The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 28, 1919, Page 7

A victory on which no shadow has been cast—a Poldiers—was that which Jakes in February, 1915 In a way, however, the Russians can be excused for their defeat Btrategy of Ludendorft, Ludendorff won in the battle of the & cjeancut triumph for | @aring strategy and wonderful marching and fighting by highly trained Magurtan The in launching a great army thru a country heavily z Govered with deep snow, was the strategy of pure desperation, It is g @oudtful if he would have adopted ft had Qe not been compelled to do “Winter men was inaugu Pomething to checkmate Grand Duke Nicholas’ “gigantic plan” to capture || no . cy wie the ~ 2B tale wd pr J oth East Prussia and Hungary, the granaries of Germany, by a sweep: | ¢, lveat ef ake wianen 3 Ang descent in the spring. His drive was something the Russians could th army were not J hardly expect and therefore did not provide against to ady dhelr attack be This battle was fought over the same ground aa the one in which he had on a ro 4 8 dd pees > @efeated the army of Rennenkampt the preceding autumn, when that| operations could he given by orders Rreacherous general fell in with the German plans and gave up strong /the rest had to be left to the judg . a disastrous retreat ment of the arm command: Tut , Mast, hewever, ‘Uadecdaett pesssneed Gn additional advantage, |the mame tuotieal wlows ware shared In the first battle of the Mazurian lakes he had been un to make €n |by all, so success was assured every DyAttack from the north against the Russian lines extending from Lake) where. Hven during the battle itnelf Mauer to the Pregel river. The ground in that direction was too low for] the eommanderinchiet in the Bast the movement of big forces and he had been compelled flanking attack from the passages between the lakes in the south. Now, however, the lowlands in the north were frozen and he to strike on both flanks, Assuming, probably, Mn guard against a movement from the south, he co f@nd largest force In the north. Also, further to deceive Taunched the southern force first, ‘Was to be the real attack Tt was three days after the southern army was on Its way the d appeared on the northern flank @f the surprise to the Russ Make an ordinary march fortreas of Grondo, fation point and base for the armies operating in East Prussia. Deen filled with men and munitions. the west while they closed the trap on the Russians who were get thru the tangle of the great Suwalki forest. It was Peal 5 Ae. @rive into a disaster. But the leadership was not there and Lud punted for another Russian army, taking 110,000 prisoners, badly need piies and most of the guns. to make his waa able that the Russians would be | entrated his beat Tussiang he to confirm them in the idea that this|storm had been raging since Febru with the ins sending troops hurriedly to holt that front, that the main spear. The speed with which this attack was carried out is the best evidence Even under such conditions as would ost impossible for an army, the northern had made its way about ninety miles in ten days and stood before | Here occurred one of the most extraordinary happenings of all the war, evidence of Ludendorff's supreme contempt for Russian leadership. indo was one of the strongest of the Russian fortress cities, a concen It must Yet Ludendorff’s men turned their backs squarely on Grodno and faced truggiing a wonderful for bold leadership to break up the whole German scheme and turn rte had but few dispositions to ma I jhad to be thinking of the next move and the coveging of the flanks. IT did not ffnd it easy to start the army off on its task, The winter was cold, An exceptionally fierce snow lary 4 or 5; roads and railways were buried, and it was difficult to* get ahead of the beaten track, Snow drifts, as high as a man, were suc ceeded by bare places covered with thin ice, However, no alteration was made in the original scheme, The Russians had even greater difficul |tles to contend with, because their supply trains had been sent ahead. Our troops were equipped for a winter campaign had been put on runners. proved later to be impr they could not and the transports tho these etieal, for on roads be une in places. ONLY CAPTURE OF SUPPLIES 1 SAVED GERMANS FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET | The Crown Heater Holds the Fire All Day or All Night ‘THE Crown burns wood as readily as it does coal, and converts a small amount of fuel into a sur- prising degree of heat. 