The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 29, 1919, Page 5

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It removes the cause and restores THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1919 HOW ARMY Rennenkampf, after he had spring of 1915 She was now to betray She was to tell the spoll the whole Hungary and Ludendorff t Austrians sacrifice arch traitor three the engineered the czarina, the Ruswlar Germans the gigantic plan removal ¢ ele found themselves had forced the barrier attempts to drive them back had peror Francis Joseph were pleadin thing to save the situation T command had to decide to risk thelr ally It was at this moment that th obtained after the revolution have In the foothills of the Carpath slans had a strong It Carpathians of the ars testi quent def position on the that the to ta Dimitrieff, grand ¢ muc the 1 was so strong felt Radles of his weaknons. So at a place which otherwise b @ great attack, Macker sletly and ammunition and a striking for May 2, 1915, he let loose his blaat | “MY THOUGHTS By Gen. Eric V | Published by The Star thru special « | ayndicate. . Copyrighted, 1918, by Copyrighted In Great Britain by HMutehim in Spain by Messrs. Seix and Mariel; in Jaustralia. Ail tights reserved for Scandinavian countries General von Mackensen, with they | newly-formed Eleventh army, which consisted principally of troops from | the Western front, recelved instruc tlons early in May, 1915, to attack and crush in the flank of the Rus sian armies, which were pursuing } their offensive in the Carpathians (in nh attempt to invade Hungary) with supreme contempt of death. He was a distinguisned man, of great Accomplishments and a brilliant soliier whose deeds will live in bis tory for all time. vor Seeckt, formerly von Lochow’s chief of staff, was appoint ed his chief of staff, Thanks to his keen intellect and clear judgment this officer became one of the most prominent figures in the war Field Marshal Prince Leopold of Bavaria took command of the Ninth army and well deserved this, the |highest military rank. Hoe readily }put himself under Meld Marshal von Hindenburg, who was considerably junior to him In the service, | The commander in chief in the Fast, Hindenburg, received instruc tions to demonstrate on his front in order to pin down the enemy forces | there. The offensive undertaken by Gen- eral von Conrad in January (the Austrian attempt to relieve Preemyal) had been unsuccessful. At }the start ground was gained along! the whole of the Carpathian ridge, but after that matters came to a standettt. The Russians made their, | counter attack and pressed the Aus- trian army hard. Only the plucky | German Southern army under Gen- have been maintained. The difficul. theatre of war in the| enormous. They sub who worked won- ders, to a terrible strain. The losses due to frost bite were very great.” Przemys! was not relieved and fell on March 19. | ITALY'S ATTITUDE CAUSES WORRY Whilst the attacks against German | territory east of the Vistula abated early in April, the grand duke con tinued his offensive against the Aus trian army with the express purpone | ot descending on Hungary from the| Carpathians and putting Austria- Hungary out of the war. In April the headquarters staff at Teschen considered the military sita- | ation of the Dual Monarchy to be ex- tremely grave. Italy's attitude had) become more doubtful. She had re} fused all Austria-Hungary’s extensive concessic the necessity for which I myself had urged on General von) Conrad, and was fairly caught in the net spread by the entente. In spite of their superiority in numbers the | latter needed additional forces to enable them to master us | It became more and more certain that we had to reckon on Italy en. tering the war on the side of our enemies, Austria-Hungary realized that she had to reipforce her troops | jon the Italian frontier considerably The Serbian army also seemed to re- b> sega quire watching again. The more the Austrian army was — University and Roosevelt Park Cars SEATTLE Symphony Orchestra JOHN SPARGUR, Conductor First Symphony Concert Isolde Menges Famous English Violinist SEASON TICKETS NOW ON SALE AT Tuesday. Sherman-Clay Piano House Remainder of Week. Rogers’ Candy Store, 14th Ave. N. E., Monday and obliged to weaken itself in Hungary and Galicia, in favor of other fronta,! the more severely would it feel a‘ Russian attack. Feeling at Teschen became ever more despondent, The Austrian liaison officer, acting on in structions from General von Conrad, described