The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 7, 1919, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919. EICHSTAG AND GERMAN PEOPLE ASTOUNDED WHEN DEFEAT CAME awoke with a shock early in October, 1918, to the) its military chiefs had practiced. Word went thru that Hindenburg and Ludendorff had admitted that ry was impossible and that erg must come quickly. Not twenty-four hours was to be in beginning negotia- ion for none knew what might happen to the army at any SILK _SALE At THE SILK SHOP WESTLAKE AT PINE—UPSTAIRS—ABOVE THE “OWL” DRUG STORE ment that was to be formed from’ | their ranks, ‘The soldier who has had |to fight heavy battles for four years j with inwufficient weapons, becomes | hardened to dangers, but the man in| in a very different case who suddenly |has such difficulties, of immeasur able greatness, placed vividly before him. | Igbad been writing to the govern. | | moMft for two years on end with refer: ob- ence to the shortage of reinforce. | |ments. The auxiliary service law, | |my efforts to have it amended and | to bring women more and more tnto | LUDENDORFF in_ to- morrow’s Star reveals how, after the first reply of President Wilson to the ar- mistice proposal, he tried to arouse the German gov- ernment amd people to fight on until more favor- able terms could be tained. He resents the idea that it was his pessimistic report on the state of the L dorff’s system of press censorship and propaganda been doing its work well. Unpleasant facts were hidden. ef were minimized and glossed over as part of a great, an of the army chieftains. | ‘The 'f, who had consistently ignored the reichs-| ‘Viisiontle upon thousands of yards of beautiful Silks, Satins, Velvets and Velvet- eens, in black and all the late colors, to be sold at greatly reduced prices found himself in position where he must get peace at or face a supreme disaster. He sent his messenger to leaders. This messenger delivered a blunt, message. Ludendorff thought such a tremendous wet could be kept. He found he had blundered, It was m shouted from the housetops and the German panic 4 “My THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff by The Star thru special arrangement with the MeClure Newspaper ted, 1919, by Harper and Brothera All rights reserved. in Britain by Hutchinson & Company and the Lendon Times; by Messrs. Seix and Bartel; in Italy by Fratelli Treves; in Canada and All rights reserved for France, Belgium, Holland, Russia and the countries 3 the new cabinet/the Macedonian front, and of the Prince Max of Baden, who| weakening of our reserves in the ne Count von Hertling) had| West, which this has necessitated, \ the field marshal being | and in view of the impossibility of % to represent general head: | making food the very heavy losses t he set out again, for the/ of the last few days, there appears @f the chancellor, in my view | to be now no possibility, to the best ite accuracy, the views of/of human judgment, of winning headquarters in a statement /| peace from our enemies by force of img as follows: arms, headquarters holds to the; “The enemy, on the other hand, by it on Ménday, the/is continually throwing new and ] Gf this year, for an/ fresh reserves into the fight. _ Ate offer of peace to the) “The German army still holds firmly together, and beata off vic & result of the collapse of * toriously all the enemy’s attacks, but || army that caused the Ger- man government. to hasten || to make peace on any || terms, the position grows more acute day by day, and may at any time compel ua to take desperate measures. “In these circumstances the only) right course in to give up the fight, in order to spare useless sacrifices for the German people and their ab | Nes. Every day wasted costs the) ves of thousands of brave German soldiers. “VON HINDENBURG.” | The field marshat had added in| bis own handwriting that the sole} motive of the abovementioned de- mand for peace of the 29th Septem- ber was to pave the way to the achievement of an honorable peace. TO EXPLAIN TO REICHSTAG On October 4 the field marshal re turned to Spa, and on the Sth the first note to Wilson was dispatched, At the request of Secretary Count | von Roedern, who had come to Spa, and who was to carry on with the vice chancellor the negotiations with parliamentary had had @ short conversation, in the presence of Vice Chancellor von Payer, with Prince Max, who had meanwhile come to Berlin, and had service, my suggestions for round: | ing up shirkers and deserters at home, were all fully fustified, not) only by the Hindenburg program, | but also by the need of manpower at the front. All my suggestions for raising morale at home conatituted a ques tion of infinite tmportance tn the} conduct of the war, for the solution | of which the chancellor was respon. | ible to the whole people. All these problems were