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RAN NETWORK OF RAILWAYS HELPED STEM RUSSIAN HORDES orff faced a desperate situation when he went from|stroyed it again tn the summer of) 3 in Fast Prussia in September, 1914, to rescue crane we repaired it once i d remnants of the Austrian army and save Silesia, |" pycre wore other extonsive works tts vital coal fields and industries, from invasion, te be conelad Gut, an Ser eneseee d Duke Nicholas, despite the two blows dealt in East |» conversion of the wide Russian} was concentrating an ever more formidable army. | Rane hag oe a err ee the broad Vistula he was gathering some 1,200,000 rere i onnenne rene es phos which were to sweep thru the bend of that river in) paiiway and d - 8 were accomplished. » Kieloe, and later to F cend upon the rear of the Austrians and upon dom, was ready considerably sooner | it nl anticipated. The ex sion of dorff’s problem was to reach the Vistula before this|' Vienne Wai Une, ould cross, at the same time stirring the Austrians to hong Paton Rie rag ease ts to regain their lost morale and ground, In his|domek, in the direction of Koliusekt he was favored by the network of strategic railways | station, was begun and speedily fn Germany had long ago established on the Polish fron-|""° ia beset ie ah i anticipation of just such movements. He was able| ctabtishing several branch lines, But trate his forces and start them forward before the| we were not able to complete the duke could complete his preparations. bridge near Sieradz on the Kalise-| ri) baitle which now began was fought on a front of al-| » second, w conc y Lod line, and in that way secure 250 miles, stretching from Warsaw southeast to the|\'0, Communication | petween the ithians, with the Germans on the north and Austrians! \ Ole" “e4 German ratiwaye on south. This installment shows how Ludendorff gained| ‘Thanks to the untiring work of a, but was suddenly forced to change his plans by "ever! men on my salt, Major ians, who debouched from Warsaw and threatened Vrerehe! and Catpts. von Waldow and , Sperr, the mmunications with the oping movement from the north, rear were soon in shipshape order. a, ae oe All difficulties were overcome | promptly that operations did not suf-| “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” i=": | By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff |HAD To USE DISPATCH RIDERS by The Star thra special arrangement Copyrighted, 2918, by Harper he demands for technical mater # Great Hritain by jal for purposes of communication ge in Canada and/ were heavier than in Bast Prussia rights rose - } tes ps Russia ond (*/rne Russians had destroyed the few Bi day made it more clear to me/and details, This campaign is dis |*!*ting telegraph wires and cut Plan of operations (in the tinguished by more vicissitudes than | COW" the poles. A few Hold telegraphs German-Austrian advance any other, and therefore deserves one | ¥!" re laid, and we had to man and Galicia early in Octo |of the first places in the annals of |\€° %* best we could with these must be for the Austro-| war, | We were not then #0 spoilt as wo army to seek a decision} yacn gay | became later, after the establishment . ; day presented the headquar- | - ; ip ee ore of the Vistula |°1%on- Theyrubordinate commanders |‘"Tal' trent means of communica. had to act ir 0 yo nat mewhat. This would only |." ‘) “ct op their cre aetponaiPll| tion was motor ears and dispatch be A ch eo latte . le i the “agg f Pre amen junkhown, and meant hard fighting marwaet intone wae cone pinch Vistwi og Pr exgas vt /and cautious withdrawals, Our weak |}itre again I was alware muscemtal mreng stand on west forces were separated by long dis + poe as he might do at any moment in getting a grasp of the situation | tances. But all were governed bY | sng transmitting ordere in time. pended to a great extent on the next | ie ee tna the iden at |tremely unfavorable for us, Even |layer of mud a foot high. ustrian army was mostly composed | | The troops and road./t@ full meaning of this brought th one part Wizard Oil and) When we returned. in the latter halt Austrian army, the First, Third and the mixture up! seal for civilisation. the Wisioka. (The combined advance i rious resiftance. By the Sth the Aus | important from our point of | Prremyal. On October 4 the Austrian First | |rifle brigades near Klimintof and First Austrian army now shifted ite - southeast of Lodz) station line, and lof Lodz, Retween Kalisz and Thorn | also used