The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 23, 1919, Page 7

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Ask our coming to our office, be sure Two factors caused Ludendorff to lose the battle of the Vistula, fought on a 250-mile line from October 4 to 27, 1914, in an effort to hold the Russian armies far from the weak! eastern frontier of Germany. | First—He found in the Siberian troops foes worthy to! |meet his well-trained veterans, | Second—The Austrian command blundered and the Aus-| trian troops were unable to defeat the Russians. Just as Ludendorff had seized the line of the Vistula, in ||| the hope of holding it against the 1,200,000 troops the grand} duke was concentrating, the Russian commander delivered a blow from Warsaw with the Siberians, It went well. | Al possible German troops were sent to help hold this blow at a vital point, and the Austrians had to take over more of |the upper Vistula, including the Ivangorod bridgehead.| Mackensen could not hold the Siberians and had to try to form a new line 50 miles from Warsaw, Just as he was doing this, the Austrian disaster came, General Conrad had a brilliant scheme to let the Russians} cross at Ivangorod, then to fall on them and destroy them.| |As Ludendor{f sadly remarks, “They had allowed too many | to cross.” The whole line had to go back as quickly as possible jelose to the German frontier. The troops coined that phrase |which was to figure so often later in German war talk— |“strategic retreat.” “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff Published by The Star thru spectal arramgement: with the MoClure Newspaper Syndicate. Copyrigh 1919, by Harper and Brothera All rights reserved, britain by Mute ix and Mariel reserved for A & Company and the London Times ly by Fratelli Treves; in Canada and » Belgium, Holland, Kussia and the The Austrian army to the south of ;and more doubtful. the Vistula had not suceseded in/as the night of October 17 and 18, i crossing the river San, or gaining | was the Russians who crossed the any ground east of Preemys! (Octo: | San, and thus did what the Austrian ber 16, 1914), Gen. von Conrad was/army had not been able to accom none the less still hopeful of success. | plish. | ihe longer the decision south of | General von Mackensen marched |the river San was delayed the more)away from Warsaw tn the night of | jurgent became the need of reinforo-|the 18th19th. ‘The movements, [ing the left wing of the Ninth army, | which had long been prepared, were | | in view of its increasingly critical wit: | carried out in exemplary order. The | / uation. enemy took no booty, and it was only (This wing of the German army | after a time that he took up the pur jwas being heavily attacked near | suit vigorously. Warsaw by Siberian riflemen and) on October 25 and 26 General von other Russian troopa. Mackensen | Mackensen, the Landwehr corps had only five divisions to hold 14/(whict: had arrived in time) and the| waian divisions which were trying |Thirty.seventh infantry division | jto smash the flank and envelop the| were attacked very violently in thelr | All other available | new positions north of Nove-Miasto| |tling to prevent Russian troops from | the Pilica river and 35 miles from the | crossing the Vistula to the southeast | Vistula), The left wing had to ewing | ot Warsaw.) [back In the direction of Lodz, and/ | This question of reinforcement wa8|the ‘Thirty.seventh infantry division clonely affected by events on the $8./haq to be withdrawn to the south If progress were made there, mej bank of the Pilica. could stand a few setbacks near War-| .), AUSTRIAN TRICK Prva not, we should be crushed| Deowes FATAL of the rest, we remained masters | would save the situation foe's while; [of the situation in the following days |but reinforcements were mot to be! heavy fighting But the attack across the Pilica was outaide the oem a eee proces eae vai |{DoUndS of possibility. The Austrians | larmy corps to Ypres and Fifteenth |"ffered a groat reverse near Ivan- reserve corps to East Prussia, where |S0T0d and retreated to Radom. |the situation had become more seri-| Se things had turned out as our berm |headquarters had feared. The Aus | ‘The army command proposed that |{fian First army, which had been on the Guard reserve, the Landwehr and |Stard before Ivangorod since Octo- the Eleventh army corps, defending |%¢F 1, had allowed too many Rus the line of the Vistula, should be| Slams to cross the Vistula; instead relieved by Austrian troops and | driving the enemy back they were | brought up north; or, better atill, that |@Fiven back themselves, | Austrian troops should be employed| With the Guard reserve corps we | |to reinforce our left wing, in which | 4 our best to prevent disaster on case the German troops, which were | th Austrian left; but in vain... The now familiar with the Vistula sector, ener ~ eh nag a ee could stay there, thus guarantecing |Alexandria vango Lo the antety: of the Vistula line, Be Eton, Scag at the mouth bid | sides, these relief operations would |take up precious time, and the situa-| 1 only learned casually of the Aus | | om permitted of no delay. trian First army's decision to fall| | back on Radom. Lieut. Colonel Hoff. man immediately entered a protest on behalf of the Guard reserve corps Gen. von Conrad was alsa. con.