The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 9, 1919, Page 7

lk, arm tht if they did not grant Germany a compromise. 7 Re & Americans, and that the German arm allies. . Se By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff Dublisned by The st te Copyrighted. by jarper and Brother righted in Great Hiritain by Hutchinson & Company a by Mosere. Seix and Bartel; in Italy by Fratelli All rights reserved for France, tum, He wian countries. ‘The battle which had broken out the western front at the end of pa ber had meanwhile continued Orage. It took the form of a power. attempt on the part of the enemy break thru the army groups of the Prince Rupprecht and von al yy SY —*. ToTemper Autumn Breezes to the Low Footwear Z of the Vogue . ‘OMEN are unwilling to relinquish the Pumps and Oxfords that af- ford so much of style-satisfaction and ; comfort, and there is no reason why they 4 ‘ should when skillfully tailored Spats adapt them for year-round wear. 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On the one hand he was pressing the Berlin! ment to make peace as quickly as possible, while, other, he was trying to convince the allies that the Ger- on was still strong enough to put up a long defensive) should have been very few men on It will be recalled how the German propaganda agencies) trying to spread thru the world the idea that the re-| to the Hindenburg line had been merely part of de- ive strategy, adopted in view of the growing numbers i intended to re- to the German frontier at its own leisure, taking up| tified line after line and devastating the country in front Ludendorff reveals that he was not taking his time. He retiring when Foch made him do so, always hustled and of hed and forced to all sorts of expedients to avert a dis- ne before he could make peace. His Hindenburg line was Me ced before he had ag the line behind it. He was fever- ‘ trying to get other lines ready. & retreat nor get supplies for fight ing. The Americans were pressing the southern end of the pincers.) These officers, with thelr loya! men, achieved miracles of bravery. Regi- mental, brigade and even divisional commanders, with officers and a few soldiers, often with their clerks and servants, personally restored the po- sition, and prevented the vastly #u- "jearly part of October. “ling greater successes against them, “| the enemy had no longer much stom- ach for the Aight. RS IN GERMAN ARMY INCREASED AS ALLIES ADVANCED SAYS, LUDENDORFT ]On account of diMicultios of trans. port, men on leave at home had to | remain there for a time. They stayed jlonger than was good for them. In the critical November days there leave in Germany, but, In fact, there were only too m ‘The periods allowed to divisions for rest and repair of thelr equipment and clothing became even shorter. Good divisions had more work thrown on them than the leas reli» able, That, too, had undesirable con ye sequences. ‘The men could not under- stand why they were so often thrown Jinto the gaps, and their morale/ failed, The strain became greater and |ereater, and strength was exhausted It was uncommonly difficult to find) the true medium and at the samo! time to reinforce the weak spots, Cases increanod where second line di visions had to be thrown hurriedly into line, and in which formations | broke up altogether. The strain on the nerves of the leaders at the front increased without | coame, and they had a heavy task; but they never lost their proud courage| or thelr clear perception of their country’s needa. Nothing could break them, GIVES UP BELGIAN COAST While its right wing held firm on the Yser, below Dixmude, and its left wing held round Armenticres, the main body of the Fourth army was forced back on Roulera and Menin in continual fighting in the It developed into @ series of local engagements | which passed off without important events On October 14 the enemy renewed their attack, In the direction of Roulers they gained ground beyond the town. Kortemarck, too, we lost On the other hand, they could not advance much toward Menin. Near Wervicqa we beat them off. Local successes also attended the enemy on the 15th, causing our army to fall back to the line Dixgmude-Thou- rout-Ingelmunster-Courtrai. The divisions of the Fourth army were numerically weak, and the only explanation of the enemy not obtain- |apart from the admirable of the army, lies in tho fact that The Fourth army was still under the command of Gen. von Arnim, whowe chief of staf! was now Major Humeer, a gifted soldier. ‘The Fourth army was by this time in such a difficult position that gen eral headquarters had to withdraw | }it temporarily from the fight and! shorten its line. ‘The army was or- dered to retire on the Hermann tine, behind the canal at Eecloo and the| Lys. This involved the abandonment of the Flanders coast. The subma- rine station had meanwhile been re moved. These movements of the Fourth army were undertaken on October 17, jon which day I traveled to Berlin jagain, to attend a discussion of the |second Wilson note, which had by this Ume arrived. At the name time, the Seventeenth army had to undergo a diMeult time since the enemy broke thru at Cambrai on September 27. Up to Oc- tober & there were violent battles with varying fortunes on both sides of Cambrai, and we succeeded in holding the town. The Second army was not so suc- cessful, being pressed further and further back toward Le Catelet in the early days of October. Toward Bohain the enemy gained ground. The right wing of the Eighteenth army, which was also engaged in heavy fighting, was affected by this loss. On the Sth it met another heavy blow in the neighborhood