The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 11, 1919, Page 7

} front, with Mackensen, Price Leopold and the Austrians all independent of him in the morning of informed August 29, Wield but of allicd ith the kalser forced me that The tragedy of Verdun, however Was the undoing of Falkenhayn and chief of the general staff One of the thir ,| the opportunity of Ludendorff. Ail | chief, Marshal yy von Hindenburg had been appointed (; the Field tacks on the western front, in Italy mia and south of the Pripet d, while the ¥ by Tue sians, would m: Transylvania ir exposed right flank, or inva Dobrudja, Some to receive Igaria from the where or other we death blow were our ire _ BY BUGENE J, YOUNG fellor” and another Moltke—Hinden:| On the 28th, at 1 o'clock in the field marshal and I had been sum War Bilttor of the New York World | burg and Ludendortt—should take | forenoon chief of the military|moned to take supreme lly y's air in the # © of Germany's fortunes ere it} von Lyncker, tele-|were extremely critical wat cae ee ‘ red Gen, von Hindenburg and) we had hitherto been able to ¢ Oe eae ’ wer, however, would not elf that hin majesty the kaiser! our great war of defense by the bext no by the Kaiser en even to the kalserin. Almost mn, “| our py nee in Pest) means of waging war—the offensive res, Be ce power t he was persuaded by his Inner circle |(the kale headquarters) at once we were now reduced to a policy on. we he had tried te to remove nburg from com-| ‘That sa lay, at 4p. m., we left of pure defense Mey et the court cabs . ve mand a nly dissuaded by his | Brest, never again to return to t! The entente had gathered up all Previous 1 aspired | Wife. 1} ites did succeed, how= jern front, Behind us tay two! thelr strength for a mighty and, as Ve Me chiet of the er, tn upsetting Ludendortf's pla enuous, united, work and | the thought, last great blow nd Bor first military in 1915 to crush the main R vn | mighty vic thrown us on the defensive, and 4 sew army and in having him limited to} Gen, von Lyncker received us on | brought Rumania into the field ng or ltary Qictator jless than « third of the Jtussian | our arrival in Pless about 10 o'clock It wan to be exy that the at be : Tas coat ere many had been shi master ( pay . hter of its sons. appropri - . begin tag Latenstortt ¢ steak ror thrown, week by week could only the French, who would eral staff; but, in an r he cb © to get to, r vee dave had re Assurances that Fr: been expressly he ay hecho ge bled white” and must soon did not satisfy the people jcrown prince—who was blamed for the slaughter, unjustly so, Ludendortt says—was called a “butcher,” and| even the kaiser did not esqape the angry outbursts On top of this came the succems of the Russians, then the bitterhess Moltke, chief of sts ‘of the war, was oh gained his place by flat Whe the blunt and deadly ef fiient military men of the Luden © men at the front would be overcen the imperial chancellor > who to the same aaen ween |#teps being taken To save himself and his dynasty | PRAYS TO GOD the kaiser had to dismiss Palkenhayn FOR STRENGTH and invoké the popular idolatry that! ary position was a thankl had been built around the names of! a, 1 fully seatieed Ter Hindenburg and Ludendortf. They| my duties with a mered deste had just closed the gap on the east-/ang think nothing that did n ern frontier and he had to summon | tribute to bring the war them to save the west. In the end|torious end, For this purpose he had to surrender almost all his|naq the field marshal military authority to Ludendorff. | catied upon. ‘The task “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” enormous, ‘The awful _ By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff ‘ty The Star thru spe teh 1919, by fa Great Britain by Hut dy Mevara Seix and Bai All Fights reserved for countries, Augiet 27, 1916, Rumania de-|reward of Hungary's selfish policy dared war on Austrin-Hungary. The | and we the fruit of our passive acqui dm monarchy thereby reaped the | escence. jp attempting to drive to the chan et ports. Fakkenhayn, another favorite of the kaiser, succeeded to command. in due alliance with that other im pal favorite, Chancellor von Beth. . Against their weak games and indecision in conducting aihirs arose a clamor from the mill- frets and funkers of Germany, with | that another “iron chan nL gah il 2 dS48 single instant and uncommonly comprehensive. Newspaper reserved 2 Times adn and | unprecedented y Fratelli Treves; tm strength for my new o! The ciroumatan FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE wo Initialed Handkerchiefs for Holiday Giving Are Best Chosen Early HERE’S no substitute for the right initial when Initialed Handkerchiefs are the object of the gift-quest—and there’s ‘No insurance against disappointment like choosing them early in the season. 