The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 15, 1919, Page 11

GENERAL LUDENDORFF’S CAPTURE OF LIEGE | WON HIM THE COMMAND OF HUN ARMY Indendor/f"s daring leadership, - tbe —¢ of Liege| mstance that pointed him toward the pnw adel eae crews He had brought himself into the Umee| ata cri eritical moment. military chiefs had counted on defeating France| German wld mobilize. They thought the Russians| cor before Russia petent as they had ag” n themselves in the were inco the Russian mobilization Japanese ’ surprise, war, To thet two Russian armies appeared on the East Prussian and sniashed the German covering forces called for a man of dash and knowledge of So Ludendorff, who had formerly been chief of wenn of the great general staff, was called from his a oy hen post as quartermaste roe eral in Von Buelow’s' mm, and sent to save East Prussia, “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff iy The Star thru special arrangement with the Me S Copyrighted, 1919, b Og Britain by } Beix and Variet ; y at) Tights reserved for France, Helgiu ‘countrion nary with me for calling you gall to the east. (Cen away from a poet In which you had accompanied the) are perhaps om the threshold of favasion of Belgium as far & decisive action, which, please 4 of the Sambre near! God, Will be conclusive. This ts yet another sacrifice you are” | called upon to make for the Fatherland. The kalser, too, has confidence in you. Of course, you will not be made responsible for what has already happened, but with your energy you can prevent: the worst from happening. 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Any neht of serving my empere fathertand, in a position of poem responsibility at a most crit- jeal Juncture, Unde the leadership of Gen, von Moltke, I had taken part in many general staff tours of inspection, and had there gained deep insight into the art of war on a large seule, My new position offered me an oppor tunity, tho only in a comparatively jamalt field of action, of proving | Whether I understood how to apply jthe teachings of that great teacher of the al staff, Gen. Count von | Schieffen. No soldier could have had a better chance given him, But I was deeply distressed that my ap hointment was the outeome of such & serious situation for my count | My patriotic feelings and heartfelt | convictions epurred me to action | Within quarter of an hour 1 was Jon my way In a ear to Coblenz, | 1 passed thra Wavre. Only the day | before it had been a peaceful town. Now it was in flames, Hore, also, the populace had fired on our troops, | | That was my farewell to Belgium. | GERMANS V |IN FULL RETREAT | 1 arrived at Coblena at 6 o'clock jin the evening, and immediately re-| ported to Gen. von Moltke, who waa} looking tired. Here I | n learned fur-| | ther details of the situation in the} jeast,. On August 20 the Eighth | jarmy had attacked the Russian Nie | }men army, under Gen, Rennen-/ |kampt near Gumbinnen (75 miles} east of Konigaberg). This offensive | had, in spite of initial successes, not rewulted in any decisive vietory, and | had to be broken off. Since then the army between Lake | Mauer and the river Pregel was tn | fut retreat wostwards over the river | Angerapp, and to the north of the Pregel, behind the river Deime (25 | miles east of Konigubers) the first | tine of defense of the fortress of | | Konigsberg. The First army corps eras to be brought by rail from sta- tions west of Insterburg to Goasler- | shaussen, and be placed at the dis posal of the army command, while | the Third reserve division was to be taken from Angerburg to the Allen stein-Hohenstein front (75 miles |south of Konigsberg) to reinforce | the Twentieth army corps | | The line of lakes from Nikolaiken | to Lotaen (between the two Mussian armies), which was only slightly | fortified, was in our anda; only weak enemy forces had approached it Gen, von Scholtz, commanding the | Twentieth army corps, was in charge | on the southern frontier of Bast Proasia. In the course of continuous engagements with the Russian Na- rew army, under Samaonoff, he had) concentrated around and to the east of Gilgenburg (5 miles southwest jot Allenstein), bis own divisions, the Seventieth landwehr brigade (which was still under his command) and part of the garrisons of Thorn and the other Vistula fortresses. ‘Th fenemy was pressing him very heav ily: | {OPPOSED PLAN TO, | |GO BACK ‘There was a possibility of the two