The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 6, 1919, Page 13

RY ERUGENE 4. YOUNG Verdun was a tragedy for the Germans. Their great prepara wipe out the formidable ghold and “to bleed brought only hug the downfall of Fatken losses, hayn as chief of staff, and con demnation of the crown and kaiser as butchers of Ger man manhood ‘ar off in the east, however nm had an echo that was equally tragical to the was in reality victory for Germans | Those who knew what was going on in France at the time | of the Verdun attack clearly re member with what brave appre hension the people watched the struggle. They were pouring in the best of their manhood to stop the assaults, and were suc ceeding; but scarcely would they lean back to breathe when the Germans would bring up yet more men and hurl them to the attack, Is there no limit to their manpower? France asked. She turned to ber allies and desought them to do something te turn the German reserves in other directions, The British, preparing at the Somine, could not move until July, The Ital jans responded with another at- tack on the teonzo and gained little. The Russians were the only ones who could do anything te relieve the strain. Se in the middie of March, when the swamp area of Cour land and Lithuania was at its worst, when the “roads were bot- tomless,” as Ludendorff puts it, the Russians started the grand attack south of Riga which was intended to crush the northern wing of the German army in Russia, and, in the end, roll up the entire line, It was a great army Russia had gathered for WATIVE B BLISS TABLETS Recognized for 30 years as the only standard herb remedy for CONSTIPATION Disordered Stomach, Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headaches, a fa ous a Kidney and Liver Regulator Guaranteed to give satiat or qponey refunded. Put L@o sizes, SOc and $1.00. “Get the genuine. 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Alexteff, to whom In November and De 5.| which in ite nature demanded for the cmr had given command, | OUr successes against succems much more manpower than German forces on that front had | Montenegro had brow we had at our posal, Yielding to been thinned to the lowest point | fourth Isonso battle, ¢ this demand led ¢ pervous to give troops for Verdun. {Christmas the Russian offe weaker ern font, | the southern portion of t where t way already crit: | All factors were favorable ex cept the season, That j Huagarian front. Thies with the Germans, As La | Ete Aanuny Ue 2808, Seth soncles dorff points out, the ambitious |“! 1" & successful resistance on the offensive was “choked in blood | P&ft Of our allies and swamp.” German machine | The two general staffs had now to gunners were able to mow down | ™M&ke thelr plans f car m the Russians by thousands as | Of 1916. Doth were to attempt an they tried to push their way | offensive to bring aby a decision thru the morasses. At one point, The German command was to attack near Lake Narotch, after the |&t Verdun, while the Austro-Hun s had pushed back over | €4rlan command was to invade Italy ground they had lost, they (from the Tyrol © ed 9,000 dead foemen. From a strategical voint of view of attack ress had Jas a particularly dan, port, which very seric 4 our rear communications n Of 1918 disastrously Even then the Russians barely missed victory. Ladendorf ad mits they almost opened the way to Kovno and their great sweep- ing movement to the sex Had they been able to walt six weeks as the autun or two months, what might they | P*¥ed. (le refers to the American not have done? Then the scores | S¢vance from the Argonne forest of thousands of men and the | Wich finally cut the main German great masses of ammunition @ thru Sedan,leeding to Mets) to reach the Had we only been ab’ t bank could have been used with vital effect in the north while Brussl. | defenses on the 5 of the lof was smashing the Austrians | Meuse we should have achieved in the south.. But the il-fortune mngeete quosses. Our strategie po nition on the western front, as well the tactical aituation of our troops In the St. Mibiel salient, would have been materially improved. that had followed the Russians all thru their campaign was still with them, They had helped the rest, but had only brought their own crash nearer, So Ver Tur attack began on February 21 dun paid Germany something. and had a great success, capecially Ladendorff declines to solve | uring the early days, owing to the the mystery of what was in the | Yriliant qualities of our men. The | advantage, however, was insufficient minds of the German high com- 4 and ¢ mand in making the attack on Verdun, At one moment