The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 22, 1919, Page 3

=! a SESERE cea SEheyd Ei a Geis e& RAV A came to the outside | thru the neutral countries | jn the spring and summer of yt? of dire want in Germany— ot gk of food and fuel, of great | mi “ersatz,” of substitute, was the great word in Germany. Substi- tutes for food of all sorts, sub- stitutes for clothing, substi for drugs—thousands of them— ring by the people and were put on the market and demands that a way should be taken by the docile people. found to poe an end to the Nitrates even were drawn from misery. the ai German propaganda agencies What grim Jokes were these pusied themselves to contradict “ersat and the praises sung these reports, Shortage of food to them by the German propa- and other supplies was admitted, ganda is plainly set forth by put the boast was proudly sei forth that German science hi found a way to meet all necessi- ties, These were the days when | “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff The Star thru special arrangement with the McClure Ni Ludendorff. No blacker picture of the German privation, even starvation, of that year has been drawn. portished by Ne Copyrighted, 191%, by Harper rothe preiented tn « Britain by Hutehingon & Company and the London Tim: Gorrie by Messra. Seix and Mariel; in Italy by Pratelit Prev %. a Ad rahts Feserved for France, Belgium, Holland, Russia and the feodinavian countries The question of food supplies (in/diMeulties suffered by the middle Ge spring and summer of 1917) was| classes, And yet this class, oppressed @ equal importance to the people | in every direction and suffering si ged the army, to man and beas lently, did its duty to the very end. The work of the army in the field) 74.4 workers were better looked : b deg on thei pede’ in a high how: wee the taro after, They adjusted their demands |supply the more scantily supplied enn, matters in morale. I thus| 0" increased wages, which they sup-|districts inhabited by Germans =x give to the question of food | ed by ste to the aiielt trad-| dhe clumsy Austrian system of ee tll attentic band ary the Working chemeca wiao sue. [gorermment created additional dif | rane sorate at home | Ott Of the working classes also suf | feulties, so that, in spite of orders The reduction in moral fered hardship, but, in contrast to! o¢- 4p, i ty, thee wally due to the food situa-)ine middie classes, they really had|° cee aaiee tk bt was 00) 7 never any real hope of procuring tien. The human body did not re-| enough to live on. “qeive, especially in albumen and fats,! “icit trading became of the great necessary nour’ rar gehen! bin est importance tn domestic politics paintenance of physica om mental ie grew with the length of the war; mee. In wide circles a certain ae, | the more people at home lost interest gy of bodily and mental power of lin the war, the more their natural fuaistance was to be seen. ere = |instinets, having now no countervail ce ard ye he gs Riccnie ro ing force, pressed them more strong. ¥ abled end “ge } t. Mlicit trading hoa eourage the pacifist leanings of |1Y forward. TiMclt trading on tee pany Germans. | ding: boar Pag ag ond taeee ‘and the In the summer of 1917 my first declining morale interacted on one glimpse into this situation startled ce eonsiderably. This attitude was | another with increasingly disastrous tremendous element of weakness. “ fivas all a question of human na. | MAXIMUM PRICE ture. It could be = eliminated | PLAN FAILS - fe som> extent by strong patriotic) Our system of control with maxi feeling, but in the long could} mum prices had failed. Production mily be finally defeated by an im. did not increase, and yield fell off, geo in nourishment. More thru shortage of labor, lack of ma- was needed. We had to find|nure and bad weather. The many mw sources of supply, to conserve | suggestions which the supreme army ur stocks, and, above all, to in-| command made to the chancellor for (rease our own production, This last| combating illicit trading, extrava- was the most important. ‘ | want middiemen'’s profits and high STRAW AND TIMBER wages, which had to be defeated if FoR FODDER we were to maintain our capacity The occupation of Wallachia (Ru: | *, Lage Ar ore yaya < omg ee mania) was a definite step. Other! , The whole thing was s feasures were needed to assist fur: | fear lest the maximum prices for ag- | ricultural produce should be fixed yds thet = oe — | too high actually contributed greatly perhaps even for vote food, was | °°? increasing the general cost of liv eonstant! ng and widening the gulf between Feme Gaon A = the} town and country. The discontented Bihering of leaf-hay for fodder. Just; “ements knew how to make is We had to get every ounce of | Ot of alll these occurrences, Rot frength out of the people to carry | enemies’ starvation blockade tm the war, #0 we had, with the as. | Umphed, and caused us both physical @eance of our scientists, to win| #0d spiritual distress. frersthing from nature that could be| _ MY own view of the system of con- verked up into food for man and] tret ualtos a tamer pot al beast. moved, rading ) The question of prices was a mat.| Mitted, the better; in respect to cer- for the home authorities. Tt was| tif articles of fopd, even, I thought plicated by political considera |'t Should be removed at once. On iGecs. In the then conditions of ao.