The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 1, 1919, Page 10

SECOND BIG WEEK! of the had rff, at campal Luder the of end on 1915 to show what he of flanking hance mig ne in the way had not Palke in th beginning ans for a great drive and Vilna to the Altho many troops taken from the © the .ampaign in Serbia » the Russians had Polish pocket, he k from the north In outflank them He succeeded in putting the I slang bayn kaiser ve the Pripet had feont and <ovno rahes. en stern y) launched a atterm an 5 RODE 100 MILES BEHIND FLEEING ARMIES AND. CUT RAILROAD LINES ygeroun «ituation, By] hing his northern beat them to Higa nd riding tt 100 car of the retrealy two of thelr pri is. But he had not the keop the trap closed. He mourn that he had been chance try the when all with sians in remark she mar scrons the § armies, cut of to on a the ame greater seal the advantages of position were As at Duke brought Grand Germans of the t the Russians order, it waa, the the downfall holaa and from their t b far “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff Published by aynd pyrighted, 1919, by Britain by Muteniv Hein and Bariet, tr reserved for ted tn by Meners Au oa en agements the Ni urland and Lithuar the eastern end of East Prussia) during July and August had nly been directly gonnected with the main operations in so far as they ad driven enemy forces in thel ldirection, ‘There waa, of course, o tactical cooperation on the Niemen etween the inner wings of the sth and the Niemen army, With attack on Kovno this coopers tlon became closer, and at the taking of the fortress led to their fighting n the same field of battle; it then claxed again, From now onwards the connection of these armies was > take a prominent part in the op rations General Otto von Below was fight ing in a distinct and separate ares land his actions therefore were m¢ independent than those of the other commanders, who were fighting on narrow sectors, We were able to onfine ourselves to giving genera instructions for the conduct of the campaign Since the middie of July the Nie men army had’ held the line of the Dubiasa to southwest of Shavil, and on the Wenta and Windau down to the coast. At the beginning of the operations General: von Below was ordered to make an enveloping at tack on the strong enemy forces near Shavil, and, after securing his }ieft aguinat attack from the direc | tion of Fuga, to push east, north of the Niemen. ae ‘These operations were tn it jeularty good hands. General Below, who had already been fe POSITIVELY THE SAME PRODUCTION THAT WAS SHOWN AT THE ot pe TAN THEATRE AT ADVANCED PRICES HAROLD BELL WRIGHT'S FAMOUS RURAL STORY OF THE OZARKS First time'in pictures THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS © 10 REELS par von garded in peace time as an un usually efficient and self-reliant of | fleer, had led bis troops with great | prudence and foresight during the battle of Tannenberg, and dix tinguished himself in the battle of the Maxurian Lakes by the effective dixposition of his forces, | VON BELOW WINS PROMOTION Field Marshal von Hindenburg held his manly and upright character in high esteem, and in November sug seated to his majesty that he should take over command of the Eighth army, altho he was among the most junior generals in the service to hold such a command. General von Below had fully justified the confi dence placed in him by his com mander in chief. His’ chief of staff, General von Bockmann, had long been on the general staff, and during the war had proved himself to be a good leader of troops and to have the makings of a good chief of staff. The two men worked togethér in com plete harmony At headquarters at Lotzen we could feel confident that, with the forces at their disposal. they would exploit to the ful) the possibilities of the operations north of the Niemen. ' The communications of the Nie men army were a difficult problem. | ‘The standard gauge railway ceased at Laugzargen, northeast of Tilsit, and Memel. The Niemen, altho) navigable, could only used to} bring troops and supplies for the| right wing of the army and the traf-; fic control was #o poor that it could not be relied upon. An attempt to tow the troops, so urgently required to reinforce the right wing in barges up the river, proved a failure The string of barges ran aground on sandbanks on the Russian side of the r Libau