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Initialed Handkerchiefs of sheer Irish lawn, which is so soft and fine _ 48 to rival linen in beauty—some with French-cord edge and white hand-embroidered initial, others with colored initial surrounded by bowknot, hand-embroidered in pink or blue, 25c each. Colored-embroidered Handkerchiefs Box of 3, 65c i Just receiv: d, 180 boxes of these dainty Handkerchiefs with their LA corded borders and colored corner embroidery. Well arranged sets of three, in boxes, 65e. ee ae Children’s Handkerchiefs Box of 3, 50c i ; hi, embroidered with juvenile figures and animals are these White aa ndkerchiefs, with well-hemstitched hems, box of 8, 50c. —First Floor. °, and was Present in Pleay at the time, apoke t. The subject of | sponsibility did not leave me for a The field of action | air was, in many respects, entirely new We also had to reckon on Increased We were engaged in a battle of Titans unparalleled in history. Qur nerves and muscles braced them: selves instinctively, for it was a vue of waving the Fatherland from ition of extreme peril, ax J menberg and in yund Lodz, in leas but no lew serious cir weft type remained © back-/of the Somme, when the great| Peace Was not touched on by him goand. Moltke had t 1) masses of British and French artil.| The gravity of the situation must after the disaster of lery began the pou ne th took | M4Ve often brought it to mind. Th Me exizavagant expenditure of men | away tens of thousands more of Ger. |enemy's intentions prevented any!" (, the western front the Verdun ° was dying down, and in the ear days of July the battle on the omme had not brought the entente the break-thru they hoped for The second battle of attrition of »| the year 1916 had since then been in full swing on both banks of the Somme, and was raging with un precedented fury and without a mo ment’s reapite When the battle of the Somme be gan the entente had a tremendous superiority, both on land and in the neral headquarters was sur at first, Reinforcements The | Were quickly thrown in, but it had Never has Pate before suddenly ece Belgium, Molland, Russia and the placed so heavy a burden on human ited extent, shoulders. With bowed head I pray: | ed God the All Knowing to give me | thelr way further and further into s in which the| losses in men and material amount of work involved was quite| Never succeeded in wiping out the lenemy’s supertority in artillery, mu: nitions and alreraft, even to a lim The entente troops had worked We had heavy At that -|time the front lines were still |atrongly held. The men took refuge Jin dugouts and cellars from the enemy's artillery fire. ‘The enemy Jinfantry, coming up behind their j barrage, got into the trenches and | villages before our men could craw! out from their shelters. A continu ous yield of prisoners to the enemy was the result | STRAIN WAS TREMENDOUS If} ‘The strain on physical and moral strength was tremendous, and di the German lines. for a few days at a time. |to be frequently relieved, and sent to recuperate on quiet fronts line—we had not enough men. The |number of available divisions was | shrinking. In view of the shortage of artillery | it was now kept in the line, even) lwhen the divisions were relieved. battleworn divisions had, in tarn, to leave their artillery behind them and result was that units were hopelessly mixed up. The shortage of ammunition tn- creased daily, General headquarters | | | received the ammunition from the} war office in the form of ammuni, tion trains, which I myself distribut-| jed daily among the armies. I was always hearing what they required, jand knew how them, Mine was indeed a sad and | harassing task The situation on the western front gave caune for greater anxiety than I had anticipated, but at that I did not realize its full signifi . It was Just as well, I whould never have had the to make the important de | wis | courage from the heavilyengaged western front to the eastern, in order to re |B | cover the initiative there and deal | Rumania a decisive blow N FIGHT The field marshal and I intended, As soon an conditions allowed, to go to the western front to see for our selves how matters really stood there. Our task was to organize a stiffer defense and advise generally But before we went there some di. visions w ot ready for Rumania, , the emperor, was d to giv the momentous or ‘or the cessation of the offensive at Verdun On the Italian front, too, the situ ation had become wore. Gener von Conrad said that the army h already protected the frontier for one and a quarter years, and would to do #0. More he could ‘This in itself was not par cheering After the failure of the first great blow against France in 1914 there had been no change in the situation, and F Marshal von Moiltke's prophetic words of May 14, 1890, had | become a fact | “If the war which for more than 10 years has been hanging over, our heads like the sword of Damocles |if this war ever comes, its duration and