The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 15, 1919, Page 14

One of the first instructions sent | F wack from Europe by General Per | | Shing was “Teach the boys to shoot 2 From that time until the ame army made its appea | Battlefield he laid the « ‘on this order and experie him out. ) | Pershing had come into touch at WAL time with the results of what had done when he took the problem presented by the of the Somme late in 1916 master of tactics, saw m of trench warfare SWRA deep dugouts to hide in and Rand grenades to be thrown im de feMee, woul! be fatal to the Germans he set out to teach art of de at & distance | Published by The Star tyrv w Drafts in Hun Armies! ad to Learn Marksmanship He admits it was not easy to teach the new German levies to shoot, but they had to do it, He largely solved his problem by shooting from ma chine gun nests, a system that fitted in with man group paychology This scheme figured with deadly ef fect in all the subsequent fighting done by the Germans The allies, politely amiling at the ideas of Pershing, long neglected the art of individual shooting, and that was one of the reasons the Germans were able to hold out as they did. It was the American shooting that broke up the ont and it was the same of shooting which overturned the al lies’ axiom that "machine gun nest cannot be taken by infantry long distance “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff spectal arrangement with the MoCh 1%. Copyrighted, 1919, by Marper and Brothers All hited in Great Mfitain by Hutchinson & Company and the a Times pain by Mosara. Seix and Mart by Fratelli Treves; In Canada and : Ail rights reserved for France, Belgium, Molland, Russia and the Vian count attached great significance | looser and better adapted to the it I learned about our Infantry. at a fon his visit to the Somme front in September, 1916), their tactics and preparations. doubt they fought too dog | , clinging too resolutely to the Ener holding of ground, with the re-| that the losses were heavy. | The deep dugouts and cellars often fatal man traps. The use of Tifle was being forgotten, hand had become the chief and the equipment of the iry with machine guns and weapons had fallen far be tind that of the enemy _ The field marshal and I could for ‘moment nes should only ask that the front, given were un- of the as a whole, and likely to be of heavy losses. The prob- of the reorganization and equip- of the infantry could be dealt! Only step by step. excessive use of hand grenades ‘Gome about because these could) i and safely employed from | shelter, whereas a man using must leave his cover. In the) fighting of some of our under and also in the large scale by the enemy, where the) at any moment came to be) to man, hand grenades were | ‘weapons for unpracticed men to use than rifles, the lat: | having the disadvantage of | dirty easily could understand that, but in- Must keep able to hold the! Off and to fight from a dis-| When it came to hand-to-hand superiority of the! get short training giv “drafts little could be ticeom. even if the attempt were Complete training was only under the conditions of ‘if the use of the rifle were to) i protection when war came. 3g the case of the hostile infantry, Strength of the men had been increased by machine guns; ‘on the other hand, had still to on our ‘men. We had} fy réason to be sparing of thern. im important change, moreover, had! ; the machine gun had to/ chief firing weapon of the . The campanies must be pro with new light machine guns, ‘serving of which must be done the smallest possible number of Our existing machine guns in Machine gun sections were too i for the purpose. _ In order to strengthen our fire, at Mast in the most important parts of chief theatre of war, it was to create special machine companies—so to speak, ma- gun sharpshooters. Already a ling had been made; it was to consolidate and to in-| it. ‘The fighting power of the infan-| had to be further strengthened trench mortars and bomb throw-| ‘The supply of all qutck-loading | . had to be increased Lastly, the formation of storm| pa from the infantry, which had/| during the war, had not only be regularized, but to be adapted the common good, Thé instruc formation ana the storm bat. had proved their high value intrinsically and for the im- ent of the infantry generally were examples to be imitated the other men. ED THE (EP DUGOUTS The course of the Somme battle | also supplied important lessons | th respect to the construction and| of our lines. The very deep un round forts in the front line nches had to be replaced by shal- constructions, Concrete “pill. pa,” which, however, unfortunate- took long to build, had acquired increasing value. The conspicuous lines of trenches, | which appeared as sharp lines on every aerial photograph, supplied | far too good a target for the enemy The whole system of de- had to be made broader and FOGGY? If Bilious, Constipated or / Headachy take | i Tomorrow the sun will shine for you. Everything will seem clear, ‘Tosy and bright. Your system is | filled with liver and bowel poison © Which keeps your skin sallow, your | stomach upset, your head foggy ‘ana aching. Your meals are turn- oe Into poison, gases and acids, § can not feel right. Don't stay or constipated, Feel splen- Md always by taking Cascarets oc- a onally, They act without grip- or inconvenience. They never you like Calomel, Salts, Ot) x nasty, harsh pills, They cost so He, too—Cascarets work while og | Proved profitable. | the crown prince of Bavaria. du |fronta in various parte of the west) $] there. ground. The large, thick barriers of wire, pleasant as they were when there was littl doing, were no longer a protection. They withered under the enemy barrage. Light strands of wire, difficult to see, were much more useful. Forward infantry positions with a wide field of fire were easily seen by the enemy. They could be destroyed by the artillery of the enemy, and were very difficult to protect by our own artillery Positions further back with a narrower firing field mote under the protection of own guns were retained. Thoy w of special service in big fights. HAD TO ADAPT HIMSELF Much was to be done; so much had | changed, so much become completely | transformed. At the conference in Cambrai these various matters were merely touched on. I got no more than general impressions, but these were enough to show the ne tering the plan of figh improving the army in tactics equipment. On the eastern front we had for the most part adhered to the old tacticn! methods and the old training which we had learned in the days of peace, Here we met with new conditions, and it was my duty to adapt myself to them. T have always been Interested In questions of tactics and armament apart from the fact that these sub-) Jeets formed part of my work in the great general staff at Berlin. Even at that time I had advocated many changes which had now become of the utmost importance. As could clearly have been foreseen, these subjects had now become questions of life or death to the army on the battlefields, and they could not re- ceive too much attention. My responsibility to the army in this matter weighed particularly heavy on me. If, on the one hand, I had perforce to demand the sacri- flee of human lives, on the other I had nobler task, from | never popular, as the men found it too heavy. COUNTRY MUST GIVE MORE Our conference at Canfbrai had ‘The quiet dignity of the assembled army commanders and chiefs of staff who had for close on two years been engaged in great defensive battles in the west, while the field marshal and I had been winning battles in bold offensives in the east, made a deep impression on me. I was strengthened In my determi nation to make the government put into the war what war requires Men, war material and moral resolu tion were matters of life and death to the army. The longer the war lasted, the more urgent they became. The more the army demanded, the more the country would have find, and the greater would be the task before the imperial government, and especially the Prussian war min iatry After the conference we dined with It was only his sense of duty that made him & soldier; his inclinations were not military, Nevertheless, he entered upon his high military position and applied himself to the work it en tailed with great devotion, and, sup- ported by his excellent chiefs of staff, the Bavarian General Krafft von Dellmensingen at the beginning of the war, and now General von Kuhi—met all the great demands made on a commander-in-chiet. PRINCE ANXIOUS FOR PEACE He, like the German crown prince, was in favor of ending the war with. out victory to either side, but he had no idea whether the entente would agree to this, My relations with the crown prince of Bavaria were al- Ways good. Duke Albrecht of Wurtemberg. commanderin-chief of the Fourth army, who was also present, was of @ more pronounced soldierly tempera ment than the two crown princes I seldom had the pleasure of meeting him, and have particularly pleasant recollections of the stimulating con ion {| had with him. He was a eal personality In the afternoon we left Cambrai on our return journey thru Belgium. ac Governor-Gene Bissing companied us part of the way. arranged with him that the arm: occupation in Belgium was to b re as if units were to hold longer jfront in the near future, it was ad visable that Landsturm formations should be put into line here and We also asked for his help in the execution of our plans for the supply of war material. (Tits re quest resulted in forcing Belgians to do war work.) FOUND HIS TASK ENORMOUS On my way next afternoon I dis cussed this matter with Herr Duis burg and Herr Krupp von Bohlen u Halbach, whom I had asked to join the train. They considered it quite possible, in view of our stocks of raw material, to increase our output of war material if only the labor problem could be solved. Early on the 9th, we were back again in Pless, I was now at home in my position and understood my sphere of work. It was an enormous field of labor THE SEATTLE STAR-—SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 1919. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS MRS. BRow BoveHT A NEW HAT TODAY Gee, te NAT SHE, PickeD ovr WAS A PRiGnT 4 | SWe PAID TWENTY Five. DOLLARS FoR IT “4? AS LONG As IT WAS Mes. BRows 1 Weal WAVE TO WELL, IF She Picken IT; sues GOT To Weary id 7 VERY | WEDLOCKED Aw- ITS Goop For Boys To PLAY FooT- BALL- (T FITS FoR. TH’ BATTLES OF LIFE WHICH— [WAY O1ON'T You ] CHASE Those ‘ Boys OUT oO! TH YARO THEYVE BEEN PLANIN’ FOOTBALL THERE LOoKIE ALEK ~ wuaT T FOUND oveR T* Tu’ GOLF GROUNDS- AINT THEM DANDY GOLF BALLS ? 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DREAMED L Went) To THE OTHER | mee ) | | | | COMES ALONG YE DO SOME ‘OF YER VENTRILOQUIST TALK T'COME FROM BACK OF THAT ROCK, AN’ WE'LL FE INQUISITIVE AN’ STOP~ ipa wR SOUNDS KINDA PHONEY ~~~ ‘ i AW-TGOTIT/ \»\% ee vere Me, oa % Me a HELP --— —--—-S. - _ that suddenly opened itself before) mediate object of wearing down our) % a relief ar |me, and many things were expected resistance, the entente had continued | . § } anc ne entente had continued rangements inaugurated at Camb of me with which [had hitherto had|to launch big attacks in great} How the Rumanians missed | |and the new system of reserves 1 nothing to do. Not only had 1 to) strength on parts the battle| | their ce to smash Austria | | jected for the west front no longer |probe deeply into the inner workings |front. After Rumania’s declaration| | iM 1916 is revealed by Ludendorff | | surticea f the war direction, and get 4 grasp|of war, these attacks were renewed| | Monday. ‘The Rumanians | . of both great and small matters that | with fresh vigor, and the entente ro-| | always charged that Russian | | ,,tyigions and other formations nad | affected the homelife of the people,|turned to their plan of a regular] | treachery was responsible for | \in auick, sston and had to stat but I had to familiarize myself with | break-thru their defeat, but it is shown they jin quicker succession a ad to stay great world questions that raised all sorts of problems, wasted pr might have is weeks which The battles that were th used to roll up are among the most fiere n fought ly contest cuperation and training on quiet sec- tors became shorter and shorter. | ‘Our old offices—in one of the|ed of the whole war and far excoed:| | (he exposed Austrian flank, and ¢ troops were getting exhausted, [night's houses of the prince's cas-|ed all previous offensives as regards | | finally allowed one of their arm: | | Everything was cut as fine as puss. tle “were now too small for us.|the number of men and the amount | | {%% 10 be surpriaed and thoroly | | pie fresh ones were taken in the admin ot " = ms : jistrative bulldings of the principality ae reste ae " Russlen stupidity is alo || ee tie: Onoe and ee ne Gf Plees. We ourssives, cocupled the |e North of the Somme the attack given as a reason for the failure | |®* terrible; over and over again we house of Herr. Nasae,, the entate at Tesummed aa early as September] | fy take advantage of the weak: | {Had to find ant saw | Seat Poser m S 2, 2 and laste¢ @ 7th ne en ness of the E rian ents. It nee n nerves of se nt of te’ prtgee of Pleas. Regu-lemy penetrated into our positions \ he Hungarian frontier. | | Co vornis von Gallwitz, Fritz von Be- more and more deeply. On rteom: | $9. — $$$ 4g | low, von Kuhl, Colonels von Loss- ca ol wee be expected, the en ber 5, south of the Somme, the berg and Bronsart von Schellendorft tente's offensive was continued] French also attacked on a wide front of the Somme fighting |(the three latter chiefs of staff), to North jthruout September and October, and wed; but the 25th saw the begin and gained ground at sev 1 points. keep them from losing their heads, jeven later, with unremitting vigor.| On the northern bank fighting be-| ning the heaviest of the many |to systematically put in the reserves |September was an especially critical] gan again on the 9th, and last un-|heavy engagements that made up|as they came up, and, in spite of our jmonth, It was not made easy for us| til the 17th. We were thrown back | the tle of the Somme. Great | failure to eventual succeed in jto embark on an operation in Tran-|still further. Ginchy and Boucha-| Were our losses. ‘The enemy took|saving the situation. Above all, it |syl ania against Rumania, vesness fell inte the enemy's hands,| Rancourt, Morval, nel urt and|nedded troops like the Gaemate.’ |, The battle of the Somme, which|‘The 17th was a day of heavy fight.|the hostly contested Combles. On| In October th re : had started on July 1 with an, at-ling on the so n bank; we lost|the 26th the Thiepval salient fell Strahan ae cea ae m undiminished force, especially on : the northern part of the front. ‘The miscarried, enemy brought up even more men The fighting had made the most/and material. Wo sustained losses, extraordinary demands both on com-'yet an effective stiffening of our de- tempt at a break-thru on a large seale, had been continued thruout/Somme the fighting was somewhat July with the same intention and|less fierce, tho the hostile arullery in the same strength. With the im-!fire was kept up Rerny and Dentecourt, South of the|ureher enemy attacks on the 28th Went, nes A WOMAN “TO PAY ! 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