he treats it as tho it were an oper- y exple advance soon came to a begin } ning of March the world was sti! ne un ation of limited scope, intended | “er the impression that the Germans only to wipe out the dangerous | 81 won 8 victory at Verdun To make th ¢ against Ver sally-port which pointed toward the vital lines of communi A pow ery had to of the German armies in France transferred from the German cnet front to the wes T high com and toward the vital coal and iron fleids of the Briey-Longwy district. But again he says the Ger mans were to attempt “an of- fensive to bring about a de clsion.” Perhaps the clue is given in the remark that by the capture of the Verdun fortress “our strategic situation on the western front would have been materiatiy improved.” Probably the Germans had seme larger thing in mind to be taken up after they had wiped out the menace to their communications, me pumas pion “ jmand had withdrawn more divisions |from Serbia, and in order to rein jforce the Italian front the eastern jfront had been greatly weakened by the Austrian general staff. Both offensives suffered from the fact that inadequa’ reserves pre vented the first successes from being followed up. At Verdun, perhaps, as the offensive was limited, from a tac tical point of view, we might have obtained a moderately favorable con. | clusion at not too high a cost. 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This offered great possi. | bilities, If, ler pressure from us, Kumants turned to the entente, we should, any rate, have known how matters stood. We could act with out delay with the troops on the spot al the time, The German offensive at Verdun | in March brought om the fifth Leonzo | jbattle. This Itallan attack, there |fore, took place long before the con [templated Austro-Hungarian offen- nive, It was once more unsuccess | RUSSIANS WERE | AMBITIOUS The Russian army also came on | the scenes. It. movement in the second half of March against our) Kastern front was much more than jan attempt of a relief offensive. It | was to be a decisive battle, and had [been undertaken in this spirit. Cap- [tured army orders were found, speak. | Ing of driving the enemy back be | lyond the frontiers of the empire, | | Since the beginning of March ru had been current of a,pro-} pored, offensive against Vilna. A concentration of troops had been ob served east of Bmorgon (50 miles ast of Vilna). The Smorgon-Viina region seemed to be Indl ports of a mi reached us from Dvt stadt (140 and §5 miles sout Riga and the latter 150 miles north f Smorgon). Counter measures were taken, We gathered that it was not ex acuy imminent, and I decided to go for two days to Berlin on family matter and attend the we — of Captain Prince Joachim of Prussia, who had been a valuable member of ir staff since autumn, 1914, 1 was Gerlin March 11 and 12, when f receive news which seemed to Indl ate the attack was to begin > I was relieved to tind welt b kK at Kovne ' iaian bombardment b not however. in the Smorgon | exion an I expected, but the narrow front between Lakes aretch and Vischniev, on both sides the Sventsiany-Potsavy railway. and southwest of Dvinsk. (This waa! s line of about 90 miles, running | directly south of Dvinsk.) The uel was of unprecedented in-! for the eastern front. It wae ed on the 17th. On the 18th| inta attacks began and con-jemy. It achieved wonde Fu We reckoned on a continuation of | to bolster up the fronts further south, |? the other hand, considered milk i ued with intervals until the end/north at Dvinsk the enemy mad the great Russian offensive. The|A very intimate connection sprang | "Y necessities and nothing else. resent | Somnrty Governing etacks rmies were organized accordingly | UP between the tactical operations of SRR eS AIMED TO CUT |Visions of the oldest classes foUKNt) | 4 reserves held in readiness. By |the army group under Field Marshal Ludendorff tomorrow taunts OFF WING jwith the same sacrifice as the | 10. of general headquarters certain |Prince Leopold of Bavaria and that|| the “proud British navy” for not The Russian aim was to cut oft |YOUNseT comrades at their sid German divisions with the Austro- | 0f the commander-in-chief in the cast,| | forcing a battle with the Ger sur north wing in the direction of}, The front was j ularly thin at] iiingarian army were sent to us.