| ‘he other hand, my view was that a dilist agitation against the country | Vans cates ie eee et oc ne Serarien ee ene | auxiliaries of the government, was si | urgently required. These were, how- Jims the price of bread against the| \v" f igoe gone —Ticinera ppatre Bernas Poor, and of the already serious diM- | 10), Wiles. - tiities of living, the government | 4 eked the courage to take the long| ENGLAND'S WAY /Yew and regulate the maximum A BETTER ONE | Wrices adequately. | It was above all important that | Agriculture, suffering from very|the prices for various products _ Beh costs of production, and faced | should be raised, and should be fixed © the need to prepare for carrying | early enough to enable farmers to )M& after the war, was often quite| make their arrangements according- “Reapable of working profitably on|ly. The commissariat chief, who the basis of the then maximum shared my views, put them energet- Hices. Supplies were not sufficient ically before the war food office. It for the population, and the low prices | would seem that England, with her @4 not even secure that they were | system of minimum prices, chose the Mi brought to market. | better course, for her The nonexpert bodies, whose duty | certainly increased enormously. Rwas to secure that all stocks were! The farmers worked well. The tlivered, were incapable of doing so. | large owners in particular achieved They often irritated and estranged | wonders. The country has again been the country people. The individual! able to. see that, juet as the army @4 not even receive his official ra-| is the basis of order, so our agri- tin, which of itself was fixed too low | culture is the foundation of our eco- to maintain his full strength. As a| nomic, indeed, even of our political fault, both town and country set| life. If we had only borne this in about to help themselves. llicit| mind before the war our way would trading and hoarding tncreased, and| have been easier. It is now the fore- there was soon no sure ground to be| most duty of the state to make good fen in the problem | what was’ then neglected, and that MASSES OF of our ‘sgrioulture to promote inten- PROP! sive cultivation. ae STARVED I had many confidential discus- Producers kept sufficient supplies | tions with both the presidents of our for themselves, and more besides.| war food office, von Batock! and von 404 even if their whole consumption Waldow. Different as they were #4 of little importance when spread) trom one another, they were both Sver the whole population, their COn-| fii of the sense of their grave re- ae wens to embitter me gt sponsibility, of tron loyalty and deep road mass of the people, (| patriotism, feclally the middle classes, including — Pye army often helped the people. ad to and officers with fixed sal-| with the heavy duties they the troops were no bet ties, suffered real hardship. A few, | undertake ™ doubt, fell to temptation in the) ter off than the men at home. I ficult times and helped themselves, | acted thruout in the deep conviction the majority were literally | that the army and the people in all Marved. Thiv came as an additional | respects were the same. The supreme burden over and above all the other | army command, indeed, always acted ——— |on that principle. ARMY FOOD CUT TO AID PEOPLE In Berlin people seemed at times |to have the idea that the army and the people were two different bodies, | with different stomachs. This view | was a sorry demonstration how little the war was understood then. Very reluctantly the supreme army com- |mand had often to reduce tempo- | rarily the rations of meat, bread, po- | tatoes and fats, and also of oats and hay. This was done to support the people at home, and keep them tiv for the war. The war food office, however, thoroly understood the army's needs, and esfecially the fact that the men in the front line were deserving of the greatest considern. tion The men often did not have enough, even when they received Sunday, Monday and Tuesday NORMA TALMADGE =—IN= “CHILDREN IN THE HOUSE” |the full allotted ration, The food |was, besides, too monotonous, I . —WITH— heard many complaints from the |commanderin-chief on this point, Jewel Carmen |but I could not remedy any mat ters in detail. At home the troops in depots did not get enough to eat, and many difficulties arose. Luxuries Became rarer and rarer The horses in particular suffered, their rations being wholly cient. Their corn ration was too small, and great difficulties were ex: perienced with their other fodder. RUMANIA SAVED THEM The occupied territories helped us with foodstuffs. ‘The lines of com munication inspectorate dew on Eugene Pallette Mother-love guides to safety the wife who seeks shelter from a de banched husband, But faith ix kind—awarding happiness to the woman who is true to her duty. A GOOD COMEDY AND FORD WEEKLY capital | insuffi-| JUNS PLANNED TO FEED PEOPLE | -LUDENDORFF Monday x - » them in particular for meat, and leaw to it that their agriculture was carried on on the best lines, Wher lever troops were stationed for any llength of time they themselve | worked hard both tn cultivation and harvesting; but frequent movements |prevented us from gaining much benefit from this, In the year 1917 only Rumania enabled Germany, | Austria Hungary and Constantinople to keep their heads above water. The food situation in Austria-! Hungary was always exceedingly