them on our line of com tinuous reports that Siberian army | along the right bank of the We had an impression thet great This | confirmed me in my view of our own | between with the McClure Newspaper fr 1 ts | utehingon & Company and the London Times Mariel; im Italy by Fratelli Treves for France, Belgium, Me Pee this plan during and conference at Neu Sandec. be altered, both=in scope tunnel had a history. In No it was destroyed by us. The Russians rebuilt it, but they de ALWAYS 19° SAME QUALITY SAME SIZE oul UNOWAS oto SHINO E@ be too weak to resist him | “og a teen or aes aim. do |, The inhabitants gave us no trouble. | “ein gla nag They were docile and @id not resist step. The indescribable state of the ing them up for service against |roads and the bad weather were ex jthe Russians, which had frequently | been mooted, proved impracticable | |the great high road from Cracow to| . | Warsaw was knee deep. It had 04 Fe soennd Fvish leghen of the The work required for restoring | Of Galician Poles, try Srv, |the roads was enormous and labor “TY haul — influenza epidemics epeag | mending companies worked indefati. |Home to me. ‘and throat several times | gably and accomplished a great deal.| OP October 4 the main force of the Water, using an stomizer.|of October, the roads had a tetally| Fourth armies, began the forward an atomizer, gargle | aiterent aspect. We had done a great | movement; on the Sth they crossed treatment sets up an| “i | was now on a frogt of more than 200 inst| RAMLWAYS ARE miles.) The Fe Offered no se | QUICKLY REBUILT fead) The conditions on the railway were trian forces had reached the river with| dually diMeult. The Kielce line, the jan and forced their way into | Fe en eee uecho™. SO RAPID ADVANCE IN POLAND i} jarmy and the right wing of the Ninth army were engaged with Russian Opatoff (near the Vistula in Poland), land let them off very lightly. The leenter of gravity to Sandomir (on jthe Vistula near the San), whilet the right wing of the Ninth army con: | tinued its advance toward the Vie en }tula above its confluence with the San. | The Twentieth army corps reached jthe region northwest of Kielce, and |the Seventeenth army corps, after a jatight engagement, reached Radom miles from the crossing of the y tula) and concentrated there. the Tomaszof-Kolluski (25 miles ij — - the Eighth cavalry division was somewhere near Rawn (30 miles onst jour frontier defense troops slowly pushed their way into Poland. We munications. Meanwhile we were recriving con. | corps were being detrained at War. saw and that strong forces were pushing Vistula north of its junction with the | San. | enemy preparations were in prepara-| Pa tion against the Ninth army. plans, We had to win and hold the Vistula line, while the Austrian army obtained a definite decision by attack-| ing and defeating the Russians on| the San HOPED TO CAPTURE WARSAW In particular, our first task was to reach the prospective crossing places between the confluence of the San and Ivangorod, and to isolate and, if luck were with us, seize the bridgehead on the near side of the fortress, Then we were to watch the line of the Vistula between Ivangorod and Warsaw. Finally we had to strike a blow at the Siberian army corps assembling south of Warsaw and, in so doing, invest, and if pos sible capture, the fortress. The Ninth army alone was too eak to carry out these numerous ks. The Austrian First army shoes 50 times with a box of | chinse would cost Foe @5.00 er sere. | add to appear- | makes Fr geo Be ceo as the the surface, keep the leather B. to give your shoes good care when they BRISCOE 1919 The owner of this car lives in Portland, Ore. He must sell car this J} week. He is storing car with AUTO BARGAIN MARKET, 701 East Pine St. Tel. East 340. This car is almost new and is the best buy in Seattle. Ask for Mr. Grattain. THE SRATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, OCTORER 22, 1919 Dyers and ’ Cleaners Adopt AMERICAN PLAN Because Union Local, No. 71, Journeymen Tailors of America, broke their contract with us and went on strike for increases of existing high wages and new rules and conditions of work which would, if granted, greatly increase the cost of cleaning and dyeing to the public, the Dyers and Cleaners’ Club has been forced to end negotiations with the union and to adopt the American plan of operating our plants. From this time on, we shall employ our workers without regard to wheth- er or not they are members of any union; we shall deal with