|as, indeed, between the whole Ger-|| man fleet. He admits, however, Kovno, ar Jakobstadt, but the West Prussian |y ios, May fresh attacks from the |man and Austro-Hungarian fronts. | | that the policy of the latter was compel It to retreat by | attacks at other points. In the sec ond stage it was to be thrown back| gainst the coast north of the Nie-| non. This plan was cor ed ona The first move in thia enveloping rocess wan to by our front in the direction of entsiany (50 miles ast of Vilna, by the two at-| from the Visch v-Norotch | at Postavy The front) Our re-| ak tacks sector and wan wide and well chosen erves would have been insufficient | to close up the gap. « was very Besides this. difficult to rush them ip to the line, owing to the bad} allway connection with LAke Na re The iiway was in process | of construc If the gap were} noe forced the rest would follow. The way to Kovno would le open. | The attacks on the northern por. tion of our front were made from| the south of Lake Drysviaty, near/ Videy (within 40 milea of Dvinsk southward), and chiefly from the! bridgeheads at Dvinsk and Jakob tadt From the 18th to the 21st of March the situation of the Tenth army was seritieal, and the numerical superior ity of the Russians overwhelming. On the 2ist they won a@ success on the narrow lake sector which affect ed us gravely, and even the attack west of Postavy was only stemmed with difficulty, ROADS WERE | BOTTOMLESS The ground had become soft, and| in that marshy country water col lected tm ponds; the roads were liter- ally bottomless, The reserves which we drew from the Tenth army could) only make slow progress from the| Vilna-Dvinek railway by wading bared the swamps, Elveryone was strung up to the highest pitch of anxiety, | wondering what would happen next | Bat the Russians, whose offensive ‘had led them into heavier ground than we had in and behind our posi- tions, were exhausted, and when the Russian offensive again reached its highest pitch on Mareh 26 we bud practically overcome the crisia, = wepperenman erga me aaenpsnenyaneptn sin mere AE SEATTLE STAR—-THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1919. AT DID TRAGIC ATTACK AT VERDUN MEAN? UDENDORFF LEAVES MYSTERY UNSOLVED | “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” | By Gen. 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Altho hol lone front in which we employed the ar | the Carpathians. of its powers it jealously maintained front, the “Leibh en’ tillery methods which had now be-| The front of the commander-in-|the Austrian point of view, of not” compelled to defend iteelf at Videy | come customary in the west. The re-|chief in the east was therefore de.|!etting Germany's military predomi against the massed attacks of the en-| quit was good. | nuded as occasion required, in order |D&"ce become apparent. Germany, — ig rt ge Pay ht iy Tiga bridgehead and the region of| (He refers to the situation created! | to keep close to its base and The attacks of the enemy collapsed. | rnvon seemed imminent, Welin the east by the jealousy among|| that it was not allowed to go The Russian offensive was petering oo easures accordingly, and even |the German and Austrian army lead-|| out and fight early in the war. out by the end of March, Ag had | {00% Wensinye atte of our |jers. By decree of the kaiser, Hinden:| | He also tells of the celebration been truly said, without exaggera- °" it with the inadequate forces |burg and Ludendorff had been con-|| of the supposed victory of the ftom, been choked In “swamp | 4+ our disposal, thi nsive could | fined to the northern end ofthe line,|| fleet at Skaggorack and the and blood.” The losses suffered by | oi) ne 4 local one at Riga, With the | the Bavarian prince, Leopold, had his dampening that came when the the Russians had been extraordinar: | (0.4 of removing that very incon-| separate command in the center and| | {ruth of the German losses was lly heavy ent t head |the Austrians had theirs in the south.| | discovered, He defends the U- GERM At the end of May his majesty vis-|The new peril, however, compelied| | boat .war as being in the same TRAL COUNTS ited us. The kaiser went over the |t2¢ Germans to send troojn south) | category as the British “war of Our thin lines, manned by well-| whole of the area controlled by the |" was forcing the headquarters to-| | starvation. trained and brave troops, with thelr commanderin-chief in the east, The | ether.) x - _ ——4 proper quota of off had tri-| fold marshal and I accompanied him.| The previous arrangements be. |——————________4 umphed over the massed ‘attacks of | We giso went to Mitau. 