The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 20, 1919, Page 13

Heavy was the hand which German militarism laid on con quered peoples in 1917, Luden dorff, finding the German people would not respond as he planned to his demands that everything sbould be sacrificed for the army, visited the consequences on the helpless beings who had been brought within his power by conquest. Germany, as defeat came, turned in anger on Ludendorff, blaming his ruthlessness for the great hatred which stirred the surrounding peoples. Here he ndeavors to defend his course with the Belgians, Poles, and aptured soldiers, blaming the erman people in turn for fore- ing exploitation moasures be. cause of their failure to back him up, He also deals with military supplies he had to get in view of the vast armaments the ailies were drawing from all the world, “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff Pudlished by The Star th AyRdiont> righted, 1919, by Copyrihied in Great Nritain by dH Mar tent fm Spain by Messrs Seix and Marjei; in Italy by Fratelli "Preves Australia. Ail rights reserved fOr France, Beigium, Holland Beandinavian countrins The increaso in war industries) It was inevitable that, in our dif fearty in 19 “wo doubt brought | ficult position, we had recourse to enormous material reinforcement to] the occupied territories. The minis-| the army, but it also cost us a heavy | try of war had already tackled this Price in manpower. The more acute this situation became, and the great er tho need of increased man-power owing to the constantly {ncreasing strength of the enemy, the more did the supreme army command hold it to be its duty to the country, to the army, and to each individual soldier fighting at the front to insist on the men at home really working hard. No more men could be withdrawn @r withheld from the army. The fall in labor output, which could not be wholly explained by working and Ting conditions, and the strike ‘Against the country’s capacity for = fight. They were a sin against man at the front, and also, ac 4 to the supreme court of the cies an act of high treason ‘Against the country. Without political guidance, and infatuated by agitators, a section of the German working class has pre Cipitated their country, their fellows, ‘And themselves, into immeasurable “Misery; this will always remain as a jo indictment against them. ‘The government should have made endeavors to influence the were cach deadly and direct blows) Ue special arrangement with the MoClure question, and the employment of Bel sian workmen in Germany had actu ally begun. The supreme army com mand requested th |to comply with the wishes of the war cing clase by full explanation of |®* he ministry and of the industries gen. erally, and did this all the more earnestly because at that time the government had not even met the jarmy's demands for additional man power to the extent of passing the auxiliary service law The conscription of workmen for Germany was in the interest of the Belgians themselves, since unemploy- | ment had reached a high figure. This conscription, after discussion with the officials in Berlin, was extended. With these ex tended enlistments, which at first | were carried too far, there were| cases of hardship which it would have been better to avoid. They were in the main brought about by the Belgians themselves, who often denounced their fellow countrymen, for one reason or an other, as out of work, when this was not the case. The governor grneral put a stop to these abuses so soon discovered them. In the governor-general | | GEN. LUDENDORFF BRAZENLY DEFENDS DRAFT OF BELGIAN AND POLISH LABOR BY GERMANS authorities acting from p triotic duty, and not arbitrarily HIGH HAND! OL Also were obtained manpower, al tho not as much as one might have jhoped, from Poland and the other }then occupied territories, ax well as |from those which we agquired later jon, We |ureatest any appears Jelgn populatior | high handed ¢ |k us, acted ev anid ywhere with rat and avoid of oppressing for with the air of a queror; we had too of what was due from and such conduct was not in ac cordance with our views. Prisoners of war were of the ut most importance In all fields of war aotivity, We could not have kept jour economic structure together without the aid of the enormous numbers of Russians taken in the Correspondingly, of the prisoners taken from us involved, not merely a sensible lows to us, but an inc labor force available to the enemy Whenever we prisoners, it jhad to be decided whether they were on A sens | took to be employed in the occupied dis | tricta or to be sent on into Ger }many. In this respect, t the greatest consideration was shown to the authorities at home, even when the army was in tho greatest need of them Side by tain side with the effort to ob- further manpower from the }home country went the preparation of the program for munitions pro- | duction for the execution of which ® part of the man power in question jwas to serve, We needed above all more guns, ammunition, and ma chine-guns, and then larger supplies of many other things, KAVY LOSSES IN ARTILLERY The guns were needed, not only for new arming, but also for changes in arming, to replace older patterns by newer, and finally, too, | the place of the many worn guns. | in |Somme we suffered heavy losses in guns, not merely thru enemy shell- jing, but also by the heavy demands made on the maferial by the exces. The seriousness of our position, and | COUrse of time many Belgian work:| sive firing. have been achieved. ‘he return of troops to civil were cases of favoritism which Recessity had the same embitter- effects as the shirking at hom and often I begged the min- of war to put a stop to this, | 4 also not have hesitated to use|™en removed to Germany without force ‘if the end could not otherwise |“ny further complaints being heard. | We also conscripted Belgian work | The supreme army command knew | men for work in the occupied regions. | W@4 not so satinfactory, (nly too well that in questions of /In the Belgian refuges press and in jeelerated their life | the entente propaganda, a» was to be expected, there was a mad outery against this procedure. that similar cries were raised in Ger- many merely shows very childish judgment on the war. 