our employes di- rect, not with a paid agent or with representatives of any union. We can no longer submit to a domination of radical leadership which has made it almost impossible to do business in the past few months and which threatens to take the control of our business entirely out of our hands. As Americans, we stand upon our right to do business and upon the right of every Amer- ican to earn a living by honest work, without interference or intimidation, without permis- sion from any self-constituted body which seeks to monopolize and control employment. We Invite Our Employes to Return We will welcome back all of our old employes who wish to return and work under American conditions. We guarantee to those who return that there will be no reduction of wages, and that they will be pro- tected in their work from interference of any kind. Those who fail to return will have their places filled by any willing and competent to work in the dyeing and cleaning business) OUR PLANTS ARE NOW. OPEN TO ALL WORKERS. As our drivers did not make demands or strike, and as we havea contract with the drivers’ union, we shall live up to all of the conditions of that contract, if the drivers return to work. WE GUARANTEE TO ALL WHO COME TO WORK FOR US AT THIS TIME THAT THEY WILL NEVER BE DISCHARGED AT THE DICTATES OF ANY LABOR UNION. THEM IN THEIR AMERICAN RIGHT TO EARN A LIVING. DYERS AND CLEANERS CLUB CAPITOL DYE WORKS CITY DYE WORKS | would have to be called on, too, and) threw be brought up considerably further after very sey horth. The Ninth army was now deflected sharply northward. The Seventeenth army corps, under Gen. von Mack. ensen, received orders to advance on Warsaw. Gen. Fromme! s group was put under his orders. Tho Twentieth army corps was to watch Ivangorod and prevent any crossing of the Vistula north of the fortress. The Guard reserve corps re ceived similar instructions with re- gard to the crossings of the Vistula south of the fortress up to Novo \exandria inclusive, The Landwehr corps was to hold the Vistula line south of this point, AUSTRIANS LEND CAVALRY The Eleventh army corps was in- rporated in the Austrian First my in order to stiffen it. It was to hold the Vistula line south to Aano- pol, and attempt @ crossing itself if ind when the San had been crossed further south. Gen. von Conrad weed two cavalry divisions at our peal, of which the third was ai under the command of the Pwentieth army corps for observa- ion work on the Vistula, ond the Seventh attached to Gen, Frommel's orps While these measures were being urried out, sevege fighting took lace at various points. Seventeenth Army corps ed sharply to the left from Ra- om thru Bialobrshegi, and as early + October 9 encountered Siberian who were concentrating at nd to the east of Grojec, After cavy fighting the enemy were hrown back on Warsaw. Gen, von lnckensen followed close on their els, and drew Gen, Fromme! in on is left flank. Barly on the 12th he as close to the south side of the rtress, One brigade of the Twentieth army rp4 engaged the enemy near Kos: nice, north of Ivangorod, where he ud crossed with weak forces, It was ot successful in driving him back, The Guard reserve corps attacked ostile forces which had effected a crossing near Novo Alexandria, and |the Landwehr o ps took part Further to the south the Russians had not yet crossed the Vistula. Our headquarters were at Radom, | FINDS PLAN OF GRAND DUKE On tho battlefield of the 9th an or. | der was found on the body of a dead lor wounded Russian officer which gave us information of the greatest | importance, | The army order gave us a clear |picture of the enemy's intentions. |The grand duke’s plan of operations was conceived on a grand seale, ex ceedingly dangerous from our point of view. Far more than 36 Russian corps {over 1,200,000 men), densely massed to the right, were to sweep over the Vistula between Warsaw and the con. fluence of the San, which was itself to be crossed further south by other sources. Five divisions of Macken sen's groups had to deal unaided with 14 hostile divisions, The grand duke projected a strong encireling movement from the north against the Ninth army, combined with a simultaneous frontal attack against it and the Austrian arm while he held the heights eas Przemys! with hia left wi, To carry out this operation the grand duke drew on part of Rennenkapf's army, also, If this plan suecteded the victory of Russia, on which the entente had counted in their strategical calcula- tions, was