1 shall never tween the two general staffs had been fforts of our troops had been very | eq there. who went for |DUt never contemplated such a situa strenuous owing to tho swampy |the first th these Baltic prov. |tion as developed out of the Russian ground and we i her. | inces the same feeling that here |ofensive. It was now imperative to The fre of the ‘comn 'D- was a piece of their own native soil, | Wet quickly erence to the two t chief tn the east had survived its frst) ay ontente in May, 1916, were|#eneral headquarters in Charleville Gront Gatenaive Goes planning a powerful assault on their )(German general headquarters) or} ’ One would expect such a defen: me formidable enemy—the German Pless (the kaiser's headquarters) and ——— bate $0 Re leon. me urmy. In the west there was to be|Teschen (the Austrian headquarters) It Throws Off Poisons—Keeps You an o! much more nerve-rack must content reserves at | might mean a loss of time that could | the offensive on the Somme, In the never be recovered. t the Russians were to start an/| off with Baronovice (on north edge of the Pripet swamps, 300 miles ot Ri Smorgen and Riga as its critical points. Their operations on the Austr Hungarian front in the beginning of June, in the region of Lutsk, Tarno: In Shape to Resist Disease Even in the great March offensive! At this time'ot the year, when coe |our liaison system had been found in. | le grippe andginfluensa are in the air. |convenient. We were only able to, 18 Of greatest Importance to keep your pica ied - cay, | liver, kidneys and bowels in goo javold friction because we always | working order. When these, organd o. | Worked so well with the army group) fail to carry off the poison wastématter of Field Marshal Prince Leopold of | your vitality and resistance are weak= Bavaria and Woyrsch's group under! ened. You are an easy victim for in+ caenbed sand disease germs, pol and on the Dniester, were more his command. feotions anc “Bil eae in the nature of a demonstration, At| From that time the question of a h larger reserves were con-|single command has not been lost reality tt is The commander himself with providing the right time, but for this to be pos sible the reserves must be avatiab That is a diMecult matter when the ommand is forced to live from hand to mouth, as we had to Further, it is not easy ‘s mind to transfer direction of the attack Is naive southeas to make up reserves be ¢ fore the u Don’t neglec! known with certainty, and yet it has ee warnings : behind the selected sectors | Sight of, First, the proposal to put them, Go at oncesto your |to be done, or they will arrive too | (e “man front than in the|Prinee Leopold's group under the druggist and eta package late, Nor is it easy to expect the/y isk and Bukovina sectors, command of the commander-in-chief | of Lincoln Tea, ‘ake subordinate commands to give up| their reserves, when they themselves | anticipate attack, But the cordial re in the east was frequently discussed, gup each Bien and you’ But a wholesale change—such as war © surprised how soon it will put you in tune and (It was in this section, the southern part of the battle line, however, that jis constantly calling for—was what |Gen, Brusiloff broke the Austrian make you teel like new lations which existed between Lieut. |100. iy June and captured over 200,.| Was feqaired, and that meant that the| Lincoln Tea is '® famous old herb Col, Hoffman and myself and the | 99 prisoners.) commander-in-chief in the east would | Temedy for chronio constipation, colds, various army commanders enabled | ""y, Dita an wating victories over the |have to take over the command of | ®8tiPp®, influenza, billousness, head= aches and rheumatism. .t is gentle us to settle these serious problems M the whole eastern front from the Gulf | Austro-Hungarian troops induced her ‘om the Gul without friction, to the general ben: | AU® angerean: troops Induced bes | (+ wigh te the ORimeIMAEee but positive and leaves no unpleasant to the general bento abandon her proposed offensive after-effects like violent physics. eae rn td dawn e {against the front of the commander-| But bitter experience was needed | , Nothing is better for the children, Ae Apel things auleves Bown: inchief in the east, except for the| before this change was effected, Tr | A occasional cup keeps them in the FIRST IN EAST On April 28, in a vigorous opera tion, carefully prepared by powerful artitlery, the Tenth army recaptured the lost ground between Lake Na RUMEFT " move in the direction of Baranovice, |and concentrate all her efforts against | Austria-Hungary. The more the Ger-| problem, In the first place, the Aus: man front proved itself inviolate, the | trian general staff, for reasons of so- more eagerly did the Ry, turn | called prestige, found it difeult to from it to hurl thi against | contemplate any limitation of its grok of condition. 5 ‘ ru; Lincoln Proprie' relevant matters that had nothing to jdo with the issue aggravated the