of Le € let and southward therefrom, which it repulsed. Gere is where New York's Twen- ty-seventh and the “wildcat” division were fighting.) In the night of October 9 we were compelled to withdraw the Second army into the Hermann line, as there were no reserves to ald it To conform with this m ment the Seventeenth army had to move its left wing and its center back to a line half way from Cambrai to Valen- clennes, the right wing for the pres. ent being stationed immediately to the west of Doual. The Eighteenth army i, like the Second, to fall back to the Hermann line. Its left wing remained at La Fere. A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT The decision that the Second and Eighteen’ rmies should occupy the Hermann line, whose construction was byt little advanced, was a great disappointment to us. I had hoped that the Siegfried line (the Hinden burg line) would have held for much longer. Already in the fighting at the be «inning of October to the north of St. Quentin, we had been gradually forced out of the position at many spots, but we had, generally speak- ing, kept the line. We had not even completed the evacuation of the ground in front of the Hermann line. The retirements were carried out smoothly, On the 10th already the enemy attacked the new positions and was beaten off, On the 11th, to the rortheast of Cambrai, he had a local success against the Seventeenth army, which was prevented from ex tending. During the days following up to the J7th, there was new fight ing on the front of the Second and Seventeenth armies, which on the whole were successful for us. As 4 result of the withdrawal of the Fourth army behind the Lys we Sixth and Seventeenth armies behind the Scheldt into the Hermann line. On the 17th the Sixth army still stood to the west of Lille, and was to evacuate the town on the night of the 18th, Further to the south the right wing of the Seventeenth, and later the whole of that army, had to conform to this movement, SHAKES UP HIS ARMIES It had been decided that in the event of the occupation of the Her mann line the Boehn army group was to be withdrawn, Its front had now become too narrow, and did not contain suffclent reserve strength (Von Boehn was put in command of the armiés from Soissons to Arras after the defeat on the Marne, push ing in between the crown princes.) ‘The Second army pow fell undex THE SEATTLE STAR—TH |fell back to the position from which were now compelled to withdraw the | * LUDENDORFF in The | Star tomorrow reveals the | panicky state of mind in | which the German govern- ment considered the sec- ond Wilson note the armistice. He tried to in- | on | | ject firmness into the sit- || | | | uation and a demand for | terms, and endeavored to rouse the spirit of the German people. The task was too great for him, in view of the collapse of the || army and people. ! ——______________—4 the Rupprecht army group, and th Nighteenth under that of the German | crown prince. In this group the nth army was taken over by the venth. Here, too, expecially having | rd to the arrangement of rear) communications, there was no longer room for @ separate army. | Gen. von Carlowits took the com mand of the Second army, and Gen. von Marwits received that of the Fifth near Verdun, His chief of staff was Lieut. Col, Wetzell, who had/ hitherto acted as my asnistant. A) special group headquarters waa ea tablinhed for Gen, von Galtwite, In| this case, too, it had proved undeair. | able to burden a group headquarters with the command of an army. j ‘The necessity to economize forces) had led, at the end of September, to | the German crown prince's army group abandoning the Laffaux salient, which head caused us many! lowwes, and withdrawing to the posi: | tion behind the OlseAlsne canal.) which we had occupted after the dis | astrous engagement of October 22, 1st. (The heavy losses he mentions were mostly caused by Michigan and other | troops from the middle northwest, who stormed the almost impregnabk heights north of Solssons.) AMERICANS CRUSH DIVISION On October 2, as had been ar. ranged, the left wing of the Seventh and the right wing of the First army the attack of May 27, bad started. Unfortunately, before this move ment was carried out, one division was, wholly unexpectedly, crushed on the heights northeast of Fismes. The center of the Seventh army held the Chemin des Dames firmly, in the face of many enemy attacks. (it was Americans who swept northeast of Fismes and crushed the division) The defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse, on either side of the Argonne (the Amoricans), had followed a favorable course, in spite of the absolutely overwhelming supe riority of the enemy, which was con- siderably greater here than on the fronts of the two northern army groups, Our leadership waa distin. gulshed for exceptional calm and judgment, and the enemy gnined ground but slowly. ‘The continual and violent assaults on the left wing of the First and on the Third army caused the army group of the German crown prince to|]| decide in the carly days of October) to break off the fight and to with. draw all the troops to the Hunding- Brunbild line, i. ., half way to Laon- Marie Sixrone-Alsne from Rethel up ward to Grand Pre. General head quartera was unable to give this group, which husbanded its men carefully, any now forces, It ap proved the proposal, which was car- ried out as arranged in the days end- ing with October 13. SECOND DIVISION'S GREAT BLOW The army group of the German crown prince began in the early days of October to withdraw the troops be fore Fihetms behind the Suippes. In the night of the 10th-lith the whole front