The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 7, 1919, Page 13

ee r ) in War Was to Keep ! Ladendorff here touches light | son to know were sown with J pattle, mines, and Jellicoe did the Skagerack naval batt esi, 1916. Ho tells of re low has been severely and afterwards the revela criticleed, even in England, for of the German losses which his caution ‘the } The German leaders, whose people were then depressed over the slaughter at Verdun, claimed @ great sea victory, and theevent | was calebraged thruout the coun | try. Admiral Jellicoe, after an exhaustive investigatio =a nounced thas the British lows had been only three ships of the tine, P ghis incident is one of the | { remarkable happenings of war, The German main finally put out to sea for after almost two years of by Admiral von Tirpitz. ‘The British battle crubver squad the Germans, trying fe bold them until the main feet, all battle cruisers, some light under Admiral Jellicoe, coald crulsers and four destroyers, come ap. This force, however, while the Germans had lost at least four ships of the line, in cluding two dreadnoughts and two battle cruisers, while the rest of the fleet was badly bat. tered. The Germans have never revealed thelr exact losses. Their Meet did not venture Into battle again, arrive until dusk was and was able to engage only at brief intervals, German ships made off cover of mist and smoke not hin ‘| Germans retired over waters which the British had rea- ~ ““7Y THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” : By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff by The Star thru spect Arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Copyrighted, 1919, by Harper and Brothers rights reserved. fed in Great Britain by Hutchinson & Company and the Landon Times fin by Mesere. Seix and Hartel; in fttaly by Fratelli Treves, in Canada and i AD rights reserved for France Beigt and, Rusia and the ian countries E At the beginning of June (1916) we 4 the victory of our fleet tn Skagerack battle, another of great achievements in the war Influenced the attitude of the states. But our rejekines by our losses, w! Bast so se heavier than af first The naval action tn the Heligotand ish cruisers dared the mine fields and sank some Cer man ship® on August 2%, 1914, was of no strategical importance. Our cruisers were attracted by the love of adventure. Our feet was more enterprising than that of the enemy We bombarded the English coast that had not been attacked fer cen turies. The battle off the Dogger Bank on January 24 was the result of such an attack Our naval policy of compelling the English to give battle as near our coasts as possible was pursued more definitely, when Admiral Scheer as sumed command of the fleet. On May 31, 1916, he successfully achieved his end. He was not afraid, altho far from all our naval bases. Owing to the caution of the hostile fleet, our naval fortresses did not ap pear to be threatened, and we were able to withdraw their garrisona They went to form the Marine | corps, which was employed on the Flanders coast after the taking of Antwerp, Certain marine divisions also fought with distinction in the I had followed the doings of our with great interest. In peace! ‘we had set great store by it , as a fighting weapon, side by ide with the army, it had to fight vietory to save us from strangu by England. It was to be ex that In accordance with Eng historical traditions, her share p the war would take the form of a r fight against the entire pop of the central powers, regard alike of international law or the of humanity. [It was clear from start that our warships could not the seas open. The Moediter. in division (the Goeben and went to Constantinople. fter the successful Japanese at on Klauchow, whose garrison, up & brave fight, our cruiser | tn East Asia and the South. | '@"¢ campaigns. was left without any sup | DEFENDS THE ‘and compelied to return to the | U-BOAT WAR tle of Coro} Meanwhile the submartne warfare that of the/on enemy ships within a certain zone December 3.) round Engiand began on February Mark the victory, distress and 4, 1915. At the time this was against of our cruiser squadron. the advice of Admiral von Tirpits, battles fill every German heart| who considered auch a plan prema. |ture. We had @ very small number qrulsers and anxillary cruisers of submarines, [ do not know why. with mines, [n any case, what the U-boats ac @angerous to the em | the war as the successes won by laurels to| the crews increased, and they gain unable to|¢d in experience. The submarine All campaign proclaimed on February 4 in did not materialize, as for political fer they will ever be a source |Teasons it was directed excluatvely |against enemy merchant shipa Fur Mediterranean division tn the|‘?