atemt be THAYES oo * melodrama of the law. de less west J ™ in the days of 49 GorBWwYn could be caution with the as a base of sur plies, At that time the Russian fleet and English submarines dom ated the eastern part of the Baltic ertheless, with the rial found there raged ntain an inadequate service e railway running east from Libau used er we te ma we m = an to mature we had to de we more complete network of | railwayn, | About the middle of July, after the arrival of the reinforcements | which had been dispatched in June the grouping of the Niemen arm was completed. Army headquarters were bitterly disappointed because, owing to the attack on the Narew, | they did not receive the quota of troops they had hoped for. They ad- hered to their original plan of oper-| ation notwithstanding. | (This is another bitter reference to the kaiser’s action in overruling him and accepting Falkenhayn's plans | for an attack north of Warsaw in July Instead of the sweeping flank movement to the north that he had schemed,) RUSSIANS OFF THEIR GUARD he line of the Dubissa, as far as Kielmy, was not very strongly held, | ‘The First reserve corps was concen. | trated for attacl between Kielmy and Shavii, The line of the Windau was also lightly held to the point| where it joined a strong sector north of the Libau railway. Here there were two or three infantry and as |many cavalry divisions, On July 14, when, in North land, Prasnysz had just fallen |further south the Russians were |west of the Vistula and south Lublin-Cholm, Gen, von crossed the Windau with |tion of enveloping the strong Rus sian forces near Shavii by an ad. nb ” AMELODRAMA OF THE LAW- LESS WEST IN THE DAYS OF ’49, IN WHICH A DARING GIRL TAMES A MAN-KILLER OF THE PLAINS Po and still of low | the inten The Star thro special strane Harper and jan extent }the German cav | They | cially on | flank When our plans for a large oper at all, |able now | Vancgg,from the north in the direc oment with the MoClure Newspaper thers All tights reserved and the London Times Hh Treves . Tealy Frate Belgium. the tion of Mitau, the and pressing forward southeant the F The weak center was ground, The right wing of the army on the Dubiem was to; a by for the time ly to join in the wrations after | orne progress had been mac Apparently the Russians had expected an attack, nor had they din 1 this extension of the line to the north. In the of Ok mijany (acrom the Windau, miles northwent of Shavli) they attacked Sixth reserve division, advanc ing in the center, and forced it t withdraw to the west. But their right flank was threatened to such that they were un to nuccenn, from with vt corps to hold Its being, and not ver rection follow up t ENVELOPMENT 1S BALKED By the 17th ithe infantry dtvisions | on the left wing had beaten the Ru» sians at Autz of the Windau an tniles northwest of Shayli), but owing to the Sixth re serve diviaion they had to be brought back south the enveloping movement was effective, In the course of continuous fighting, which lasted until July 24, | these operations, which beeame! known as the “Battle of Shavil,”| ended with the retreat of the Fifur Russian army beyond Shavi! toward Ponieviesh (50 miles south of east of Shavit). Portions of it got away ry in thelr rear was, 20 milen east In consequence of ti short of artillery Ponleviesh was occupied by us on July 29. On the left wing the cay alry (reached out to the Ray of Riga and joine! up with the infantry ad vancing on Mitau, which was taken on August 1. Further south the Da Dina was cronaed, and by July 29 the Kovno-Ponleviesh line had been occu pied. | Communication had now to be es tablished once more, and the troops supplied with ammunition. Supply columns bad been sent in great um bers to the Twelfth and Eighth armies (pursuing the Russians fur ther south), and the Niemen army was corréepondingly short. Their tur ther advance now began slow down. There was a long halt, whilst the left wing pushed forward toward the Dvina. To the south of Tiga the Russians were holding an important | bridgehead, which was to be a thorn in our flesh for a long time to come On the other hand, early in Septem: | ber the Dvina was reaghed between Uxhall and FriedrichstAdt (a 40-mile front beginning 10 miles southeast of Riga), and the enemy thrown back to the opposite bank FRE: RUSSIANS sTor THEM Meanwhile ced. | Nier en a very time being to