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His majesty exerted himself in particular to se cure that the navy should give up guns from the vessels that were iced out of commission It was necessary to decide what umber of guns were to be produced jmonthly, in order to cover all Te | ceatost urgency | quirements, This was @ difficult) "'Ti,. time was not yet come for ts | jmatter, In the caso of the heavyli, undertake the construction of artillery we decided correctly, but|,/ 44 |tor the field artillery we extimated | | too highly. So soon as this was rec: |SOME REMARKABLE 1 ognized, the demand was reduced; | AIRCRAFT | but this of necessity caused @ ttle! Our aircraft industry took quite an| uncertainty. Factories cannot be re arranged in a day, | involves time, and a diminution in production. | It was thus necessary to exercise |the greatest caution in deciding on jany new construction, This was the Jreason why we were not so insistent on the introduction of a special weapon for the infantry as the events proved that we might have been SATISFIED WITH TANK GUN For defense against the tanks, field gun 06, which penetrated the tanks, was sufficient; the only thing neces sary was to turn it out in sufficient quantities. | At this time the increased produc tion of ammunition depended on the turn depended on the possibilities of | jobtaining or manufacturing the neo essary material Sulphur and nitrogen were par- ticularly important. It was a very | | difficult task to solve the problem of their supply | ling approximately the previous pro | duction. This spite heavy coal. was gradually reached, in of many obstacles, including explosions and shortage of When the explosives program jwas carried out, steel began to get scarce; in short, we had one trouble jafter another, before we succeeded in increasing the munitions production to the desired point A point deserving special attention was the supply of the various sorts jof ammunition to the troops. There | were too many varieties; it was noth ling less than a work of art for bat |tery commanders to estimate supplies, and for the staffs the right supplies up to the place at the right time. Our were not of satisfactory construction ‘The pre-war fuses were not simple enough, and it was essential to get the best design. We were considerably hindered by having to go sparingly with supplies A FEW OF THE NEW RECORDS WHEN I'M YOU'LL SOON FORGET. ...Peer Weeping Willow Lane Harry Burr-Frank ¢ 18609. 85 cents. 45 ‘cents. LIGHT—Waltz.C . Columb Medi A ARB EVENING BEL! 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The shell frag |ments thus seattered far and wide jover the surface of the ground, In stead of being bur We soon abandoned shrapnel training of| the troops being insufficient for such delicate work, Shells with sensitive brass, owing com the funes were everywhere preferred production, too, had to | pe with the increased output of ammunition, The from cylinders w Jens, thi discharge of gas| an less and! troops being opposed to it| } from first to last and the use of gas shelia ine i correspondingly, Our | | yellow crons shell was greatly feared by The fear of injury |from their own gas «till remained |very strong with our men and did! not abate until much later Privy }Ceuncilior Haber rendere valuable service in connection with the con:| duet of gas fighting Smoke shells, | factured. used the enemy too, were now manu | The infantry were supplied with a |light machine gun, which might well have been lighter and more for it required too many carr Was necessary to come to a decision. however, for the manufacture had to begin; it lasted months and months, Each company of infantry was to reoetve, at first four, _ later six of these light guns, BIGGER ANTLTANK | GUNS Our older heavy machine gun was good, and the men liked it. The ar-| 360 $100 Ulery was shortly afterwards equipped with this for protection |against raids and for antiaircraft | work. The supply of armour-piercing bul. | lets to the infantry for use aguinst alreraft and tanks was increased, and the ministry of war also under took the construction of further rapid-fire weapons for the infantry as well as of weapons of heavier caliber, to render effective aid jagainst tanks. Great attention had to be bestowed on the manufacture of motor lorries Our horses were getting worse and worse, and remounts came forward | slowly. We had to build lorries to replace horse transport, altho here. too, We Were met with difficulties as to supplies of material. We also needed lorries ing troops, The enemy their enormous industries, found tt easier and easier, not merely to move their reserves quickly in lorries, but alao to use them on an increasing scale for bringing troops ap from billets to the line and taking them back aguin, thus achieving an im | portant cconomy of physical and moral strength. We had to be con. tent if we could find lorries enough for troop movements in cases of the Farm. fine climate, and fice or write us for tion. for carry backed by exceptional position. The opposing armies were competing one with an jother to produce the fastest and| panted the other in turn, and our [Work on direct munitions production, industry was often ahead. Expecially|bad to be given back again for loco [in 1918 we had some remarkable de-|MOtve manufacture, by How ol signs, to which, together with their|™eans of communication Yeing on own courage, our flying men owed | Peed of thoro overhauling. Their mu ast wiskicten |nitionxs work had, of course, to t In the preceding passages I have| handed over to other factorios, and dealt merely with some of the more|#!ll works had to be used to th important supplies, in which great | Utmost increases were necessary; but, in| ‘The increased output demanded ex |fact, increases in all material were| tensions of the factories, and this jessential. Barbed wire, for example,|involved time. in other places was as urgently required as amall|works had to be abandoned or amal arm ammunition. To decide the vol-|gamated. ‘The whole constituted a} ume of the various material to be yoo re aching interference with our | manufactured one had to weight one |againat another, and consider thet relative importance and the probab! future requirements. The whole program constituted a piece of highly difficult brain work, | | based on prophecy, for which a great | part of the credit is due to Colonel} | ACTRESS TELLS SECRET | A Well Known Actress Tells How to Darken Gray Hair With a Simple Home | Bauer, of my staff. It wan only | Made Mixture definitely settled after repeated dis | 5 al th jeussion in Berlin, and received the) joie) Williama, the well known |name of the Hindenburg program, | american actre who was recently altho the program put forward, by | having the Imperial theatre in the supreme army command was not | 5; s,. 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The Hindenburg pi ures met with opposition not | | uation where these ideal conditions did really become a program, and=it_ only among the Belgians, | | were not present jachieved more than the other patts / whom he tried to force to work It is always the same. At first/of the great scheme, in which we for the defeat of their own na- | | nothing adequate is done; the critics | could not intervene. tion, but the German workmen | [object to this, but have no specific| ‘The factories got really running at had ideas of their own and re | |detailx to attack. If something is|last. The Hindenburg program was fused to put themselves under ctually done, if anything is created,| carried into execution, and became the drilling he wanted to en. | |even if something is constructed on/a real achievement. force. 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