¢T ftstrictions soon followed that hole, doom | *tirely crippled it. After the sinking of the Lusitania "| After the sinking of the Sussex on March 24, 1916, Germany declared her Intention of prosecuting the cam paign only according to the rulea of the prize court. The U-boat warfare was thereupon suspended. our enemies did not hesitate to call the U-boat a weapon the use of which was contrary to International law and human principles: This was a surprising doctrine in view of the perpetual violation of interna tional law by the ententa New weapons of war create new interna tional precedents. The United States acknowledged this, in their note to England of March 5, 1915, Sweden. The navy & part of its duties in main-| the freedom of the Baltic in the Baltic, which was of Utmost importance for the sup-, QUOTES of our troops in Courland. In ADMIRAL SCOTT tion to this the fleet practiced in| Admiral Sir Percy Scott, a man West Baltic. ‘The bulk of our fleet was in the th sea protected by our bases at the Et Heligoland Miimtate | | We ought to have sought » de! battle at the beginning of the . This, indeed, was the desire of rand Admiral Yon Tirpitz, tho he not by defeat whose opinion carried weight, took up the same atttude in the Times of July 16, 1914. He wrote: Such a decree—a blockade by means of mines and subma rines—would in my opinion be quite regular; and if English and neutral veasels were to ignore the decree and attempt to break thru the blockade, one could not say that they were following the peaceful pursuits of which Lord Syndenham speaks; were they to be destroyed in the attempt, we could not designate it as a re lapse into savagery, or piracy in its worst form, We were within our rights, as far as the submarine war was concerned in adopting such measures as we con sidered necessary to serve our pur | pose in the war, so long as they were jin accordance with the laws of hu altho tra-|manity and showed due regard for and the war situ-| neutrals. ae ooo have urged her to it.| We found the right solution, and ; ngland won such @ battle it/ no criticism can make any difference, ould have made our iron imports as the future will prove. Sweden an impossibility and THE “WAR Bian, Mbmsrine warfare could never) ov STARVATION” 4 assumed proport At the very beginning of the war, @us to herseit y Britain preserved her fleet: @°s!and, in total disregard of inter Political reasons, She realized | tional Jaw, started the war of star & battle with the German fleet | VU0n against Germany and Austria Might cost her not only her place in| Hungary, This strangling hunger World, but also her prestige| ¥iockade was intended wo to debilitate sufficiently Insist upon it this means could we hope the enemy plans, of which | 4 contemplated an extensive It was in defiance of in onal law, and could only be d out, provided that neutrals, | cia the United States, tole- ENGLAND VOIDS BATTLE” i England avoided battle, n, her strength ions #o danger. | Song her allies and even at home, | the body as to prepare the mind for The other reasons put forward, such |th® poison of propaganda, England ™ the dearth of docks on the east| had another aim: To make war Coast, to enable her to effect swift gs after battle, are not convine- It is not to the credit of Eng § prond navy that she refrain J giving battle. ml ainst the children still unborn, so that a physically inferior race might arise in Germany. A more grnesome method can not be imagined England acted with inexorable con- © only time the German fleet|#istency, as so often before in her Stood up for battle, at Skagera cruel history. Step by step, and of j Re British accepted the chance. The| set purpose, the English government, S ptantn” (tratecy, however, was con-| by orders in council of Auguat ~ ged to run out and try to draw|and October 29, 1914, and other eco- ritish over their mine fields or|nomic and military decrees, sup sett aubmarine nests. Since they| pressed all direct trafc to the Ger- control of the sea and were able|man harbors, all imports thru neu- blockade Germany effectively, ag| tral countries, and even the import of Germans testity, the British re-| the products of neutral countries into 4 to enter upon daredevil tactice | Germany. hunt the rats out of | ‘The trump card was the proclama- 4 Churchill once put it tion of the North sea as “war zone” ) the entente PS | It fell into abeyance for the time, but | great ou M November, 1915, to February, 1916. In their fear of submarine wartare, | Se ce THE SEATTLE GEN. LUDENDORFF DEFENDS SUB. lose to Base oc How critical was the situation on the Russian front in th mer of 1916, when conducted his brilliant campaign, is shown by Ludendorff tomor row, Hoe bluntly shows that Germans had to be rushed ¢ save the remnants of the Au» trians, thinning their own tines to a dangerous degree. y by the barest margin did the Ger. manic powers in the East escape complete dixaster, Finally the | | Austrians appealed to him to | | find a way to save the situation | | and gave him authority to change the dispositl train. | | ing of some of their troops. | » on No approac thereby ne pe to the only proce acrows the beginning « and had de clared that would in principle accept the convention of the dectara tion of London as her standard of ao | tion, Her attitude © years be fore the war was quite differ ent. BLOCKADE “UNLAWFUL” With the declaration of a war zone she had allowed it to be understood that she would no longer herself bound by the regulati crulser warfare as laid down by the prize courts, and also that she con sidered herself justified in the adop tion of violent measures against traf fie in the war sone. Germany was therefore blocked, altho there was no lawful blockade. ‘The only reason why a true according to the rules fare, was that Eng’ lean to hinder traffic in The German declaration of a “war none” February 4, 1915, only a similar measure to the English pree edent, gave England an excuse for! further severity in the economic war ! against the central