the situation to us as one (of the utmost gravity, Judging by | my knowledge of the Austrian-Hun- | garian army, this was certainly true. | We forwarded these serious reports ‘and our interpretation of them to general headquarters. AVERTED “WORST | | DISASTER” About the middle of April the situ: of the Russian a great weak polmt in the of the grand duke for Aurtria had given hin services to ald the fight of the Slavs. Harper France, IN GALICIA WAS BROKEN ny, had been removed disasters; but in the remain: in power Kinaman, the kaiser Russian line and the invasion of Re reh traitress, h army to her from the war the straits in The Ruasians Carpathians, the Austrian failed, and the agents of the Em * with the Germans to do so isin Was #o acute that the German eat in the pony n 19 ot th whieh with huge west in order to rescue © czarina gave the cue rhown what she did southwest of Cracow, the Rus eastern bank of the Dunajee river Juke, pressing his attack thru the h of the artillery from the army ttle Napoleon of Bulgaria,” who The crarina told Te! rds ardly would have been chosen for gathered large quantities of guns ce of picked troops, The night of AND ACTIONS” on Ludendorff Frangement with the McClure Newspaper and Brothes All righ ved. om & Company and the I Italy by Frateilt Treves; in © Belgium, Holland, Russia and the the bending back of the right wing in September and the poor results of the fighting in Flanders had caused great depression in the army in the Wegt, and this had been deepened by the lack of ammunition In January, however, an attack near Solasons by Third army corps, r their admirable ‘and distin guished commander, General Lochow, had had a most encouraging effect, and an attack by the Saxons near Craonne immediately after wards led to splendid results, In February and March, after & great struggle, we had at last succeeded in shattering a determined French effort to break thru in Champagne. The future hopes of the entente were, for the moment, based on Rus sin alone, In England Kitchener's army was in course of formation. This was o great creation of a dis. tinguished anizer, visions, the first 12 could be ready by May. ‘The entente's war industry was ex- nding. The United States had been added to the number of their con | troops by degrees and surrendered | them for the operations In the south cant We should be able to do so more as time went on, but with such an jormously long front there had to limit to the process, Our po- sitions had, at any rate, to b manned suffictently to permit of the |rellef of each individual soldier, It * not until June, when general adquarters assigned some formed Landaturm regi that we were able to think of pre: paring divisions for our own of fensive operations. More effective support of General yon Mackensen's operations would be | forthcoming when we ourselves were able to initiate an extensive move | ment against the enemy This was iImponwible on the fronts occupied by the Ninth my (in the bend of the Vistula west of Warsaw), Gallwits's wrmy detachment (north of Warsaw below the East Prussian frontier) and the 2 the and wa the Nie | Inna. ARCH INTO 1 ANIA At the end of March and beginning of April we had received from the Western front the Third Cavalry di vision and the Bavarian Cavalry ai vision and these had been rent to Gumbinnen, as the left wing of the Tenth army was still very ‘These two divisions and the Sixth eas st Prussia), ple north of and Cour n end of practi pin Lithuania only Cavalry division, which was atready | stationed north of the Progel, were to advance into Lithuania and Cour. land at the end of April, supported | joy the Sixth, Thirty-#ixth, Seventy eighth Reserve divisions. jalry divisions had been very care von | fully equipped for these operations. | |General von Lauenstein wan placed | in command here. | On April 27 our march into Lithy ania and rland bes | General von Lauenstein initiated the movement planned by the com- mander, in chief in the Bast by | marching in three columns on Shavii | (@bout halfway between the Prussian border and Fuga. This march was almost directly north.) In two days 50 miles were covered On the 29th the cavalry divisions Of the 32 di.) Were approaching Shavit and Kire-| chany (18 miles to the west of }Shavi). On the 30th, Shavli, which the Russians had set on fire, was oc- cupled. The Sixth and Third Cav airy divisions continued the move th and Tenth armies (at | weak. | The cav-/ | critioa! engagements in May near ia tractors, Altho at first we were able | ent in the direction of Mitau, at to hinder the export of war materials | “Dich the Sixth arrived on May 3 from America by social means, this (5 miles northeast of Shavit and 30 could not have a lasting effect, In| les southweat of Riga). our great struggle this action on the FORCED TO part of the United States could only RETREAT be interpreted by us as evidence of Here they could no longer break favoritiom toward our enemies. Her the enemy's defense, and for the time behavior roused feelings of the great they remained southwest of Mitaw. eat bitterness in us. Later on they withdrew behind the It was to be expected that the Ger | windau, along the Mitau-Moschetki man offensive against Russia would | rajway (50 miles to the rear). The ive rise to enemy attacks on the Third Cavalry division halted short Western front for her relief. The iy after this and the Bavarian Cav jalry division came up with them Bassee and Arras which fave US 50 | The two divisions then moved nouth much anxiety, illustrate the responst-| east from Shavll via Belamagola on bility assumed by general head-| Ketrany (25 miles north of the great quarters when they risked @ decisive | Kovno fortress). Here, however, the battle in the East. | enemy's defense was stronger. They, MACKENSEN | therefore, yielded slowly before his BREAKS FRONT | Pressure and retired behind the Du In the early hours of May 2 Gen-;bises rffer In eral von Mackensen, in « welhpre-| Kiely. pared attack, brilliantly carried out) ‘The Infantry divisions had also by the troops, broke thru the Rus|carried out some extraordinary sian front on the middle Dunajec. | forced marches. The Thirty-sixth re During the next few days the Second | serve division was pushed forward and Third Russian lines were taken. | to the lower Dubissa to act as cover After this the Russians withdrew | against attacks from Kovno, while from Hungary northwards over the| the Seventy-cighth and Sixth Reserve ridge of the Carpathians. Hungary | divisions had united near Shavit. was freed from the enemy and the| The object of this daring enterprise Austrian army greatly relieved. had been attained, The Russians It was high time, for at this time | were visibly being reinforced Italy entered the war. (By this movement the Germans Her army numbered over 600,000 had penetrated 70 miles into Cour men, besides the numerous forma-|land and had cut the railroad be- tions in second line, which were not | tween Kovno and the important port intended to take part in the fight-| ot Libau, They had also fooled the ing immediately. This was an enor-| ussians into bringing forces to this mous accession of strength to the |—— — entente. By September the total strength of the Italian front line Make Your Own Gray Hair Remedy troops had already increased to 900, men, General von Mackensen, pressed forward unceasingly in the direction| Mrs. A. Dixon, a well-known of Jarosiay on the San and stormed | Brooklyn trained nurse, made the the bridgehead on May 15. Tife neighboring Austrian armies inked up On either side of the advancing German troops and the German Southern army also attacked and gained ground to the north beyond Stryj. At the beginning of June/ Przemysl was again wrested from the Russians North of the Upper Vistula the Russians abandoned the Nida and withdrew toward the Vistula, General following statement regarding gray hair: “Streaked, faded or gray hair can be quickly turned black, browr or light brown, by the use of the following remedy that you can make at home: “Merely get a box of Orlex pow- der at any drug store. It costs very little and no extras to buy. Dissolve it in 4 0%, of distilled or |rain water and comb it through the |hair, Full directions for mixing von Woyrsch was able, in mid-May, jand use and a gold bond guarantee to advance as far as Kielce while|come in each box. One box will keeping his left wing in position, [last you for montha. {CIRCLING “It in safe, it does not rub off, 1s "ANS FAIL not sticky or gummy, and leaves gl» ae the|the hair fluffy, It will make a y-haired person look twenty Carpathians and the Pilica had thus | ®T°Y > been obliged to abandon their po |%¢*rs younger.”