from the Chemin des Dames te | the Argonne wan given up, after strong attacks had been beaten off by the Third army. (It was the great attack of the see ond division in the Champagne, Octo- ber 2-34, and the dashing capture of Mont Blane, the dominating height of the hills east of Rheims, which caused this retirement of the crown prince.) By the morning of October 18, the Seventh, Third and First armios stood ready for defensive fighting in their new and well constructed line, and the evacuation of the ground in front thereof had been almost com- pleted. The engagements of the two lastnentioned armies at the end of September and beginning of October present a fine example of completely successful defensive fighting, of which the leaders of the men may well be proud. The army command ers, von Einem and von Mudra, and their chiefs of staff, von Klewitz and Hasse, once more rendered their country exemplary service. The enemy followed up the retire ment of the German crown prince's army group energetically between w URSDAY, FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET OCTOBER 9, 1919. The Autumn Vogue: Brown Calf Oxfords AA Black Vici Kid Oxfords at $7.50 Pair are also well suited to walking and general wear. Made over English-style’ walking last, with Goodyear welt soles and medium military heels or straight uban heels. Sizes 214 to 8; widths AA to D. Price to D, $8.50 a pair. $7.50 pair. 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The battle extended to the cast bank of the Meuse, also, In spite of their enormous numerical superiority, the attacks of the youth ful American troops broke down with the jest losses ’ ‘Their success on September 26 was merely due to the failure of a Ger- man reserve division, and to the fact that at another point thelr attack. nd let the it be served the convenience of the troops. For example, we lost a number of disinfection stations, serious loss. General headquarters tinticipated a continuance of the attacks in the di- rection of Ghent and Maubeuge, be- tween the Oise and Alsne, and be- tween Meuse, right bank of the Meuse. pected considerable wastage strength and nerves, WAR WEARINESS GROWS At many points we had actually fought with success, and at others the enormous superiority of the en: | which were a he upper Aisne and the the latter extending to the I also ex- in brought him only small The result of the further depended mainly on the maintenance of the men's morale. Every man required to be kept at the front, and to be inspired with the utmost determination. The ar- mistice offer had had an unfavorable effect on the men’s spirits, and war weariness had increased. No stirring call from home came as & counter. blast, and the work of explaining the situation seemed to have been aban- doned there, On this point there were many complaints from the army. In the army and the population would have to show their colors, and seen whether they were really determined to fight, for only thug could we hope to improve the morale of the army, The commands and explanations issued to the troops from Spa were not in themselves suf. was met only by a, division, which. | jctent tho @ brave one,’was very battle-| ‘The intimate connection between worn and had an extended front tolfeeting in the army and feeling at hold. home could never be more clearly On the 17th the position was thus, | perceived than it was in these critical that we had fallen back on the whole} days, ‘The army wanted to know of the front west of the Meuse. On| gofnitely what waa to be expected the right wing the retrograde |trom the people at home. movement was still In progress. A se rious long was the fact that, in fall ing back to the Hermann Hunding. Brunhild position, we had to sacri fice a number of installauons that DE! LAYS PLANS ROY Tho evacuation of the ground be- hind the new position was carried on with all speed. The railways were continually worked to the utmost limit of their capacity, Enormous masses of war material had to be dealt with, involving weeks and months of work, I laid great stress on the impor. tance of thoro preparation for the destruction of lines and bridges, which could not but have its effect on operations, and upon the removal to Germany of our own material. I continually discussed with the chiefs of staffs the problems of evacuation and destruction. We dealt with the populations with the greatest leniency, as always had done, We have statements to this effect from the inhabitants them- selves, It is true that they begged not to be forced to give evidence publicly for us, as they feared opin fon in Paris. A neutral commission (picked by the German command) also came from Brussels to the front, and re- ported on the care we took of the inhabitants as well as of the damhige done to them by the enemy artiliery and airmen, What the population had to suffer were the results of the state of war, and not of the manner in which we carried on the war, This is quite plainly established, The en. tente, however, brought accusations against us in order to influence Wil son further in their direction, NEW LINES ON FRONTIER Further tn the rear we were work- ing hard on the Antwerp-Meuse line, and I had a new line surveyed along the German frontiér, ‘The Italian front was quiet, but there was talk of an imminent en- tente attack. This could only be looked forward to with Increasing anxiety, in view of the poor fight the Austro-Hungarian troops had given in Serbia. In the Balkan peninsula the situa: tion had developed still further to our disadvantage, Bulgaria having sur- rendered to the entente. 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