interdependent. If morale waa good, the shirkers and) deserters would be kept at the front, the exempted men at home would be more readily released for service; there would be leas shortage of re inforcements and the moral effects of the fighting would be better over come. | I was #0 surpriaed by the effect of Major Baron von dem Busche’s| speech, that I questioned him on his) return aa to whether he had enaid) anything different from what we had | discussed. He gave me the draft of His rightly earnest peroration as! to what was needed of the people met | with no response, I think that, in| their great excitement, his hearers In many instances the prices are far below what we could buy them from the fac- tories for today. before the big advances. 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He described the position in the Balkans, as resulting from the defec- tion of Bulgaria, perhaps a little too favorably, and the position on the Western froht with full confidence, Praising the troopa. As was his duty, he stated that the question of reinforcements was very |. Oy 66 fantry. The morale of our reinforce ments was bad. Major Baron von dem Busche con- cluded thus; “We can carry on the war for a substantial further period; we can cause the enemy further heavy losses; we can lay waste his country as we retire, but we cannot win the “Realizing this fact, and in view of the course of events in general, the field marshal and General Luden- dortt have resolved to propose to his majesty that we bring the fighting to a close in order to avoid further sacrifices on the part of the German people and their allies, “ABANDON WAR AS HOPELESS” “Just as our great offensive was brought to a stop on July 15, imme-| diately it was seen that its continu-| ation would involve undue sacrifice | of life, #0 now we must make up our! minds to abandon the further prose- | cution of the war as hopeless. There is still time for this, The German army has still the strength to keep the enemy at bay for months, to aghleve local successes and to cause further losses to the entente. But| each new day brings the enemy | nearer to his aim, and makes him the | lens ready to conclude a reasonable Peace with us, “We must accordingly lose no time. | Every 24 hours that pass may make our position worse and give the enemy a clearer view of our present weakness. “That might have the most disas trous consequences, both for the prospects of peace and for the mili- tary position. “Neither the army nor the people should do anything that might be-| tray weakness, While the peace of. for is made, you at home must show a firm front, to prove that you havo} the unbreakable will to continue the | fight if the enemy refuse us peace or, offer only humiliating conditions, “If this should prove to be the case, the army's power to resist will depend on a firm spirit being main tained at home, and on the good to the front.” (Busche'’s speech acted like a high explosive shell on the reichstag lead | ers and its reverberations went quickly thru Germany and even came to the outside world thru the neutral countries. Ludendorff's ex- planations of it in the passages be- low show he had slight idea of the jconsequences he would provoke by his bluntness.) dem Busche expressed both my pro. gram and my views, and this not only for the members of the reich stag, but also for the new govern: morale that will permeate from home | | In this speech Major Baron von of our weakness, It was highly regrettable that the cutgoing government, the Hertling| cabinet, which was succeeded by the cabinet of Prince Max of Baden, did) not thform the major that there was & Pole among his hearers. They must have known that this indi-/ vidual would immediately publish at} home and abroad everything that he! heard. { On the assumption that the new! government would be formed by | October 1 and In my views as to my | @uty to the army, I held conversa! tions In Spa on September 30 and) Lift off Corns! Doesn’t hurt a bit and Freezone costs only a few cents. aw With your fingers! 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ZAHRT, Westlake at Pine Above New Owl Drug Store The Silk Sh | October 1 with representatives of the chancellor and of the foreign office, and also instructed Major Baron von dem Busche to co-operate with the field marshal in pressing urgently for the dispatch of the note to Presi- dent Wilson asking an armistice on October 1, or at the latest at noon on the 2nd. My principal motive was to avoid further loss of life, but I also at ltached great weignt to the view that) the reichstag, not having been prop- | the earlier we began, the more favor- | erly able would our position be at the commencement of the negotiations, If it could not at this time be described as threatening, it might within two or three weeks become of the greatest importance