end cannot be foretold. The 3 continue not say. | ticularly pose one another, (have never bee be ‘e. Not on of them could be so completel¥ over thrown in one or two campaigns that it would be compelled to admit defeat and declare its readines® to accept the hard conditions that peace would mean without rising again to jrenew the struggle within a year. It might be a seven, it might be a 30 years’ war. * * *” FELT SUPERIORITY OF ALLIES The longer the war lasted the more acutely we felt the overwhelming su- pe ity of the enemy in numbers }and war material. | On our side the first two years had exacted a heavy toll; the flower of our fighting strength lay under the |sod. But the army was still strong and resolute, and had been able to preserve or liberate, not only the frontiers of the Fatherland, but also thowe of its allies in the Buropean | theatre Only on the eastern front had we |now suffered a reverse, and that be we the fighting of the Aus ro-Hungarian army was still on the decline We had succeeded in calling a halt to our retreat there. We were to re , enemy activity in the Asiatic theatre. | visions could only be kept in the line|man-power, war material and mora! | ‘They had | resolution It was!to influence our allies in the same/ imponalble to leave them behind the| sense. Auntria had already raised the! | Divisions which were released bY | quarters must devote more attention come up behind the battle front. The | tories, little I could give! Other: | cision to transfer still more divisions) N Kreatent powers of Europe will op-| 1 as they! KAISER FORCED TO GIVE LUDENDORFF AND HINDENBURG FULL CONTROL OF OPERATIONS in our power to do #o, but it de nanded further German help. Aur tria Hunge tinued to be a drain on German blood and German war | ALY ©¢ The same was true of Bulgart Turkey, althe and for tr wan not " but their concern wan ey, military equipment and transport material, Germans had to help everywhere, We did so jin many cases without the necessary | return | WHOLE BURDEN ON GERMANY The bur rectly reli len on us wan certainly di ed by our allies them the war would have been un thinkabl they did their shar® Vallantt onwidered they ha natural right te constant #u tho their y equaled ours. Th the war lasted the more detrimental must con] stant allied claims on any bo! te ® quadruple alliance as a| who! whe ntic burden of | thia war lay on our shoulders. We had 6,000,000 at the front against 10,000,000 of the en i equipment of | war material ja sew lof the Somme how great wa enemy in this respect When we 4 to thin the hatred and immense determinatic en tente, their starvation or} stranglehold, and their minchievous and lyin anda, which was so} te ob: nd her allies erything they had, both in manpower and indus trial resources, and unless every man who went to the front took with him from home a resolute faith in vietory and an unshakable conviction that] the German army must for | the sake of the Fatherland | dier on the battlefield the most terrible strain that any man | jean undergo, #tands, in his hour of | need, in dire want of this moral rein forcement from home, to ¢ to stand firm and hold ow’ front DEMANDS MORE MAN POWER In the situation in which the field | marshal and I found ourselves and in view of our whole conception of the character of this war and the ene |my's determination to destroy us, we | considered it essential to dev the economic, physical and moral] strength the Fatherland to the highest degree nqu who endures | } General headquarters’ demands on | the imperial government comprised | We endeavored, as far an we could. age limita of the Landsturm to 55 and Turkey rained the limit of lia bility to service to 60, Bo they made the utmost use of their man-power at any rate, on paper. In such a situation general head- than ever to the question of using | the resources of the occupied terri These were the definite changes made by general headquarters for the future ‘The chief of the naval staff advo-| cated unrestricted submarine war} |fare, which would apply to neutral! ships also in the barred zone. annie That | wd | ° | |was the most effective that the navy could render the army jin its desperate struggle. It wax doubtful whethe® the en emy's naval forces would again give | battle; an attempt to bring it on had| in August, but without re-| my minefields progressive ed the freedom of our high , and limited its use, The question of the unrestricted | U-boat war was discussed as early as! August 30, at the request of the im perial chancellor | | Without |] It was a matter of immediate nm cern to the fleld marshal and myself | that any part of our naval forces} should simply le idle in this con-| test of n Tt was not enough help for the army merely to keep} }the Baltic open, ntribute the | naval corps in Flanders, while the operations of the entente received de-| elsive assistance from their navy Only with extreme regret