enemy armies advancing on both | sides of the chain of lakes. General! von Moltke informed me that the Eighth army was proposing to evac- uate the whole country east of the Vistula; only the fortresses were to retain their war garrisons and be defended. The Eighth army had no doubt | adopted this plan in the expectation of a speedy decision in the west |when East Prussia could be recon-| lquered with the help of reinforve [ments from the weet, and the invad- }ing army driven back. This scheme | jhad often been practiced by Count von Shieffen in strategical maneu: vers. If the assumption was cor. rect, te decision of the Eighth army to spare itself for later operations was sound. | But it did not allow for the reall |tles of war, nor did it take into ac jcount the immense responsibility of exposing part of one’s country to in vasion. The amount of suffering in | Micted on countries that form the actual theatre of operations, en | under the most humane conditions of warfare, has once more been brought home to humanity by this world war. e Aas eventa were shaping, retreat be |hind the Vistula would have «pelt jruin, We should not have been able to hold the Vistula line against the numerically superior forces of the Russians, and it would certainly have been impossible for us to sup port the Austrian army in Septem. | ber; its collapse would then have fol lowed as a matter of course. The situation, as I, found #, was Indeed | very serious, but after all, "the prob- lem was not insoluble. FOL STRONG ARMY FOR ATTACK At my request, orders were im mediately sent to the east front fix ing the retreat of the main body of 4 STOMACH 0. K. Indigestion, Acidity, Sourness and Gases ended with “'Pape’s Diapepsin”’ Millions in needless to be digestion, stomach, Diapepsin neutralize wive relief at once When your meals don’t fit and you feel uncomfortable, when, you belch gases, acids or raise ‘sour, undigested food. When you fee! lumps of indigestion pain, heart- burn or headache, from acidity, just eat a tablet of Pape’s Dia pepsin and the stomach distress is gone The cost is #o little, The bene- | fits so great, You, too, will be a Diapepsin enthusiast afterwards, of people know that it bothered with in dyspepsia or a disordered A few tablets of Pape's acidity and jeastern front | morning. | behind the Vistula had been aban: | |1 could only answer that it had not most people, he had taken it for | granted. (The story circulated by German avails troops from the garrisons of Thorn, Kulm, Graudens and Marienburg, were to go to Stras bure and Lautenberg miles apart near the Polish border about 65 miles Allenatein). ‘These southwest of garrisons were composed only of landwebr and landsturm formations Thus, in the southwest part of East Prussia (on a front of about 76 to 100 miles, as shown by Gen, udeudorffs account of positions), a strong army was formed, which could undertake an offensive, while the northern group elther contin ite retreat In a southwesterly potion or could be brought straight down south to assist in the action against the Narew army, Of course an actual decision as to the plan to be adopted could only be given on the spot. The Russians ould not be driven off without a fresh engagement No steff officer would miss such a chance of turning to good advant- age the fact that thelr two armies esi separated from each other, | PROUD MEMORY Or THE KAISER I alno reported to his majesty the emperor. His majesty, who was very calm, apoke seriously of the eastern situation, and deeply regret ted that part of the German father land should suffer invasion by the enemy, He was mindful of the suf. forings of his people. The kaiser decorated me with the order Pour le Merite, which had been awarded me for my work at Liege, and spoke ap- preciatively of me. All my life this ocension will be a proud, if sad, memory At 9 o'clock In the evening T left Coblens in a special train for the Shortly before my departure I learned that Gen. von Hindenburg had accepted the post of command- erin-chief, and would beard the train at Hanover at 4 o'clock in the The general was on the station at Hanover, and 1 reported to him. It was the first time we had met. All other versions belong to the realin of | fiction. I explained the situation | shortly, and we then went to bed. } About 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 23rd of August, we arrived at Marienburg, where the army com mand awaited us. The situation