whether the army was to have an armistice, or (if it had to fight on) the moral encouragement from home, 24 hours sooner or later. In this position any delay in the formation of the new government was inexcusable, I spoke often with my staff to this effect, and always acted on this view. I am unable to understand how the {dea ever arose that I had said that the front would break if we did not have an armis- tice within 24 hours discussion with Secretary von Hintze on September 29 and the majors speech of October 2, wholly consistent with one another, was no particular military modification of my views. MYSTIFIED BY | BERLIN I had repeatedly begged von Hintze | ° to retain his secretaryship, if the new chancellor should be willing, in | lorder to secure a certain degree of ! continuity This was in vain, how ever, In the night of October 1-2, the general staff had simplified com munications between his majesty and the Grand Duke of Baden by laying down @ trunk telephone line, in order to hasten the appointment of Prince Max I acted all the time tn the same point of view, that, once the decision was taken, we should act at once. We should not let days be wasted, let alone, as so often before, the whole plan come to nothing. it was no question of obtaining an armistice in 24 hours, but simply of Between my | which are) I repeat that | initiating communications with the enemy in some day or another, | ‘That this was not equivalent to | getting an armistice, no one knew | better than I, who had a better | judgment of the enemy's views than | the new government, In my quiet | but anxious thought, I was complete- lly mystified by the events in Bertin, and could find no explanation there | of, save this: That the members of | informed of anything at the | right time, had now, in their anxiety and excitement, greatly Increased by | surprise, misunderstood what Major | Baron von dem Busche had said, and | | that even Prince Max and the new) | government were not sufficiently | | well informed to understand the po-| sition properly. TO URGE BUT NOT “JOSTLE” Late in the night of October 1, and in the course of October 2, Colonel von Haeften rang me up re- peatedly and described to me the IS THIS YOUR CASE? general Is your | poor? Does your food fail «then you and your sleep to refresh? Do you find it hard to do or to bear what should b ? 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I had informed him on September 30 of the events at Spa, and had in- structed him to urge the govern ment to act quickly and ener- getically; he was not to “jostle” them, bit to make clear the grave disadvantages that would follow every day of hesitation and inactiv- ity, To Colonel von Haeften, also, von Hintze had explained on the afternoon of September 30 that the new government would be formed at the latest on the afternoon of Octo ber 1, so that the peace offer could be dispatched on the evening of the same day. After the discussion with Colonel von Haeften on the evening of Octo- | ber 1, I understood the situation, and realized that von Hintze's expecta- tion would not be realized. 1 in. structed von Haeften to see that no unnecessary delay occurred, but in view of the position in Berlin I re signed myself to a postponement of the dispatch of the note. After tho statement by the field marshal to the new cabinet, general headquarters had no further influ- ence in the drafting of the note or on the course of the political negotia- tions, I regarded the note as some. and proposed h more manly wording, but no atten- tion was paid to my demands. It was unfortunately inevitable that we should base ourselves on Wilson's 14 points. They were not dissimilar in thelr general lines to | the social-democratic views that had come forward in Germany, and so far as number goes they correspond with the Austro-Hungarian note to Serbia of the end of July, 1914. In a telegram on October 2 T em. phasized “that the 14 points of the Wilson note were to serve as the basis for the discussion of peace terms, but were not to be regarded as conditions imposed on us by the enemy.” The field marshal had taken the same standpoint in Berlin, but had met with no support from the secretaries of state, Vice Chancellor von Payer alone agreeing with him, A commission was assembled at Spa to work out the armistice con: ditions, General von Gundell pre. “| sided, and the chancellor was repre- op JUST ARRIVED Tub Crepe Shirt- ing, Special $2.95, $3.25 and $3.85 sented by von Hintze. The other members were General von Winters feldt, Major Brinckmann and Naval Captain Vanselow, Efforts were made, by explana- tiens to the army, to eliminate any weakening effects of the request for armistice and peace. Subsequently to the 29th Sept. ber I discussed the offer with pec of the commanders. 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