the The Russians had been weak forces of the army were distributed c wide area, so that, for the they were unable to ad urther without reinforcement were in touch with the left wing of the Tenth rmy, as the lat ter, after the taking of Kovno, had again encountered strong enemy forces half way to Vilna An attempt by the fleet in the Ray of Riga August § had influ ence on the operations on land The rapld advance of the Niemen army showed that still more could be done if the forces had been stronger and better cequipped, espe in regard to supply columump. shot at the kaiger dnd Falkenhayn for overruling his great flanking scheme.) In the second half of idea of continuing o th Niemen had finite shape, ‘The of the retreatin, Poland could only in the ai Vilna-Minsk (his ¢ long delayed) is attack was to be carried out by the enth army, | whilst the Eighth and Twelfth armies and the southern army} groups were to keep up the pressure on the enemy \ vance i on no (Another August the erations east of umed more on the ny from e carried out, if ection of Koyno iginal plan, now STICKS TO HIS | BIG IDEA | fhe operations of the Tenth army | required that its flank should be pro. don the north from attack from railway from Riga to Dvinsk which is a junction for several lines from the northeast and east. The Niemen army waa to continue its ad- vanes with Dvinsk as the objective, whilst a strong contingent of cavalry advanced toward the two rallws lines to the south According to this plan the Russian | front faaing the Tenth and Niemen | armies, which, altho unbroken, was weak to the northeast of Kovno,| would be plerced; that 1s, It would | be forced back thru Vilna to Dvinask, whilst.the cavalry divisions advanced on Poltzk- Minsk The question the ope remained whether ations would still be profit that the Russians had re- treated so far to the east. There was no doubt that every day's delay je the prospects less promising. | conside: whether we should not | ent ourselves with a thrust on | Lida (65 miles east of Grodno and| about 150 miles north of the Dvinsk line), I rejected this idea, because all similar endeavors during the pre ceding summer campaigns to accom- } of the | BY CAVALRY | of their brilliant dash and courage \German enveloping movement came | broke RUSSIANS with his strong person. and the head of the *\ grand duke, ality, resign himself at th tear placed army the tn ay show that ¢ harsh as t taught, ye the country efforts made treated ort! vors to was not #0 jone uty eve re, and en Ger told He lr rule world has has to was expl to Germs vi wt fre ters had the cea ity no BLOOD THAT IS BLOOD Any Physician Will Indinpe nd full handled east of|I The one betw Vilna and risk was nearest to succeeding, It showed that a strategieal break thru only yields its full reward when it is followed up by: tactical en velopment It was left for the Bul th garian army, in September, 1918, to to execute ne show to the world the tremendous naequences of such an operation. These consequences, however, were possible only because of the utter Hiapse of that army. h r anxiet of ue plinh outflanking Ne ly 1 still pinned my faith to the bigger seb because ibs auccess would bring a more substa tial reward, In this were compelled to take a leap in the dark. It was clear that the Tenth army needed reipforcements, and the vernent | troops which had been investin wet of I Névo Georgievsk were employed for , this purpose. A PERIOD OF GREAT ANXIETY The had, become 1m addit for th Kighth Me Tel You o Hentth ke Nar it Is The Mu or new front, ually died flood surged against ab but the tempest grad down ery organ perf. ot alse nee *, faintne ther * pure, re nherited quired vigor and vim. 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The » had not met they agair the ineia Wan a The on the south wing . , (of the Niemen army also continued ee to be pretarious, and the rearwar | vernent of the Tenth artr dangerous All this, was nothing to the nerve-rack ing susp could the infantry get forward fast enough on the bad roads }to comr the envelopment whicr had so skilfully begun by the/ ca ision? Such suspense car understood b thone who |have actually experienced it the Tenth aituation had br m Poland of turning it contr had neu from V ght reinforce > the army like « T nted, had beer forced on the north tn t of Vilkernir. The fighting ticularly heavy on the