assured. _ T had not yet given up hope that the Austrian army would beat the Russians east of Przemysl and cross the San, Yet the forces Holding the line north of the confluence of the San needed some, tho not necessarily large reinforcements, and further concentration toward Warsaw and Ivangorod was tmperative, At the same time the Landsturm of the Fifth, Eleventh and Seven: teenth army corps, which had marched into Northwest Poland, were brought forward to the lower Bzura, ‘The communications in our rear were subjected to a special examina DIXIE DYE WORKS HARRISON DYE WORKS PANTORIUM DYE WORKS QUEEN ANNE DYE WORKS were made for the destruction of the railways, among other things, by placing in readiness an immense amount of explosives. While from October 15 Gen, von Mackensen was defending himself south of Warsaw against strong en emy attacks, the Russians attempted agnin and again to cross the Vistula further south. It was found neces sary to push forward the 37th in fantry division of the Twentieth army corps to Kalvaria. This division prevented the river from being crossed at this point, but the enemy corps, which had managed to place some of its units on the left bank, came out of the engagement without serious losses, The division remained in that neighborhood and was also placed under Gen. von Mackensen's command. ‘The 4ist infantry division and the Austrian third cavalry division were INDIGESTION CAN'T STAY Stomach Pain, Sourness, Gases, and Acidity ended with “Pape’s Diapepsin’’ Outof-order stomachs feel fine at once! When meals don't fit and you belch gas, acids and undigested food. When you feel Indigestion pain, lumps of distress in stomach, heart- burn or headache, Here is instant relief. Just as soon as you eat a tablet or two of Pape’s Diapepsin all the dyspepsia, indigestion and stomach distress caused by acidity will end, ‘These pleasant, harmless tablets of Pape’s Diapepsin always put sick, upset, “acid stomachs in order at once and they cost so little at drug stores, |miles southeast of Warsaw), ‘The Guard reserve corps had taken jover the investment of Ivangorod (65 miles southeast of Warsaw). This |corps attempted to throw back the/ jenemy forces which were still on the| jleft bank of the Vistula near Kos- Jenice, and in this task received as-| |sistance from a brigade of the Elev enth army corps, which had been placed at its disposal by the army command, SLEEPLESS NIGHT OF HORROR I shall never forget the battle near Kosjenice, What actually happened was that four brigades were taken into the narrow bend of the Vis tula, which had become a swamp owing to heavy rain. The brigade in front of Ivangorod had been thrown back by a strong Russian sortie, I was afraid that the Russian attack might strike into the flank of those four brigades, which were very cramped in their defense, as they had no room to maneuver. I did not sleep a wink that night. The next morning the position before | Ivangorod did not appear so danger ous. As the Russians attacked, the fighting in the marshes near Kos- Jenice continued, All the troops who participated in these engagements look back on them with horror, In consequence of the northerly march of the Guard reserve corps, |the Landwehr corps had taken over |the duty of watching the crossing near Novo Alexandria, While the battle at Kosjenice was in full swing I received an airplane report that strong enemy forces had crossed the Vistula south of Ivango: rod, also, If this were the fact our position would have been exceedingly serious. The army command had no reserves of any kind at its disposal; everything had been thrown in, It was lucky for us that this report je Vistula had sv proved false. The aviator had wrong ly identified the battlefield near Kos- Jenice as lying south of Ivangorod. Nothing particular was reported from the Landwehr corps, The Rus- sians had been prevented from ‘throwing @ bridge across the river WE SHALL PROTECT UNION DYE WORKS UNITED DYE WORKS him back over the Vistulaltion, for » retreat might only t00| posted at the mouth of thé Pilica and/at Kasimiers, south of Novo Alex: fighting, in which easily be necessary. Preparations | southwards to Kosjenice (36 and 55|®Ndria, and higher up t) was awaitigg events, Our plan of secu ne a 1 War ‘saw and Ivangorod mained in the hands of the enemy, and he had effected a crossing, tho a bad one, at Kosjenice, north of Ivangorod. ¥———_————________i__» In tomorrow's Star Gen. 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