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For the night| columns clowed up a little few days the weather ‘The roads became impasse t pools of water covered one a the surf of the marshes. lucky that by our wide encireting |movement we ¢ ured provisions | ‘trom the enemy's provision columns, | | for otherwise the whole operation | j would have had to be broken off thru (failure of supply. FRICTION IN HIS ARMY | The commands and the subordinate | |ataffe had to face extraordinary dif. |ficulties. It was a long time before | battle-worthy units could be brought up when an engage nt with the lenemy took place. Orcets could not |be transmitted, wires were broken down by the storm, messages did not jarrive. And yet the most wonderful | things were accomplished. | The operation, like most opera tions, did not pass without friction, which prejudiced the sirategical | unity. Jeneral Litzmann’s troops (about 125,000 men, striking in the south east corner of t Prussia against the Russian progress on the 7th. They got as far Johannisburg and further south On the Sth they and during the as | crossed the Pissa. took Johannisburg, | following against any enemy movernent from |Osowiec, they pressed where they met with strong An enemy attack from the direc ton of Osowlec was met and re | pulsed. At the same time the center of the Eighth army, following clone on the heels of the enemy, who were |wiving way along the whole front, FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET THE BASEMENT STORE Women’s Shoes With Extra-wide Tops $7.50 Pair ‘THoucH the tops of these Shoes are of unusually gen- erous proportions, the vamps are true to size—a combination that many women will welcome. - The Shoes are of Black Kid, with firm cloth tops, in lace style, i Goodyear welt soles and medium military eels. Sizes 4 to 9; widths E and EEE. Priced/at $7.50 pair. WOMEN’S COMFORT SHOES of soft black | kid with common-sense pe GM piocher a comfortable for sensitive feet and practical, | too, for general house wear; $4.50 to $6.75 | pair. THE ONT STORE was approaching Lyck. SIBERIANS’ |GALLANT STAND Both leaders and troops spared no jeffort to accelerate the advance, but Progress was too slow for the atrate- |gic combination as a whole. Lyek, which was splendidly defended by the Third Siberian corps, only fell on the morning of the Mth. This corps es- ecaped annihilation and withdrew via Augustowo behind the marshes of the upper Bobr. |]| After the fall of Lyck progress was rapid. By the night of the 16th-17th General LAtzmann was in Augustowo after further b tigh@rr. | Very early in the operations, while our columns were still marching on |Augustowo, the Third reserve di vision, the Fifth infantry brigade and |the Eleventh Landwehr division (about 40,000 men) had gradually been withdrawn from this battle front and pushed forward for the protection of jthe armies against attacks from the | Onowiec-Lomza line. Osowiee was to be invested and stormed, It was now certain that strong forees were gath- ering in the neighborhood of Lomza, and the portion of the Twentieth army corps stationed there was no |p {longer sufficient |@In the meantime the envelopment |movement of the Tenth army Thad | been completed? (The striking foree of about 150,000 men was operating |100 miles to the north of the other | flanking force.) By the night of the 10th-11th, after extraordinary forced marches and in: credible efforts, the center of this army, moving on the Tilsit-Kalwaria line, had ached the Insterburg |]iKovno road near Wirballen, and |f| when Lyck fell on the 14th the in HFitantry columns were already due |north of the great Aug Suwalki-Seiny towo forest he retreating Russian army was rously th the flank and |forced southward. They v appar. Jently taken by surprise again, just jas at the beginning of our offensive \from Upper Silesia and Hohensalza, | In this connection our intelligence [service did good work by spreading false ru preventing the enemy from obtaining information. ‘The Russians and the entente did not succeed in getting news of these |movemenis., It is, indeed, extremely NG RESULTS! difficult to obta accurate informa- tion about the enemy, especially in time for it to be of any use, which were only covered with snow | when fighting was taking place} left Wiog) made good | daya their flank secured} forward to} If It were otherwise, conducting @ campaign with inferi numbers would not be such an extraordinary lifficult tank, We were favored by luck at Tannenberg, (™ juek Jay tn having the Russian wireless code furnished by the czarina, | Some parts of the Itussian army which had retired toward Wovno thus stood on our flank, apd attacked us Incessantly with a view to holding up our advance It was tn vain. Thgy were thrown back on the Kov no-Olita line by t the Mank of the Tenth army. On the « ne of the 14th it veomed ax tho it would be possible to complete the envelop ment of the my due east of Augustowo, Gen ra} van Kiehhorn diverted his left wing In this direction On the 16th and 16th the advance guard of the Twenty-first army corpsadvanced on th Augustowo chaw far into the forest, but here the were overrun