——Advertisement, sitions and lost heavily in so doing. But, speaking generally, the allies were only able to follow up with frontal attacks, altho they made des- perate endeavors to effect local en- the direction of|) }ation in the Carpathians became still | ticu larmy was thrown back circling movements, and more par- ly to fall on the western flank Boroevic’s | of the Russian Carpathian army. over the| An attempt at an enveloping move- ridge, while further east the German | ment, made by the right wing of the Southern army stood firm. The mo-| Austrian army in the Bukovina, was ment had arrived when help was ab-| frustrated; it was not strong enough, more critical, General solutely necessary, We dispatched the Twenty-fifth Reserve division, which was with the Ninth army | awaiting the order, by rail. They | arrived just in time to avert the worst disaster. | | We reported the measures we had! taken to general headquarters, who fully concurred in our view of the| |mituation. ‘They raised the Beskiden | | corps, under General von der Mar- | witz. The commander in chief of the| Bast also gave up the Fourth di visign and a newly formed division | |to reinforce the Carpathian front. But, in spite of all this, the situ ation there continued to be grave, We had to send reinforcements to the Serbian front at the same time. The nforcements afterwards | joined General von Linsingen during | ‘The German general staff now re- | solved to try and obtain a decision | against ja, The plan was an am- bitious one and the very idea of weakening our forces in the West in) spite of the critical situation there was « proof of their readiness to ac- | cept responsibility. TOOK RISKS IN THE WEST Since the engagements round Ypres in Novem the fighting on | | the whole of the Western front had| developed into trench warfare. The | | cessation of the advance in France, | his attack in May. 1G and ended in a withdrawal before enemy pressure. The difficulty of keeping up com- munications with the rear stopped the advance on the San for a time. These difficulties were overcome early in June, and the attack was resumed. The heaviest fighting al- ways fell to the German troops, On June 22 Lemberg was recovered and soon afterwards Rava Ruska was stormed, and the Russians were forced to retreat still further toward the Bug. 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He wanted to make one of his favorite en circling movements and bag even the greater part of the etar’s forces, but his superiors wanted to play a safer game and the kaiser held with them and forced Ludendorff to take their orders. | | | | | | | | * * line from other points where they were to be attached later) There now followed on an extended the war. The extensive military har- || bor works were evidence of the am- bition of imperial Russia, bent as she was on extending her power. The town contained some im- portant industrial establishments, in- cluding one of the largest barbed wire factories in Russia. Lieut.-Col. Hoffman suggested that & surprise attack should be made, and I agreed to this. Our troops were not very numerous, The Thitd Cavalry brigade, under Colonel von der Schulenberg, two or three bat- | talions and a few batteries belonging | to the reserve divisions already on the spot, were to approach the town |from the east, while a Landsturm | battalion approached south along the coast and torpedo boats attacked from the sea. ‘The fortress was not se fended. The fortifications were: in The taking of Libau was martial achievement worthy of @ manent place in history, but a happy little enterprise which | who took part in it recall with ure, Its most valuable feature that it was carried out withot loss. It was always my endeavor | achieve success at the least cost. Troops may take pride ing heavy losses and s1 spite of them. The commander have a different point of view. it from the i front on the Dubissa, from the mouth | of the river up to Kielmy, round! Shavli and to the northwest (a front | of about 100 miles running almost due north about 85 miles from the Baltic), a series of critical engeze-, ments which dragged on thru Ma: | and June and proved most exhaust-| ing for both leaders and men, On| our side they were carried out, both | defensively and offensively, with a/| great numerical inferiority, in order | |to hold what we had gained and pin | down the enemy. General Otto von Below was ap pointed to this command and th army was given the name of th “Niemen” army, We held the Du- bista line by hard fighting. Shavii could not be held permanently, and it was only possible to bring back part of the plentiful leather supplies which were of such great importance to us. As early as May we had to abandon the town to the enemy and remained due south of it | LIBAU CAPTURED EASILY On the evening of May 7 the Third Cavalry brigade took Libau. 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