The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 17, 1919, Page 13

SECOND SECTION —— THE SEATTLE STAR PAGES 18 TO 24 l'W AR’S GRE History Will So Label Conduct of Russian General Rennenkampf;His Perfidy Made Plain by Ludendorff History can show no greater act of treachery than that of | wo had auccecded in assembling on mpf, the Russian general, who held 40,000 men|the battleticld a force nearly ns Rennent in two days’ march of the battlefield while NR Gee Cre po 4 pee ihilated the army of Sdmsonoff at the end of Sep- , 1914. ; . ‘ could give more certain proof of this treachery rff's own account of the battle of Tannenberg. Bee he doce not reveal the reasons why Rennenkampf jpithheld his forces; but he eloquently reveals the conse- quences, yesterday Rennenkampf was contained by a ; peat 10,000 cavalry, while Ludendorff withdrew two rom his front and used them to descend on the TF Sensonof iow was Rennenkampf's chanc ent of the battle. But Rennenkampf—brother eGerman governor of the fortress of Thorn, nephew of of the kaiser, protege of the German czarina and m cabal at Petrograd—had remained inactive. An to his army to advance and Ludendorff would have had off the battle, Samsonoff would have been saved Russians might have moved on to Berlin. treachery was a triumph for German intrigue. thanked him for his teaching In the Protestant church at Allen stein Gen, von Hindenburg and I rendered thanks to Almighty God for this victory STILL PROUD OF 11S IRON CROSS 1 was Cross decorated with ¢ Iron of which I w Hven now exoeedingly proud I think of Liege and Tann my heart swells with pardonat satefaction, The value of the Iron Cross, second class, dwindled in the course of the war, That is quite natural, altho regrettable, But the onter should be worn with pride by anyone who has honorably won it I had not a moment to spare for relaxation, I had to work out the re grouping of the army for further Operations, It was an uncommonly difficult task simultancousty to fin. ish one battle and make plans for whe ral he says of the By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff |removal of the prisoners. Having by The St © Newspaper |Tegurd to the uncertainty of the alt rights reserved.| uation their numbers alone was a nnd | Heavy burden the! On the western front the victorious Progrem of the German arms was still unchecked. Accordingly gen: | eral headquarters considered that they could reinforce the Eighth army | with three army corps from the weet. The telegram announcing the Proposed reinforcements arrived just at the commencement of the battle of Tannenbe Later I wag aaked whether one army corps could be retained In the west, and as I het not asked for reinforcements, I as-| sented. So only two army corps ar. rived, the guard reserve corps, the Eleventh corps and the Fighth cay alry division TEFUL ERROR IN FRANCE The decision to weaken the forces on the western front was premature. but we in the east could not know that, for the roports from the west were favorable, Bat it was particularly fateful that the rein- foreements destined for the eastern front were drawn from the right wing, which was fighting for a deci- any @ teltt Mota: y by PF Belgium, 4 Temained to be done on on Hohenstein, and had pressed the $8 (914) but to give orders} Landwehr severely. The First reserve fer the First army corps to occupy jcorps had come down southwest of In the meantime the) Atienstein— its further advance Ded already made a turning | would close the ring around the Rus ent in that direction. (This sian Thirteenth corpa and thus con corps had broken thru the Rus | clude the whole operation, while the from the west the day be-| First and Seventeenth army corps than 15)cut off the retreat of the other di was the principal | visions, ‘of the large Russian forces | n forces ' around im, 30 miles On the morning of the 29th I de _—— |elded to go to Hohenstein to try and ‘disentangle the congestion caused by the troops getting mixed up. Opera. tions against Rennenkampf's army had to be initiated. whether he ad vanced or stood where he was Still another incident occurred be fore we were certain of victory Early on the 29th, we received a Neidenburg.) Von message by airplane that a hostile Landwehr ,division was | ®*™my corps was marching on Neiden Hohenstein (on the left of Ure from the south, and was near cOFpa). ing the town. It was, therefore, coming up