by Russian columns pouring back oastward, and part was taken prisoner TRAP CLOSED ON RUSSIANS Up to February 18 forces of the Tenth army pushed on boldly along the northern edge of the forest to the vicinity of Grodno, Here they took up ® position facing west with their rear close to the fortifications, This vement cut Seiny ff the enemy's retreat. nm troops penetrated the forest from the north, and after the wre of Augustowo reached | the | Grodno-Lipsk chaussee and the Bobr |)! below Krasnbor, fighting all the way At Lipsk the ring was closed. . The position of our troops before Grodno wi exeeedingly hazardous. JOn the 20th and Zist violent attacks | made from the fortress where tussian reinforcements had as The Russians made repeat wore the nembled 1 ate into which they retreat ‘The firm, tho had poured in German troops suffering heavy | their stood lonnen. |afterward made good as. commander. imehief in the West, had reason to be proud of his troops and bis own | foreefulness. The staff of the Tenth |army could claim a share of the glory with good canscience, A few days later the masace | dew surrendered. ‘The battle nd. oly Was at an | ANOTHER ARMY CRUSHED The tactical resutts of the winter campaign in Masuria were important; | 110,000 prisoners and many hundred guns, The Russian Tenth army had been annihilated, and Kussia's strength was once more perceptibly reduced. Meanwhile the attack on Osowtlec and the Bobr had not made any head- way. In spite of our powerful ar tillery R defied frontal attack, as the commanding heights on the southern bank of the HBobr could not be reached at all points Under these circumstances 1 could not conceal from myself that this! great victory had been deprived of |its full strategical results. | headquarters were called on to make grave and difficult decisions. In the first place the order was given to divcontinue the attacks on |the Bobr and Osowtec. The Tenth army could not remain where it was. Very were needed to protect our flanks on the cast, the Olita Kowno direction, but they were gt available. Com- }munication with the rear and the conditions under which the army was living had become’ too difficult owing to the inclemengy of the weather. | They could not be borne for long HAS TO WITHDRAW TENTH ARMY The roads and tracks were too bad the weather too unfavorable and the horses too exhausted, Our transport could hardly get on at all on the high roads with their thin surface of worn stones. Besides we had very little available The army had to return to condi- tions under which it could live and |recuperate, Altthis made it urgently necessary that the Tenth army should facq about and withdraw. very beginning of the opera. tion of rear positions east of AugustowoSuwalki reaching aa far as the Niemen. The work was im mediately put in han& by labor com- panies as soon as we had conquered this district. These positions—altho only in an early stage—now offered a certain amount of support. The Tenth army received orders for ita right wing to wheel and retire to the prep line. At the same time the Tenth army had received instructions to releare forces which were urgently required further west. The great Russian counter attacks had begun against our long flank on the southern front fer of Weat and East Prussia, Fur ther the Russians were keeping us busy to the north of the Nieman. The battle raged all round German territory west of the Vistula fhe Austrian army's offensive for the relief of Przemysl had been un successful. The Russians very soon mac counterattacks. would have to be left to its fate. on |taced by the prospect of heavy Rus slan attacks. RUSSIAN ATTACK IS FAILURE After the Augustowo forest had been cleared and the wounded re moved, at the beginning of March, General yon Eichhorn, in accordance with instructions, withdrew his right to the defensive line, and his left north of the Augustowo forest as far as Seiny and south of Kalwarya, He proposed to fall on the pursuing Rus sians again and defeat them by en- veloping their right wing. The idea was a good one and in ac cordance with the resolute spirit pre- vailing at army headquarters. The fresh success, for the newly-formed Tenth Russian army suffered defeat, But the troops needed rest so much and the weather was so bad that the army command had reluctantly to decide to give up any idea of further attacks and have recourse to position warfare, especially as more troops © troops protecting | Army | strong forces | Przemys! | the whole eastern front we were now | days from March 9 to 11 witnessed a}! “THE SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 191 ENDORFF MOVED VAST ARMY OVER _ TO TRAP FOE * “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff loft wing remained in the neighbor h ot Kalwarya Martampol Pil | winehiel | | About the middle of Mareh the Nusslans