strained. Hungary had enough; it did, it is true, undertake the supply of a very considerable part of the army, but it gave no assistance to |starving Austria. In the latter coun |try the Czech cultivators refused to the necessary supplies or of dbvtrib- uting them properly, I shall never forget the way in which a high Austrian official begged me to help |him against Hungary in the ques | ton of supplies, The army starved) }im part, as did German Austria, and | \especially Vienna. |TWO ALLIES WERE “ROTTEN” Altho agriculture was very prim! tive, the situation in Bulgaria was better, but the system of govern ment was rotten. The army often ran short of supplies, It was, new ertheless, possible to hope that Bul- garin would be selfproviding in the jlong run The Turkish supply system was absolutely rotten, its agriculture was the most primitive possible, even iron plows being unknown |Our minister of agriculture, Baron von Schorlemer, had made efforts to improve Turkish agriculture, but the government displayed not the least understanding or perception in the matter. They asked for motor |plows to bring more land under jeultivation, but never dreamed of taking proper steps to increase pro- jduction. Turkey, especially Con | stantinople, was thus need of |help in supplies. in | The great importance of Rumania. jor more correctly of Wallachia, has already been noticed in various con nections, We had now the task of collecting from this territory what we needed, and of transporting it to the consumers, Rumania and the Dobrudja were put under a regular government. | Having regard to the ptedominant part which we Germans had taken in the conquest of the country, 1) Sirove to have this government placed in German hands. In view |of the peculiarities of our allies and their business methods, this certain-| ly offered the best guarantee for the permanent proper consideration! of our rights and interests, and our) allies agreed to the course proposed. QUARREL WITH BULGARS The Bulgars soon caused consid erable difficulties to the German authorities in the Dobrudja, who were under the command of Gen eral Kurt von Unger. The matter |was even brought before the su Preme army command, I stood firm jagainst the Bulgarian desire to con-| jtrol the line of communication, and} was greatly strengthened by the at-| titude of the German officials, who| fought with spirit against the selfish actions of our a General von Unger and his Ger man subordinates saw to it that the rich oil stocks at Constanza and the other materia were transported| out of the district, and thus were p to the use that really in the |terests of ourselves and our allies.| The land was cultivated as well as| was possible in the difficult cireum. stances, if the Bulgar army did not receive the supplies from the brudja that it could have yield in | , the element, which was naturally far from convenient. We had, however, to put up with this on the simple ground that Germany had‘ not the strength to carry out everything her. self. In many cases the Austro Hungarian officials made our life a| burden; they feared an increase of German influence in Rumania, and sought to obtain for themselves ad vantages of every description, Bul-| garia, too, made the administration | more difficult, acting at first in a| most arbitrary manner, Turkey was loyal. There were highly satisfactory sup: plies of agricultural produce of all sorts, in particular of wheat and maize, but also of peas, beans, plums, exes and wine, The auturnn sowing was done to encourage production The sowing of winter w t was | undertaken at once. erything was The |done to encourage production |sowing of winter wheat was most important, as we had to reckon on the Rumanian harvest for the critical period before the Hungarian harvest in July and our own in August, V etables were also of importance to| us, and their production was made} |48 profitable as possible. ‘The stocks | jot cattle had been greatly reduced |by the war, and those that remained were now used for draught The | export of meat was thus confined to very moderate limits. | BRITISH DESTROYED | OLL WELLS The stocks of oil that we found in Rumania were not large. The bering! plants had been absolutely destroyed, Do-| }, aud the wells very cleverly blocked} \ THE SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, NOV. 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The English Colonel Thomsen 1 fulfilled admirably his duty of making it difficult for us to exploit | fault lay solely with the attitudeline ofi-tields, His work was not, it} adopted by them and their govern:lis true, of decisive assistance to the ment. entente, but it did ma y reduce We had reserved the right to buy|the supplies of our army a als in the army zone of the|We must attribute our Igar army. The Bulgars felt|part to him es injured by this, and put} ‘To many people in Vienna, suffer many difficulties in our way ing etvere favation “ane et wat AUSTRIANS Gisposed toward us, It seemed that ALSO JEALOUS we were not proceeding quickly w enough th the athering of the The administration set bad in Wal bs in ak po pacsntorbor I of oil lachia contained @ strong Austrian). xing, and in February, 1917, com-| plaints came from Vienna and were | repeated to me from Berlin. I was| uncertain for a moment whether the! |work was really being well done. 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