in the rear of the First Teserve corps and Seven loa corps, which, with it» front/ facing north, was fighting the re-|*0n, Instead of from the left wing, treating Russians, Almost at the Which was stronger than was neces. moment we were called up from | °F after the battle in Lorraine had | Neldenburg and informed that hos. been fought. The corps which was! tile shrapnel way falling on the | * have been the third for the east | town. * ern front was left in Lorraine. | Sanegpene = ° Ser Then we were cut off. All avail- (It was the crown prince's army | which he says was left too strong at | ampf, held ble troops were set marching in the while’ he he! re Fires ment we army corps was to }for the 27th, and more especia! a the Forty-first In- (fhe Twentieth had the day before in an Progress on the right of around Tannenbe: of course, : mmy corps (operating against | Demme flank of the Russians) }Moved up west. covered against Bek from Ortelsburg (23 miles | at of Allenstein) to positions the expense of the armies which | were later defeated at the battle of | the Marne. The battle of Lorraine | wns the vain attempt to take Nancy, | which was watched by the kaiser, all prepared to enter the city in tri umph.) | The situation fh Galicia had al ready become threatening. The Rus sian main forces had hurled them. selves on the Austro-Hungarian ar mies and beaten them east of Lem. burg at the end of August. The critical condition of the Aus three miles be-/| Russian Prisoners, and {t was "° | troHungarian army at the end of | at Tannenberg)|easy task to restore order. The! August, opposed by greatly superior Ourselves in the open First reserve corps and the Twen Russian forces, was not to be mix end of the village. A tieth army corps were saasembled understood. Gen, von Conrad, chief Sel telephone con-|along the road from Allenstein to oe the Austrian general staff. in : the First army corps |Hohenstein and the army command| Yis4 quite properly, from hia point} wy away) but no communica-|had thus again at least two corps 6¢ view, that we should croas the! all was possible with the at its disposal, ateee’ Sawele: ert RUSSIANS PRESS But seeing that the Bighth army efron ene were by "O° THE RING HARD |wax still inferior in numbers to that ta cp Saat . of Gen, Rennenkampf, it was impo» com taken, but the Forty-| The battle was drawing to a con- eee decks i es | division had attacked |Clusion. The Third reserve division eve Base . Wight miles cast of ‘Tannen. | #d’ broken thru the enemy lines and @dvance in the direction of Mlawa- im & fog and been driven back. Teached Muschaken, east of Neiden- | ’ultusk could at any time be stopped Which had suffered |>ure. The Russians, retiring thru wd or enna tad idee Smualties, was now holding |the thick woods, tried to break thru| Kampf towards the Allénstein Elbing ‘West of Waplitz and an.|the German ring at several points reread Bi ae beget ye™ eng By : & hostile counter attack At Muschaken, in particular, very bees ve om bd rat wi the A anxiety. I sent an|heavy fighting took place on the ussian Niemen army. ‘here by car to give me a/ 20th, but without In any way in ~— 8 the condition of the di |fluencing the issue of the battle 04 his account was not en-| Gen. Samsonoff shot himself and The Landwehr near | 98 buried near Willenberg without Mive miles west of Waplitz), being recognized. His widow, who making progress. was in Germany in connection with attacked the right ™matters concerning prisoners of war. a ctreutar | 5Y his own energy, and the enemy Pe dec, displayed more hesitation than the & narrow outlet to the | Situation justified, which German cavalry, After giving these orders, I set out for Hohenstein, and on the way went over the battlefield, which made ao deep impression on me. East of Hohenstein our own columns were | getting entangled with masses we went to } | In tomorrow's Star Gen. Lu dendorff tells how he cleared | Kast Prussia of Russians by driving back Rennenkampf's big army, After this battle he was ‘the army was able to trace his @rave bY 4! | hurried to nave the bea | ie ten Aus ’ ag foree, a grave pore might | ocket-which had been taken for! | tring i] TEN, amd, at the best, the battle identification purposes from the body | | ' | 1 |. Now there was|0f the fallen general when he was| 4 i | chance to intervene. buried. @memy made no attack on| The Russian generals who were r division and | t#ken prisoner arrived at Osterode Jap Labor Men Due army did not advance, | 24 reported to Gen. von Hinden b: Bartenwertfer, of the #taft | bUrE in Seattle Oct. 22) ‘Ge Seventeenth army corps, flew| The number of prisoners taken ling across the Pacitic two| the enemy lines, and brought |@nd the amount of booty captured ” ad of schedule, the line Meports of the progress 0 the enemy's rear. are already well known. shima Maru, with members of the the of his} apanese delegation national Labor conf is expected to reach Se The conference Washington, D. C., Oct. Matsunaga, Imperial Japanese con- sul here, has been ordered to rush | the party thru to its destination on time at any expense. In the Japanese delegation are |three accredited conferees, each |with an advisory board, making a total of 51 members, |Arrest Ex-Soldier for Investigation When he walked into the police station to deny he was the man who robbed the Sallee Bros, bakery and other Fremont business houses recently, F, EB. Schultz, 26, was ar- rested by detectives Thursday night land held on an open charge. It is said Schultz has been identified by to Inter- | to The enemy losses in killed and) | wounded, too, were extremely heavy. |The widely circulated report that thousands of Russians were driven the afternoon the situation |into the marshes and there perished to our advantage. The|is a myth; no marsh was to be found ; Feserve ra and later the | anywhere near. 1 Sea nth infantry division, too, | i rae vest ot Hohenstein; Von | ppg Aa gg * ‘3 Landwehr division en-| . yt tr in itself. The enemy| One of the most brilliant battles in to be wavering. Gen.|the history of the world had been 2 Hindenburg wanted go|fought. It had been the achievement eto Muhien of troops which had been fighting fan right into a momentary |for weeks, sometimes unsuccessfully we fteated by Russian prisoners | To the training of our army in peace Mere being taken to the rear in time, alone, did we owe this feat . This incident cre-| The tle was a glorious triumph 28 Unfavorable impression, as|for the generals and their troops, ff spread far to the rear. |indeed, for every officer and man, the evening we went to Oste-|and the whole country. Miles north of Tannenberg).+ Germany and Austria-Hungary re 4n unfortunate mobiliza- | joiced—the world was silent. the civil authorities had| At my suggestion, the battle was y Jett the town. ‘This must|named the Battle of Tannenberg, in eonaiderably increased the an- memory of that other battle long ago a the civil population in which tl Teutonic knights de-| some of his victims, Schultz is an or Were not at all c! ax to how |feated the united Lithuanian and) jv orceag veteran, who lives with ht Stood with the individual| Polish hosts, Is any German, as piea ak Sh16 WYRIEAR ae . Dut there was no doubt that then, ever going to let the Lett, and|“'f #* 4? ; bn Was won. Whether or not 6 Prove @ real Cannae more especially the Pol take ad was | vantage of our misfortune to do us een g ihe Firat army corps| violence? Are centuries of old Ger: orders to send a force to Willen-| man culture to be lost? Mhither the Seventeenth army| I could not rejoice whole-hearted ‘vp Hoe) to proceed. ‘The re-|ly at our mighty victory, for the Russians was to be cut| strain imposed on my nerves by the uncertainty about Rennenkampf’s army bad been too great, All the ea |same, we were proud of this battle. mbure acrons the only |The victory had been brought about se eth to the Ruswans,) by a break-thru, an encircling move i night we learnt further |ment, firm resolution to win and in-| There are 400 small uninhabited Russian Thirteenth | telligent limitation of alma Despite| islands in the New Hebrides group from Allenstein! our inferiority on the eastern front,! off the west coast of Scotland SAGHALIEN CANINE INDUSTRY PROSPERS VLADIVOSTOK, Oct. 17.