hurled themselves against these positions, but a period of quiet gradually wet in At the beginning of February the | } Other Ger. | Jarmy corpa had now to send an talic to replace them from Stettin, @ proof of how freely ; Wo had spent ourselves, and how ne ve y our strength bad been taxed} j engagements which had taken since the beginning of Ieb r | ke from the Augustowo for | | wrought « marching columns, In | the Twenty-first army corps, and ite | inteewpersed | leader, General Fritz von Below, who | pund off the roads and| Russian troops surging in the Augus- | It was | towo forest and defending themaetves |"¥ndon the hopes I had entertained | | t | with ours. | aa to be transferred to the Bighth | Seaea and Gallwite's hment, The Kugsians were stil on Prussian terrt tory northeast of Tilt, and we were justified in our desire to wrest thin lant #mall corner of German soil from the power of the enemy. The task | Waa entrusted t the governor of Konigaberg, General von Papp with the Landsturm forces stationed there, reinforced by some artillery Tauroggen was seized on Febru ary 18 TRIES TO REWARD A GIRL The peace which reigned once more north of the Pregel was rudely broken on March 17 by an inroad near Memol Tauroggen of a| ed of homede d formations wien force fense and frontier ru They took us by surprise whilet we were till devoting all our attention t a” eleowh: »|. The Russian horde advanced on |Memel, which the Landsturm f abandoned, We heard of this thru 4 telephone girl, who rang us up and gave us thin news when the Rus sians were a@tually in the postoffice I endeavored to obtain the Iron Cross of the Second Class for this young girl cin Erica Rostel This was not possible, but she after. wards received a gold watch from the state. The Russians took Tauroggen at the same time and pushed on in the direction of Tilsit, The actions on the other fronts had used up the rve he command of the Seco: uary. On March 21 Meme! was freed, and on the 3,000 people who had off were recovered from enemy. ‘The Russians had incredible havoc, Taurog gen fell on March 29. It was a brilliant piece of work for | Ped THE ON East Prussia was once more free, and henceforth was spared any fur ther enemy invasion. It was now ponstble struction. Since the middie of February our | headquarters had been at Lotzen of | Thewe were hard days for me until |the beginning of April. I had to of making immediate strategionl use | lof the advantages gained by the win ter battle, Tactically this battle had been successful, With satisfaction, It was nice to know that the grand |duke’s heavy attacky had been shat tered, and that we stood everywhere on hontile soll, But we had taken but one #tep toward the final decision against Rosela, and it was with that foal that my innermost thoughts and feelings were mort concerned. The fearful waste of Russian strength in Kast and West Prussia ought, later on, to help the operations in Galicia. The Ruxsian lowes had been ex- traordinarily heavy in comparison EB resources In man-po stand such a drain fr ALL Hs ENERGIES TAXED Bach of the successive tactical sit- uations had made the fullest demands on my mental and spiritual energies It is simply impossible to pat it all jon paper, the proud hopes, the de- spondency, the disappointments, the heart-searchings before a decision, the annoyance caused by one thing and another, differences which had so often to be overcome, nor can I portray how © could finitely. not deeply I felt for the troops, who had | to bear the privations of a winter campaign in such inclement weather. Later on I had happier times at Lotzen, | Our quarters and the office were I look back | small, but I liked them. with pleasure on that time in the friendly Uttle Bast Prussian town. Whilst the fighting was still going on, one of our most important tasks was the construction of rear posi. tions. Along the whole of the eastern frontier of Prussia there arose a} barbed-wire zone as the first perma- nent element of the new pontticta | | Numerous special battalions com posed of poorly trained men unfit for | labor or service in the fleld were sent there at my request. They often had to work under enemy fire, 1 did #0 devotedly. The word digger” is a title of honor, These units were subsequently transferred from the Eastern to the West front About this time general headqua ters ordered the number of regiments to a division in the West to be re: duced from four to three so that a division now had nine battalions in stead of twelve. We did the same on our ftont. In this way a large num ber of strategical units was formed Operations were thus facilitated, and no doubt this was a great advantage. | But a division of nine battalions ts too weak, tactically, while the staff and administrative services are too large. 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