powers. In the famous order in council of March 11 1915, she declared her intention of seizing all ships entering or leaving Germany. All goods intended f Germany, or exported from there, as | well as all goods in German owner |whip, or of German origin, even if the property of neutrals, could henceforward be taken from neutral ships “MIGHT BEFORE RIGHT | ‘This was another anexamples tn-| | stance of putting might before right. | | England Justified herself by declar ling thie procedure to be an act of reprisal against the submarine war 1915. | |'This defense fell to the ground wher Germany, after the Suswex dase, for |mally renounced submarine warfare Had England acted in accordance |with her declarations, she would | have raised the so-called blockade. | |now that the reason for retaliation had lapsed. But she never thought| mber 2, 1904. The to the North complete off, tra Ps northern nea were | nd the utral led to ' el, sid then n, right yet at the thru the oh ° r h coast, and ¢ 1 in sea. A f the war Eng abe also rckade waa ineffective, of naval war on of much a thing. ‘The blockade went | on as before By order of counctl of June | was revived for a short time between |1916, England finally abandoned the) Come up and give them the “once Declaration of London. In this way |those principles, which, deapite re peated assurances, no one had at mpted to maintain, were formally denoun The violation of in tional law was to be made Ie n We In the cast also felt the effects of England's continued violation of the international law. In the long lrun it was bound to help the cause of the entente, as the United States, both before and after her entry into the war, had given her sanction, and the neutrals of Europe were in Eng. land's power. REFERENDUM TO. END SATURDAY Triple Alliance Candidates to Be Announced A referendum is being taken by the terna arid ke didates ple Alliance to determine {ts can at the coming port and|/ school election. Returns on the refer endum will be le Saturday Candidates for nomination for school board a Mrs, Loraine Wiswell| Wilson, one of the organizers of the | Triple Allia Miss Jean St | | Retail Clerks’ union; George P. List: | | man, president of the Union Labor | bank; Frank A. Rust, sgeretary- man jager of the bank, and David | Turner, president of the Carpenters’ Jocal union 0, 141 Herman Nelson, Orillia; John A McCorkle, president of King county branch of the Alliance; L. Marshall longshoremen. nd L. D. Chamber | lain, carpenter, are nomination candi dates for the port commission roll Two candidates for school board and one for port commission will be| chosen. This is the maiden dip o! the Triple Alliance into politica sir its organization at the Bellingham labor convention last June. ft Guilty Germans to Face Allied Court PARIS, Nov. {United Press.) The supreme council of the peace conference today decided to name a commission for comparing lasts of guilty persons whom Germany must give up as prepared by the different allies, The commission also will decide upon method of procedure and con. duct of the trial 0. D. COLVIN IS BETTER ©, D, Colvin, president of the Pa elfic Car and Foundry company, ll at Providence hospital, was reported improving Friday, omnes eg RR REE eet REA RR tT RR A ES PB STAR SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1919. Sa ne em em PAGES 13 TO 24 ARINES | ‘THEATRE CHAIN SOLD TO LOEW They Bought a Farm and Dug It ER | Up, But Found No Treasure Th ere Td | RAISE AP ORK COPENTIAGEN me rad.|. NEWA " Yov. T.—Tho|tary and treasurer, that the vs ca} tatnloter of Denmasts thistes ‘he | reK of the Enlightenment! ables were buried somewhere on t . [haa solved the question of the hien|0f, the Soul and Spirit will not be| farm, and that a negro woman wid Palace Hip, of Seattle, Is out of lv ny Introducin, aw | al pay thd note it gave r\him in a dream that a man whose . pig. He argues that the pig can |*"¥PPo%ed to contain $2,000,000 worth | uled to disc t ay be fed from the table refuse at little | °C buried treasure, A jury #o decid: | Halsinger wold Loe} nd the wom. NUK, Y. T-—~Mareus expense and that the pig will supply | 4 19 the clreuit court en the farm. ew of w York has purchased | the family with moat during the win It in alleged that Halsinger told) The three church leaders dug up Ackerman and Harris string of ter months. After the law was en.| Frederick Loehra, paator of the con-| most of the farm, but found nothing tres on the Pacific coast, com. forced letters came from every part | #Tekation, and two women, the secre-' more valuable than the soll | prising 20 houses, \t was announced Jof the country from citi who | ——|here today, Ackerman and Harrie |oreve ‘peatua tebe auianien |retain active management and @ 26 |_ “We live near Copenhagen, and| TLE INSE ber cent interest in the houses, age would gindly raise the pig according cording to the ment to the recent edict, but owing to }$ Theatres n the | wood being #0 expensive, to Poon ll ROME, Nov, 7.--One of the most driving out field rats by pumping it | clude ry te: a tyle will cost $100, Will you pay | Prevalent annoyances in the warmer | into t holes In the ground, Cel- | drome. ma; Hippodrome, Porte Z thie?” countries In the all-prevailing bed-| lars are cleared of the pests in the land: ¢ it Lake City; Hippos Chowz Another more laconio complaint DUS. 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