The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 17, 1919, Page 10

a _ RUMANIA FAILED TO OPEN PASSES--LUDENDORFF: WERE UNACCUSTOMED TO LARGE SCALE WAR BY BUGENE J. YOUNG Rumania ered the war with the reputation of having the best nission of Ludendorff that th mountain passes were — take without firing a shot, Only a th army in the Balkans, All line of cavalry was in front of Other small nations had stood in this superb force, and the Ger awe of her be © of this mans and Austrians were at tradition, The chancellories of their wits’ end to gather scatter. the entente alliance 1 the troops from all fronts in the German capitals had conducted hope of trying to impede the in vasion. ‘These troops could not be gathered for weeks. The Bul garians were so busily engage along contest to win her support Germany offered to restore the lands taken from her by Russia, and the entente offered to restore Transylvania, taken by Hungary The Hohenzollern king was be shows sought to stand by his family rn flank of the Ger and the Russian-English queen man-Austrian position in the east lay open to a swift advance gave her port to the strong party ‘which remembered that | Debouching into Hungary thro the Rumanians were fF ns a land populated by their own and kin to the Italians and race and bound to assist them In French. every way, they could have been When Rumania entered the cutting the lines behind the hard war s great sigh of hope went pressed Austrians in Galicia long up from the entente nations, before an army could have been Here was the sign that the brodght up to oppose them, and shrewd men of Bucharest had thus ld have opened the decided that the entente’s was passes of the Carpathians for a the winning side. What Germany Russian advance to guard their thought is plainly shown by right flank. Ladendorff. The military chiefs, But hesitation selzed their com: | hard pressed on all fronts, felt | mand. They remained close to this was the blow which was the mountains, They did not even likely to be their end guard themselves well, Weeks Rumania has charged that her after they should have been defeat was duc to treachery at making a swift march toward Petrograd-—that the Russians de Hungary prope ch as they made this year, they were caught with their b: the Alps, with | no room for maneuvering 1" the foray of a small force of € mans thru the hills they left un guarded closed the Red Tower | pass and led to the defeat of the best part of their army in the south, | Panic spread in their army. They were beaten again by the swift advance of an inferior Ger- | man foree, and they did not re- gain their fighting ability until they came back behind their mountains, with the enemy on three sides of their richest prov ince and able to make his own plans for thelr defeat. Why they stopped with scarce. ly anything in front of them will - bear explaining by Rumania, Mberately drew her into the war and then betrayed her so she might be left helpless at the end of the war and Russia thus have a chance to absorb her, crush | Buigaria, and thus have the free road to Constantinople that had been her long-held dream It is true Russia did not send | the help she expected and that | | she was left to conduct the war on her own hook. Yet in the light of the revelations made by | Ladendorff the excuse is hardly | sufficient. ‘The Rumanian army, long pre pared for action, advised by French strategists of the first rank, struck quickly across the | Transylvanian Alps in the first | days of September. What a | chance it had Is shown by the ad | “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff Published ty The Star thru special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper | Copyrighted, 1919, by Harper and Brothers All rights reserved. | ted in Great Britain by Hutchinson & Company and the Londen Times: | MSpain by Messrs, Seix and Bariel, in Italy by Pratell Treves; im Canada and | juetralia Ail rights reserved for France, Belgium, Holland, Russia aod the inavian countrine, On the eastern front (earty In Sep) that this apparent Russian stupidity gfember, 1916), general headquarters | was, instead, treachery. They were ‘attempted first of all to convey Ger-| promised troops to support their ad Man troops to the Maros section (In| vance into Hungary and to guard Eastern Hungary), in order to give |againat the attacks of a in weak Austro-Hungarian defense |the Dobrudja, their Black sea fron eerain stiffening. That was our| tier, Germanic intrigues in pers k. Next, a clear understand-|grad are declared to have w! agen to be arrived at regarding | these plans and the failure of the the direction of operations against | Russians to keep their part of the Rumania, ang new arrangements had | torenin. led to the sms bpresa ne 40 be made north of the Carpathians. |of the Rumanians, which Luden: ‘The deployment on the Marcos was | now recounta not complete until the end of Sep HEAVY PRESSURE tember. A rapid advance on the part IN GALICIA ‘ef the Rumanians would have utterly! 