—Condl- tions in Amur province have im- proved since overthrow of the Bol- sheviks, and reports here are the dog-raising industry, principal occu- pation of the people, is prospering, Movement meant a Junction West and east attac king for Al SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919. EST TREA $ /100 “STILLS” COL, HOUSE IS ‘JAPS IN RAGE |QUEEN’S HOME NOW AN ENGLISH FACTORY ‘TWO WORKMEN: | DON, Oct. 11,—Townley House READY TO TALK ARE CAPTURED © AT DELEGATE »° 222": BURIED ALIVE | | " , ie sities an gran ~ | : : a coach and motor building compan : Says He Is Willing to Tell of | Federal Agents Thwart the Displeased at Selection for na is tobe turned into ‘natu. One Is Killed, Other ts : : | t . turin plan The fine old elma in Paris Experiences Moonshiners’ Operations | World Labor Meet Ithe grounda ere being felled prepara Rescued WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Col, F,| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 17--Be-| TOKYO, Oct. 11 (Delayed) lhoatad and phic rv _ George Gaul, 50, a laborer, living M. House, thru a personal repre | Heved to have thwarted an organize When the Japanese delegation to the + bom 5. e. aia meals Prigpenrst sentative, today informed Chairman | attempt to flood the United sta international labor conference de-/QOATH OF ATHENS Is death sn r Ser ig aun pd — ee rg Bip collet aren “moonshine,” federal officern| parted today for Washington, Dele TAKEN BY STUDENTS.) verely injured in a landslide at an excavation job at Fifth ave. and Co- lumbia st man is in the city hospita to testify before the committees re-|are today continuing their search,| «ate Matsumoto was rorced to ap garding peace negotiations in Paris. |after 100 whisky “stills were taken|Proach the Fushimi Maru tn a pri |vate launch from a distant pier, in Senator Lodge sta he does not} . va . . ° ‘ py and five men and order to avoid an angry mob of|¢ity was taken by 500 students of CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 17.—The late Thursday afternoon. Athenian oath of allegiance to their| Fri- in a raid one or *o , day, at the point of death, Exam- i ‘ “The matter tah Seciaea | oman arrested by federal officers | laborers jAdelbert colle Western Reserve ination of hix body showed that sev- by the committee, Lodge explained, | late yesterday The demonstration was the culms. | University, here | eral ribs had been fractur: Col, House's willingness to appear} Walter C. Miller, understood to be | M#tion of many protests over what) : that his lungs had been pilerc Siac known to Lodge by Dr.|the head of the still manufacturera|%®#, termed the irregular method | Osaka Iron Workers’ union, declared |the shattered bones. Physicians ex- McLean, a personal representative, ; used in selecting the delegates, The|the real psychology of the workers! pressed litte hope for his recovery. who explained, however, that owing of northern California, and Roy L.l/anger centered particularly upon | could not be known by any but by| The slide occurred while the two to the colonel’s illness, it would be| Williams, former liquor salesman,| Matsumoto because he is not him-|the workers themselves. He moved|men were picking loose dirt from the some time before he could come be-|4re held for payment of $5,000 bail. | self a laborer that a delegate be chosen from/|s#ide of the bank, burying both men, fore th mmittee. | Williams in said to have had in hiv] Matsumoto, in an Interview, said|among the manual workers. | Fellow workers and passers by grab- ciinistanrebieds Pomension two dozen “stillx,” and/he would strive earnestly at the} Domaye'xs motion was lost by a|bed shovels and frantically attempted MILWAUKEE, Oct Revenue| federal officers claim he had paid|conference in Washington for the|large majority, whereupon he and|to rescue the men Officer Paul B. Hemy is flooded with | $1,000 for the California sales age applications to serve as prohibition| Most of the “stills” were taken fre sleuths, The word went forth that|the M. & H. Manufacturing ¢ the sleuths must sample all sus-|pany, located in the heart of pleious fluids. businens district here y international eight-hour day. At the Tokyo meeting when dele the| gates were chosen to the labor con- ference, Magonabura Domaye, of the five others left the chamber in anger.| Gaul was buried beneath three feet The gathering finally appointed ajof dirt. He was dead when his res committees of 20, which chose the|cuers reached him. delegates. Matsumoto is a univer-| The body was taken to the public sity man. morgue. Value is One Thing Price Another And where else but FAHEY- BROCKMAN’S can you get both? This is a fact—Upstairs sell- ing saves us money, and in turn we are able to save you $10 on any Suit or Overcoat. That’s reasonable argument, isn’t it? Fall Suits and Overcoats $20 to $40 Fit Guaranteed Arcade Building Second Ave., Over the Rhodes Co. Alterations Free Largest Clothiers in the Northwest Portland Store Raleigh Building