had! changed and the decision to retire | doned. It was intended to hold the line of the river Passarge. Gen. | Gruert, chief of-staff of the Eighth | army, and LieutCol, Hoffmann | were responsible for this change of plan. Our reception in Marienburg was | anything but cheerful It seemed | like entering another world to come | into this depressing atmosphere | after Liege and the rapid advance in | the west. But things secon changed, afd the general atmosphere im- proved. NO LONG EPARED PLAN Maj. Valdivia, tho distinguished | Spanish military attache during the! war, asked me on his first viait to} headquarters in Posen in October, | 1914, whether the battle of Tanne berg had been fought according a long conceived and prepared plan. He was greatly surprised, for, like propaganda, after the battle, when Uindenburg was being made the na- tional hero, was that this general for years spent much of his time among | the East Prussian lakes, and was so obsessed with hin plans for cam-| paigns then that he was forced into retirement, Finally, as the story was told, in the moment of desperation he was called back to use his know! edge and save the country. when he brought forth one of bis long-4made plans and won the victory) A plan of campaign can and must be made a long time ahend. Battles in a war of positions demand similar | treatment, but the rapid succession of events in a war of movement bring about equally rapid changes in a commander's views and impres-| sions. Tle has to be guided by feel- ing, intuition, ‘Thus the military science becomes an art, and the sol- dier a strategist Gradually, during the period from August 24 to 26, the battle plan took | shape in all its details. The great question was whether it would really be possible to withdraw the First reserve corps and the Seventeenth army corps from their positions fac- ing Rennenkampf, so as to unite them with other units of the Bighth army, for action against the Narew army HOW RENNENKA: HE! Then there would be no alterna tive but to withdraw the First re lief corps and the Seventeenth army corps in a more southwesterly direc tion towards Wormditt (30 miles of north of Allenstein), while part of the Bighth army Narew army, in the defeating it west the other held up the hope, with luck, of somehow. ‘The idea of a stiff defense of some line east of the Vistula, if necessary, also entered into our calculations We discovered by degrees that Rennenkampf was advancing only slowly. The two army corps could therefore be gradually deflected in their retirement thru the Barten oar het Machines Can? Equal With Wk paper you can roll the best “Bull” Durham cigarettes. GENUINE aS ouronarce Cigarettes that cost you least 4 Cigarettes that please you most’ It’s real good sense to roll your own! 66 99 D } It depended solely on Rennen- kampf himself, for if he knew how to make the most of his success at 7 Gumbinnen, and advance quickly, MY LAN WOULD BE UN- WORKABLE. 4 TOBACCO 10¢ steinGerdauen line, in a sharp southerly direction to Bischofsburg: ure army corps at the ,beginning of the war was reckoned at 40,000 men, but Next, the Seventeenth army corps, | Since the First relief corps and Sev- | protected by the First cavalry divis-/enteenth army corps had passed | ion and the First relief corps, was|thru severe fighting their number moved south via Schippenbell to| Was doubtless much smaller. Their Bischofatein. Aw soon as it had| Movement from in front of Ren- passed behind the First relief corps, | H¢nkamyf placed them on the right and the Twenty-#ixth advanced from | flank of Samsonoff's Narew army, Bischotstein to Bischofsburg, the @t the nearest point about 20 miles First army corps itself moved, south |nerth of east, of Allenstein,) of Schippenbell, in the direction of )———————~ Seeburg, (Normal war strength of German 114 3d Ave,; downtown, 913 2d Ave. e In tomorrow's Star Gen, dorff tells of the plans for the battle day's fighting, in which one of | | his army corps broke thru the || Russian line and began the ad- [| vance which led to the disaster to Samsonoff. The litchi is now being grown in south- Let's go eat at Boldt’s—uptown, | fruit, ern Florida, | Luden- )|!" and the first desperate nut, China's favorite | ‘The fastest swimmers cover a mile or 4 minute Out of the high rent district, per- sonal service and moderate ing enable me to make you this offen navertis- Dr. J. 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