ‘There were no indications of | had fought like heroes on the Jordan. | c sis a jat times so far as to cause them to/an Italian offensive. | here were, however, limits to our 4 f. 0. b. Seattle : —— be compared with enemy reports./ RULGARS DID ae eee we Kersatcan. Broo iS - | That was typically German, NOT RESIST no ‘Turkish army together for a | ————— The Lowest Priced 4,000-lb. Capacity "Was it not, for example, « great| "thus mutters stood when events in| time r ‘trategic victory for us to have held |the line in Flanders in 1917, altho |we suffered tactical reverses, that lcost us prisoners and materials of war? If I mentioned in my report ed us to grave decisions, | CONSTANTINOPL | T FALL | 1 | a] st Bulgaria foro On September 15 the armies of the | MUS entente attacked in Macedonia, east} The English were guining groun of the Vardar, in the mountains be-/rapidly northward along the co: tween Vardar and the Cerna, andjand along the railway to Damascus. | For the discriminat- ing Kodak Devotee Some Traffic Veatures Track in the World eas enienen ‘The best materials, assembled by better mechanics, under better en- that the enemy had reached our ar-|ajso with weaker forces near Mon-| This, it is true, did not amount to a) 8 neto; 4-plec gineering methods, coupled with quantity preduction on 1 single model tillery lin’ one could deduce thelastir, On both flanks the attacks |threat to Constantinople, but it had | ART PROOF yey ed ad in the largest factery of its kind in the world have made high quality | 1900 in prisoners and guns aeatee broke down. | grav fects on the Turks’ power to with Timk and low price possible in the Traffic. not sufficient? Did people wish to) In the center, where the attack| resist. Having regard to the loy- wallow in misery? | was faced with the greatest obstacles | alty of Enver and Talaat, this would | | General headquarters had allowed | (nere the French and Serbs had to|not have had any decisive effect by the enemy communiques to be pub-| cross a high mountain range) the | itself on the attitude of Turkey; but lished, in reliance on the clearsight- | Bulgarian second and third divisions | the entente had now substantial free edness of the German people. I had| offered no resistance; they simply | forces in Syria, and was also, as a the impression later that it Was | surrendered the position. 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A belated order for-|Ken country, eminently suited for de| ‘There were only very weak Turk-|f} reproduction of an chassis ed, ; strate. bidding thé publication of these re | ¢ hilt: me tainous. h re, thie taabe 06 heise +49 Pe walutihed? arivers | Ton Alco " lense, hilly, even mountainous. ish forces here, the task of protecting | 'st’s — with Tazy-back seat and cush- | 5- |ports seemed to me even more ques} Gen, von Scholtz sought to bring|this line having been hitherto left to Artist _ Proof ton regular eaulpment tionable. France knew wit she was! the Bulgarians to a stand on the/the Bulgarian army on the Struma.|ff Margin al space— -neumatic cord * , doing when she forbade the publish: | second line by moving up| It was, of course, possible to bring “ Md a t at extra cost | \ § 3 _ ° were never used for propaganda lrealized, The second and third Bul-|and perhaps als@ from the Ukraine, | embossed borders. I have mentioned that I had also) parian divisions retreated, as if on|but we had never succeeded in ar-| PAN Y | to consider the effect of our official 4 gefinite plan, without any show of {ranging transport of troops on any | A large display of allies, This was im. reports on our | cbgined portant in our ¢ ause our allies | relied entirely upon us. | One thing must be admitted: | Wolff's commentaries on my reports, edited in Berlin and intended solely shind the Cerna in one | larg V ne direction and vind the Vardar another, The Bulgarian reserv equal in strength to three German di- seale across the Black sea, the | available shipping being insufficient. Reinfe ements were, however, moved at one some battalions from visions, did not fight at all, the Ukraine being sent to Constanti- | The German troops, which had re|nople, It was not possible, however, | for the neutrals, were not happily | cently been reinforced by battalions | to achleve any permanent result. | worded, There was good reason for) from Rumania, could not close the| Constantinople was bound to fall, the tone of these telegrams; but T/.45 unaided. ‘The northern descent |and whether it fell in November or stopped them, altho too late, as 8000) 1, the valley of the Vardar in the| December made very little difference as I realized the harm they did. |neighborhood of Krivolac was open|te the situation as a whole, Once ADMITS |to the entente, All further efforts to| the town fell, it was to be expected HEAVY LOSSES | On the W |reorganize and make a stand failed.|that the entente fleets would estab- ation of the salient was carried thru, Only the Bulgarians incorporated in| thru the Black sea, and send troops The All-American House local subjects now on exhibition, in National. 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