northern by a Vilna (north of Vilna). We paseed once more thru » period | NEVES € af 78 e ety. " pedaties! we ged Bobi sorbeat ga hout the whole war we| GRAND DUKE eperetiona, bat the capadity of the eceded, either on the East | FORCED OUT in exploiting} We had bi Wirballen- Kovno railway was limit oh, cals (6 tin sated as - lon, ® Dig strategieal break thru to thethrow of Kussia Everything took an endless time, and in addition to this the roads were bad and the troops were no longer fresh At van. n hea The ¢ ment the b flank tr I ly f comm, an wtarted m oy at was the had be ng re north rh principal reason able to thwart t with whic the Vilr nw few days’ m: they would not h ponition to do so. how the movement nee we If they threatened on had bee par-| further west tired was tion been ina : Ir only be gM the final over ne step nearer. Th last, on September 9, the a Niemen army made rd Dvinwk © began. The good progre w wtndt. 2D Usziany road and very soon dre beyond Novo The enemy made a bridgeheada and the was long and severe. The left wing of the Te h of Vitkomir 60 mi of Vilna), made good progrons on the first two days toward the Vilna Vilna. Further on, they were only able to force the Rus sian back across this river by de grees GREAT SWEEP r hack stand at fighting here th army north THE HOME OF HIG AL COMEDIES above however STARTS THIS AFTERNOON AT 2:30 OH, JOY! THEY'RE HERE TODAY Retween inn two more room CONTINUOU PERFORMANCE SUNDAY | RUSSIANS DEFEAT SCHEME The Mth Army made repeated ef. forts to transfer troops from their front to the left wing. The move ments were di ult parry out and k up a great deal of time; they mposed a tremendous strain on the for the roads and hind a divisions were the cavairy divisions quic ugh tm their foremort their weak able perma to hold Smorgon miles east of Vilna). The latter was recaptured on the 19th by from Vilna after a plucky on the part of the jon were bad nf fantry ne re ly eno’ Ww ponitio artil they were force sistar alry a ‘The Russians had realized the dan. ger which threatened them and had brought up reinforcements by rail to the region east of Dvinsk; these rm inforce nis very soon made their to the south of that town. able to wheel and effect withdrawal in the direc Molodetehno with their in toward Dokschitzy with their ca ‘The great retreat along the Russian front from Poland into West Russia had, unfortunately, progressed so far that their troops which had been brought up north | were able to reach Vilna in time, The re first cay holesale of fantry tion and alry Its sufficient to overcome to a standstill rength was in the enemy re HAS TO QUIT | FOR THE WINTER | During the gradual advance from Vilna on Smorgon I saw clearly that the operations would have to be off, A continuation of the| movement was out of the question, In the long run it was impossible to keep the left wing of the Tenth army so far forward in face of the hostile cavalry, which was pressing in in creasing st ath upon all sides to avalry divisions hy country between Vilkomir and Svent verted toward Molodetchno (70 miles tween the two placer army, The Vilna-Molodetchno-Polc itzk | reached by the 14th, and the Russian Orscha-Minsk railway was also cut in the east, cavalry found a new principal railways in the rear of the front of more than 90 miles and the IT’S ONLY ONE OF IN A WHIRL OF the to maneuver. In the firet plac siany, which was taken on the 13th.| yo mn. laf vagy le i —— —aaaa 18 Was now possible to bring up railway near Smorgon (60 miles east | 4d right wing on the Vilna, northeast of the neighborhood of Borissoff | 99 fleld for their activities. The German E | Russians, The cavalry forces which THE BIG SENSATIONAL BATHING NOVELTY 3 easternmont force had ridden atx OF THE YEAR, WITH | THE PRETTY Bathin THE MANY BIG FUN, MUSIC AND rmica, from Drvi had to fight their way thru the Ink From here the divisions were di detehnoe Polotsk railway, half way be the cavalry divisions of the th | ot Vilma) and eastward had been Vilna, seriously threatened. The Here, as bad so often cccurred tn cavairy have everywhere given proof (This movement had cut the two made the raids were operating on a 100 miles thru the Russian rear are Spi picy Dolls THINGS IN — STARRI HEBREW COM PRETTY GIRLS - © Ask For —Get Horlick’s The ORIGINAL Malted Milk | amet Safe Milk. 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