|The Austrian First army managed vinced of the neceasity of reinfore |to hold on for a few hours, which ling the battle line north of the river| Was something to be thaakful for. Pilica, but he most emphatically ve-| Help had been sent to the Guard re- toed the utilization of Austrian |*¢Tve corps, but an attack over the| | troops, with the exception of two cay-|Pilica in a north-south direction was | \}lalry divisions. We gen-| not to be thought of, as the troops eral headquarters and his majesty | protecting its right flank were giv- |the kaiser approached the emperor, |!ne way. | Francis Joseph, who returned a fa | The Eleventh army was jvorable reply, andthe relief of the | moved by forced marches to the re- three Prussian corps was ordered. [ion northeast of Lodz, to support By Gen. von Conrad's orders the | the left wing of Mac group. | exchange was to be carried out by — parts of the First army, in front of Ivangorod, in such » way as to leave |the crossings open. The Austrian | troops were then to throw the pursu- ling Russians back into the Vistula, | We strongly opposed this plan, but | Fate was to take its course. The Austrian infantry divisions of the First army which were to relieve the Landwehr corps and the Guard || | reserve corps on the Vistula came up |slowly. The relief of ail the units |] | could not be accomplished before the 20th. In the meanwhile the situation before Warsaw had reached a point at which a decision was urgently called for. The enemy's developing | | movement became more obvious from | day to day, and his pressure round NovoGeorgievsk and Warsaw was| | continually increasing. | WHAT WOULD THE COUNTRY SAY? A period of intense anxiety and prehension began. To accept bat- |tle would have been too dangerous. | It became, evident that an hour would soon come when Gen. von Mackensen and his group would have to be | withdrawn from in front of Warsaw. |But this would have to be done! |neither too early nor too late, It | was indeed a difficult decision. What would the country say? | On the evening of October 17 1 |considered that the moment had ar rived to order the retirement, I asked Field Marshal von Hindenburg to withdraw Gen. von Mackensen's group from Warsaw west-southwest to the Rawa-Skierntwice Lowlez line. There was hope that there would just be time to bring the relieved | Landwehr corps into line north of| the Piliea between Nove-Miasto and In fact, as early | } | KAISER GOES OVER HEAD |OF AUSTRIAN COMMANDER an FREDERICK & NELSON FIrTH AVENUE AND PINE STERET | | Featured Offering of Boys’ Extra- Knickerbocker Suits at $11.50 NLY 50 Suits are included in this special purchase, but they will give fifty boys unusual oppor- tunities to purchase at great saving. | y these movements a new front would have been offered to the Rus sian attack, It 1s true that its left | wing would only have been insuffi ciently protected by Landsturm and cavalry, but it was possible, if neces- sary, to withdraw it. If the Rus-| sians took the bait it was within the bounds of possibility to attack them in flank across the Pilica east of Nove-Miasto, using the Twentieth and the Hleventh army corps and the Guard reserve corps, which would already have been coneentrated there, or could not be far away, A decision might thus be secured. By these operations we would gain The Suits are well tailored, coats in belt- ed style, knicker- bockers fully lined. Sizes 8 to 17. Each Suit with an extra pair of knicker- ¢ qHE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1619. LUDENDORFF TELLS OF TRAP | again, | battle of Lemberg. |soldiers, was carried out, according | tunity of resuming the offensive, but | tack. | FREDERICK & NELSON. The #ituation had entirety changed owing to the Austrian army having retired from Ivangorod to Radom. A strong forward movement on the whole of the Vistula front was to be expected from the enemy, We doubt- ed whether the Austrian troops would be able to resist them, South of the Vistula, too, the Austrian po: sition had become increasingly critical, PUTS THE BLAME ON AUSTRIANS All hope of a favorable decision by force of arma had finally van ished. If the Ninth army stood where it was it would ultimately be sur rounded and defeated, The destruc tion of the Austrian army would then follow as a matter of course. The Ninth army had to be with drawn in order to be able to operate It was clear that this move would affect the Austrian but the Russian attacks ave compelled them to re ment troops, bsequent AustroHungarian claim that their army had retired because the Ninth army was with | drawn is both true and untrue, It) conceals the fact that the retirement of the Ninth army was solely due to the breakdown of the Austrian army, | which had fought so gallantly at the | beginning of the war, but had not yet recovered from the effects of the The order for the retreat, which had entered the sphere of prohability for some time, was issued on the! 27th. The situation was highly criti-| eal, The operations in October had| gained us time, but had not been successful We had now to expect that very crisis—the probable inva- sion of Posen, Silesia and Moravia by Russian armies in superior force —which should have been prevented by out concentration and advance in Upper Silesia at the end of Septem FIRST “STRATEGIC RETREAT’ ‘The general lines of the retirement were already familiar to the German troops, They had been instructed over and over again to send every: thing they could do without to the rear, On the whole this had been done, tho here and there there was more in the front lines than there should have been. The