4+ the end of August and the be Upset it. The Rumanian army moved ginning of September, in East Ga- forward at a snail's pyee, partly be | jicia and the Carpathians, the Rus cause their attention had been di cians were putting heavy pressure on erted by Field Marshal von Mack- ws.: was then the army group of @ensen’s great successes in his inva in. Archduke Charles The result sion of Dobrudja, and partly because was the gradual withdrawal of Gen. they were waiting for the Russians Coun: von Bothmer's army from te cross the Carpathians. the Zlota Lipa behind the Narajovka, Their left wing remained between and a further loas of ground by the Orsova and Hermannstadt, where | Austrian troops in the Carpathians, there was a rather stronger concen-| particularly near the Tartar pase tration. The bulk of their army was and on the frontier of the Buko debouching from Kronstadt and the frontier mountains of Moldavia on an east and west line in! close touch with the Russian left wing. (Laden. dorff his previously explained that the Russians had captured the moun- tain passes without firing a shot.) It appears to have heen the inten tion of the Russians and Rumanians to descend into the Hungarian plain on a continuous line between the Carpathians and the Danube. But if this were to be accomplished very strong Russian forces would have to be brought thru the Carpathians. The Rumanians were to open the Carpathian passes for the Russians from the rear, by a vigorous irrup- tion into our concentration area. ‘They did the opposite. Unaccus- tomed to war on a large scale, they c made no use of the chances offered HELD UP them again and ‘again of forcing our| After further wavering. our front divisions up against the Dniester and against the Russians’ front waa stab- the Carpathians. They advanced ex-|ilized by the middie of September. traordinarily slowly and lost time.|In spite of a prodigious expenditure Every day was a day gained to us. | of men, further violent attacks were The Russians, too, showed no ca-|*!l without result. Nor were the ‘ity. They preferred to storm the| Russians able to boast of any notable Fldge ot the Carpathians instead of |Sains in the fighting in the Carpa making a thrust at our open flank|‘hians for the Tartar pass and the thru Moldavia. Rumania’s participa. | Crest southeast to Kirlibaba, thanks tion in the whole campaign followed |to the admirable bearing of the Ger no definite plan. No common scheme | ™4r troops. of operations had been settled. | Still the position about the middle (The Rumanians have charged |0f October was by no means secure, nor was the Russian power of of |fense in any way broken. ‘Their | massed attacks continued with the |#ame courage, and where this failed, the troops were urged on from be- hind by machine guns. The determination to obtain a vie- tory in Volhynia, East Galicia and in the Carpathians was still the driv. ing force at the Russian headquar- wina. As the security of this front was vital necessity for any operation there was nothing for but to send at least three divisions, |which were on their way from the hard-pressed western front, to Tran sylvania, to Boehm-Ermolli and the Archduke Charles’ army groups on the Dniester and in the Carpathians. I agreed to this with a heavy heart. I remember the bitter feelings which surged up within me against the Aus trian army at the thought of our difficult position in the west and the east, and the tasks our troops were called upon to perform on all fronts. | But there was no help for it. Our interests were mutual in the master. GREAT ATTACKS NAME ‘BAYER’ ON GENUINE ASPIRIN For Pain, Colds, Headache, Toothache, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Rheumatism After the first German troops from the west, which had been intended for Rumania, had been moved to Hast Galicia and the Carpathians, we had to transfer to Transylvania dl visions from the front of the com mander-in-chief in the east (in north Russia), We had to take the risk of weakening the front there. But the appearance of these troops in ‘Transylvania could not be counted on before the middle of September. The | You want relief—quickly and safe|poor railway communications in| ly! 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Aspirin 1#|trian general headquarters in Tesch- the trademark of Bayer Manufac-\en several Austrian divisions of Lin- troops, too, were General {ployed on both sides as Jarmy |bach, |ther south ja ture of Monoaceticacidester of|singen's group (near Kovel, where Balicylicacia, the Russians had their great suc abana abi alias eateee atatre eee ee THE SEATTLE STAR—-MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1919. the summer) which could © longer be employed againet Rus sian troopa They w thankfully recelved. ‘These divisions could hold part of the line, but certainly could hardly be used for attack General von Con innixted on Austrotungarian command in Tran Sylvania, and a new army group was formed in Hungary, under the Arch duke Charles, He retained General von Seeckt an his chief of staff. The archduke's former army group, with the exception of the troops in the Carpathians, was placed under Gen: eral von m-Ermolll, who retained his command of the Second Aus trian army The group so formed wan placed the amand of the com manderinchief of the east. North of the Carpathians we had got at last what we had been struggling for long--definite of mmand, which would meet the re frements of the situation, This necessary “FORCES EVERYWHERE WEAK" organization a had now become urgently The very exhausted German di visions of General Count von Both mor’a army, which the Russians bad been attacking 10 long needed to be r e ot Visions from the od front of the commanderinchief in the Bast on } which less heavy demands had been made, The work of carrying out the relief meant a very tedious business, as it could only be done train for train Our forces everywhere were so weak that, in view of the critical sit uation, whole divisions could not be taken at once from any one place, This was impossible in any « an the omanderinechief in the East had continually to release more and more troops Ramania. Archduke Charles’ n w army pe in the formed arthy group the tro comprised Carpathians Into the whieh Austrian were Seventh And the two armies were formed in | Transyivania The Austrian Art, northern army, under was to be de of the Maros back as Kiausenburg, and southern, the German Ninth under General von Falken. between Karlsburg and Muht with small detachments fur as far as Orsova. (Thu line of about 170 miles was formed, about 100 miles west of the Rumanian frontier at the deepest one, the First von far the hayn point.) When these had been fe September 19 brought back to join in the this most importand sector movement from Mublbach to Her General vou Fatkentfayn had an op | mannatadt, Austrian troops took portunity of giving pPactieal proof, over the defense of the passes, The of bis military ability as a leader of MuManians suceeded in recovering troops, in the service of his coun | them on the 26th, but by then they try had lost nome of their importance (Falkenhayn had just been deposed| In front of the First army the as chief of the German general staff| Rumanians had pushed their way to make way for Hindent into the Gorgeny untaing in the Ludendorff, Long an intis bend of the upper Maros, and had favorite’ of the kaiser, he hed t driven in the Austrian posts on the to upset Ludendortf’s plana for | ™ ove MarowVasarhely, ur campaigns jn the Kast and had hu-| ther south they had hed the miliated gravely the man who was | "tlghborhoed of Szekely-Udvarhely now to succeed him, His blunders | 44 east of Fogaras ¢ Hermann at Verdun had cost him hia high | dt group, two or three divisions place and he was given a chance in| "trong, had moved, Weak Aus the field to retrieve himself, It will| tan troops, stiffened by the Tra be noticed that he was not under) *¥!vanian cavalry brigade, which the direct authority of the men he | had been formed out of three « had angered) the forces which wer iT second half of Septemb concentrating Transylvania gradually increased In in numbers, tho they were still very weak in parinon with the enemy At the best, it was all a question of n few divisions. The Austrian First army had litte fighting value, Tue Ninth army was capable of an of fensive, and it wan the center of Ktavity of the whole operation As noon an thelr was completed, about September, both start off, the Aust passing north of 8 rection th from Th and thrust t N wing Tr the Rumanian army fo lachta. ne w T army bach region kan and Srurduk passes wentern tip mi past over « tn axsburg in a di and the bulk of Ninth army making for a line Hermannstadt to Kreustadt ne Rumanians were to be attacked cle towards the Kast cuting this movement, the army was to keep tx right clone to the north mide of the Alps, s0 a8 to cut off in Transylvania rm its communications with Wal ‘The operation automatic cured the right flank of the army ESTERN PASSES AKEN The three divisions of the Ninth | concentrating around Mubl-| could be enveloped from the | of Petroseny thra the Vul- fat the f Rumania) if the Ku ded to force thelr way Hermannatadt and northwards the Maros, This possibility aa to be dealt with first. It waa nportant due bast. In inth ansylvanian anians dec that we should throw back the Rumanians near Petroseny over the mountain ridge The firet German troops that leame up were successful in doing #0 | y alry regiments specially for this pu line be pose, were holding a thin tween Schassburg and Hermann | atadt FALKENHAYN'S GREAT BLOW The operations were to begin with | 4 shattering blow at the Hermann stadt group by General von Falken hayn. The exit from the Red Tower pass (behind Hermannstadt) was to re MR. OR MRS. 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General von Ars started off| strong that the Rumanians farther Ludendorft simultaneously. The opposing armies ; the m were thus converging on one an-| th Also began to retreat, and iam army by a bold stroke acron® || other | Austrian First army was the Transylvanian Alps and the At the outset the Fumantans were | gradu to asec to the frontier lower Danube, Hin German || abie to record a muccess in the cen-| mountains of Moldavia. troops did their part, but the || 10. whey were, however, beaten by . —sanle Austrians failed him again, 86 (|i. Ninth army south of. Fogaram and find more troops to carry || October 10, were thrown back thru out his scheme to get the 4 16 Geister Wald and Kronstadt to . anion food and oll he #0 || Campulung, Sinaia and Burau in the | 18 Constitutional diseane Years of badly needed, These things be tells In the next installment. mountains south of Kronstadt (across the Rumanian frontier) m| The pressure which the Ninth treatment of th and recommended ry where mplaint.— 4 drugginta eve | be cloned and both armies were to| strike eastward, The Hermannatadt blow succeeded e | By September 26 the Alpine corps, | in a long flanking march, had pushed | forward to the Ked Tower pass in| the rear of the enemy, whereupon e the main body of the Ninth army QO C e@ attacked on both sides of Hermann-| stadt, Our foree was weak, and the battle lasted until the 30th The Rumanians offered an obstl- © resistance and also attacked the | To those who proposed names for our shoe leather waterproofing process: n Alpine corps from the south, How-| ever, the Rumanian main forces | Owing to the great number of names j proposed and the comparatively short time in which to reach a decision on the winner—the one we will adopt as the permanent name of our most wonderful waterproofing process—we were un- able to reach a decision in time to an- nounce it today. moved too late and could not prevent the complete overthrow of a part of | their army at Hermannstadt. | (Ludendorff gives scant space to} | the remarkable achievement of the man who had humiliated him. 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