could we [refuse to pronounce in favor of un. restricted submarine warfare, on the | |cround that, in the opinion of the imperial chancellor, it might possibly | lead to war with Denmark and Hol- | | land. | ; We had not a man to «pare to} | proteet elve t these states, | were unac in a post to inva thblow Germany We shoul ve ted bef the effects promised by the navy, of an unre stricted U-boat campaign, could hive made themselves felt he discussion, however, afforded an opportunity of overhauling our] defensive arrangements on the Dan ish and Dutch frontiers, The north-| ern command was instructed to} fortify these fronticr lines. ‘The governor-general in Brussels was asked to hurry on, as much as avail able labor permitted, the construction | of fortified lines on the Belgian frontier, with which a beginning had already been m x ~ % | How heavily Rumania weigh- ed on his mind, when he took | | | full command of the German | armies in 1916, Is shown. by | | { Ludendorff tomorrow. Ho lacked | troops to meet the great menace of the Rumanian advance into { Transylvania and bh denude | | | the eastern front still further, | | | He also found Bulgaria very selfish ally, who | her own aims, without re | the fort HUNGER THE TEST | OF MAN’S HONESTY)! CHICAGO, Nov, 1.—Mra, M Rallington Booth, head of the n, told 4 the Ro that, until they had been hunger, it was unwise to rather starve than stea) Booth, recently returned from war prison camps abroad, spoke in be half of prison reform. PAGE 7 FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE Quite in Accord With Juvenile Charms are Wee Tots’ Winter Coats and Hats HE’LL know it’s Winter because there is fur on her coat, but that is about the only way the knowledge can reach her when she is snugly enveloped in one of the New Coats, which are a delight to the eye. It doesn’t require much imagination to picture a brown-haired tot in the Garnet Velvet Coat pic- tured. It is given a round-yoke effect by lacing of self-cord through eyelets and the collar is edged with nutri Lined with white silk and warmly interlined. Price $37.50. Created especially for this Cc: t is the little Hat pictured, combining garnet velvet with two bands of nutria. Price $11.00, Another example of Fashion’s thought for ex- treme youth is an African-brown Velvet Coat with Empire line suggested by several rows of’ smock- ing. Bands of beaver encircle collar and cuffs and beaver balls march down the front. Lined with brown sateen. Price $25.00. The smart Hat to wear with this Coat is a White Mushroom Beaver, with band and bow of white grosgrain ribbon, $7.50. Hanging in broad box plaits from a novelty yoke is a Burgundy Velour Coat with self-color velvet collar and cuffs and burgundy sateen lining, $17.50. A Tricorne of Burgundy Velvet for wear with this Coat has brim caught up by beaver buttons. Price $6.50. silk tassels—and it has streamers, too, of black grosgrain ribbon. Price $15.00. And now -for baby brother—A double-breasted Coat of wide-wale ‘cor- duroy, buttoning close at neck and fastening over large bone buttons. Two-year size, $13.50. “ An appropriate choice for wear with this Coat, is a little Tam of fine quality black silk velvet, simply finished with band and streamers of grosgrain rib- bon. Price $5.50. A Coat of Black Imported Velveteen with high waistline defined by cord shirring and fastening over smoked pearl buttons; lined with black sateen, $18.50. To wear with this Coat, there is a Hat of fine quality black silk velvet, formed by a succession of hand-stitched folds and sprinkled by bobbing black Second Floor. In a Recent Shipment: Seasonable Coatings of Distinctive Beauty and Merit FEATURED are many gracious new tones of the established favorites as well as notably new fabrics forecasting suit and coat modes of ap- pealing ‘smartness. Duvet de Laine, in luxurious Browns and Blues, 56 inches wide, at $8.00 Yard. Silvertone Velours, exquisitely toned in American Beauty and Jade, 56 inches wide, at $6.00 Yard. Velour in fashionable Brown and Blue, 56 inches wide, at $6.00 Yard. Doeskin, a supple new coating of sur- prising weight has its origin’ in broad- cloth with a surface finish of kitten- ear. In Brown, Blue and Burgundy, 56 inches wide, at $6.50 and $7.00 Yard. Louisette, another newcomer into the circle of elite fabrics, which has a2 sumptuous beauty akin to duvetyn. In Maduro Brown, 56 inches wide, at $12.50 Yard. Checked Silvertone, a new suiting of convincing style and pleasing tone, des- tined to fashion the piquant tailleurs of early spring. A criss-cross stripe of black forms small checks on foundation colors of Henna, Cocoa Brown, Gray, Tinseltones in warm Browns shot with threads of Silvery Blue or Red, 56 inches wide, at $7.50 Yard. Peachbloom in shades of Maduro, Reindeer, Gazelle,»Beaver, Pekin Blue and Purple, 56 inches wide, at $10.00 Yard. 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