problem of getting our heavy transport over the bad ronda gave me the acutest anxiety. The retirement was to be carried out In a direct westerly direction if powsible, thereby escaping the ene- my’s enveloping movement. On the whole, our “strategic re- treat,” as it was christened by the hand embroidery, $15.00. Price $15.00. collar. to plan and in perfect order. The countryside was spared. This re treat will be for all time an example of safe and humane warfare. The Guard reserve corps had « hard time of it on the right wing, for the resistance of the Austrian First army wae crumbling steadily, and it kept yielding to the enemy's frontal attacks. The Austrian armies retired on both «ides of the Vistula till they were on a level with Cracow, and part of their forces found themselves right In the Carpathians southwest of Preemysl. RETIRE TO GERMAN FRONTIER Of the Ninth army the following unite had to retreat: The Guard reserve corps, Twen tieth army corps and Landwehr corps -past the Kielce-Tomassoy line, half way to the Cracow-Czestochova line north of Czestochova. The Seventeenth army corps and Gen. Fromme!'s corps—past the Pe. trikov-Lodz line, and join hands with the Landwehr corps at Wielun. Positions had been prepared round Czestochova and Wielun. ‘The Eleventh army corps, which withdrew southwest of Steradz. (These positions were all within 25 miles of the German frontier.) Between the rivers Prosna and Warta the Fifth cavalry division which had come from the Western Front, the Eighth cavalry division and the Seventh Austrian cavalry dl- vision were concentrating under General von Frommel, who now gave up his command of the Thirty- fifth reserve division, and Count von Bredow’s Landwehr division. The Landsturm formations went back to the Kalisx Wreschen-Thorn Une. (Wreschen was across the Ger- man frontier) . The Russians followed at full strength. They also attacked us very heavily: in East Prussia and near Miawa. The position became very serious. We longed for an oppor- wear with the suit or coat. with the Austrian army so near such an operation would have been hazard ous, and, in any case, the offerisive could only have been a frontal at- We should only have fafled. PLANS ATTACK TO THE NORTH A great decision had now to be taken. I was more and more con- vinced that our only course was to send a large part of the army round by rail to Hohensalza and Thorn, and from there bring them down along chain fastened. can Brown. ribbon encircles the neck and forms a smart bow in front. All four models to be had in Flesh-color or White. The Choker Scarf pictured has a slit at one side through which the end is pulled, or it may be worn with the In Black, Taupe, Natural and Afri- Price $11.50. 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They have a soft airiness which is exceed- ingly beccaning, and at midseason take the place of heavier fur peltries for general — | ie the Vistula in the Lodz-Lowicz di rection, so that they could fall on| jy ery distance I have men- forces could be spared for this opera. tion was a further question. oa Our first business was to delay the Russians as long as possible and| | dendorff tells how he planned keep them away from the German| | to shift operations to the north railways, | of Warsaw and make a drive The destruction of railways and| | on the flank of the Russian army roads had been prepared for in a| | that would be ihilath very wholesale manner, Experience |®*———— had taught us that a modern army cannot operate amore than 80 mites|Charles W. Gorham from its railheads. If this were true, * * find we were able to destroy ine ratt| _ Dies at His Home ways as thoroly as I hoped, we could SNOHOMISH, Oct. 23.—Charles W. count on bringing the Russian| Gorham, member of the state house masses to a temporary standstill, | of representatives and editor of the even without fighting, before they | Snohomish County Tribune, died reached our frontier, Tuesday at his home here, following ths. He +|an illness of several mon the. destruction of the railways, for istration of Governor Mead, and sinee the troops were always wanting to| ‘hen has served three tenths at se nee a. | representative a ympia, the ey ego Meer ea tie orders sition which he held at the time of and saw they wero carried out. Cap. Nis death. | Mr, Gorham is survived tain Sperr assisted me splendidly, | °Y '» ohomish. Without more ado the troops demol- oem resin, iy Bnohomnien forbidde: time, After all, we must know some time whether the Austrian army south of the San had been suc- cessful, Unfortunately, this became more bockers, $11.50. —Third Floor, Funeral services will be held at the ished the road bridges. An {mmense J . hmount of work was necomplished, | iily residence at 2 o'clock Satur T had the satisfaction of seeing | WY Stternoon. that enemy advance gradually slow; Let's go eat at Boldt's—uptown, down and actually come to a stand-| 1414 3d Ave.; downtown, 913 2d Ave. THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW e e the flank of the Russians and bring ind this tho we had lett be | 66 t h t their advance to a standstill, What nero stores, the destruction of e 1s s ral * says the Good Judge right with it. hut up in two styles RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT is a long fine-cut The tobacco that gives — you the most lasting chew is the kind that — saves you money. You on’t have to take so many fresh chews. 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