The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 29, 1919, Page 13

if 4 + z —_—— MESSINES ATTACK IN } 1917 ROCKED GERMANY ~ “It was the Russian revolution | wasted divisions in the west that alone that saved us from serious he was able to see this year's trouble.” | ppaign to a finish, Ladendorff thus again admits } Hv also reveals another chance the serious pass to which the Ger. which Morshal Haig did not ex man army had been brought in | ploit to the full. As at Arras the spring of 1917, Altho he had | April, now ot Messi smashed the great offensive of the British tore a the French on the Aisne, the al. the German tines, It wv lied guns had been taking a | before men and artillery ¢ heavy toll of his men and the brought up to close th British were getting ready to de- the British did liver more of the hammer blows pour thru and wid that had so stagge This is another circumstance Tt was onty by taking m whose explanation by Haig will the eastern front | cepla be awaited with interest -Y THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Lundendorff sind Published by The Star thru special arrangement with the McClure Ne Byndicate. Copyrighted, 1919, by Marper and Hrothera Ali rights Copyrighted in Great Britain by Hutchinson & Company and the London fa Spain by Messrs, Setx and Rar in Italy by Fratelit, Treves Canada « Avstralia. All rights reserved for France, Belgium, Molland, Russia and Beandinavian countries j In the east vast changes had taken )— _ - place. In March the thrown by the revo! favored by the « ment of pronoun: came into power tsar was over B cnggh Ste Spree How the great Russian a nte. A govern es is told by socialist leanings | | Gendorff Monday, Me recalls the great tragedy of Keren y iloff's attempt n the spirit of the | tfeeps and shows how the of. fensive they started at first severely tried the German. Austrian lines. This brave campaign, however, only served to hasten the end of Russia as a factor in the gen- eral war. the revolution are not clear, T y have imagined they were « by a national movement | which they could not ignore, and] with which they consequently threw in@their lot, or they may have} thought that the tsar had become} inclined for peace, owing to fear of | 4n internal collapse, and were there: | fore in favor of getting rid of him Possibly there were other reasons At all events, it is certain that the | which no general could dare to count! entente expected the revolution to with certainty. Now at last it was bring them some advantage in the| no longer a hope, but a reality with war. They wished at least to save which | could deal as a soldier, Our anything that could be saved, and | general position had considerably tm consequently did not hesitate to act.) proved, and I could leok forward ‘The tsar, who had begun the war in| with confidence to the battles in the order to please the entente, had to) West. be removed. This line of conduct re} The results of the submarine cam Yealed an inexhaustible will power, |paign were distinctly favorable, and which would stick at nothing in or | far exceeded the expectations of the der to win the war. The same thing (navy. The loss of tonnage and ma would have happened if Sturner (the | terial sunk was bound to tell. ‘The Russian premier who betrayed Ru-| Economist of September 7, 1918, calls mania) had really favored peace in|the spring of 1917 the most critical jand perilous period thru which Eng Outbreak of the revolution | land had passed © tivow a strong side light on condi-}of war. The ente found itself lions in Russia. The army and na-|forced to employ for naval warfa tion were rotten to the core, or ii} men and material hitherto destined would never have taken place. In | for the conflict on land, and this con Russia, as with us, the army was! tinued in an ever-increasing degree. part of the nation; there, too, nation - ? and army were one. How often had | Qpyiereg eee Bnet hoped for a revolution in order ™ nd te lighten our military burden! But After their may desire had been merely a castle 1 May, 1917, and the collapse of in the alr. Now it had come as a ussia in th nterval, England and surprise. I felt as tho » weight had |!'Tance saw themselves faced with a been removed from my chest. At|D®W situation. They decided on a that time I never contemplated the | “cond great offensive, with the ob- possibility that it might later on un. | J*ct of winning the war before the dermine our strength also. end of 1917. At the same time they FURTHER ATTACKS wished to secure guarantees that final victor od at any! gee ele tain Bia wiether sata be assured at any! Tt was impossible to tell to what ex- tent efforts in the East would be re-| ., The chief weight of the blow waa/ Jaxed, and for the moment attacks | “rected in the vicinity of Ypres, with | had to be expected. Nevertheless, the |® View to capturing the German sub-| revolution was a serious blow for the | ™! gre Lee yp wren ‘The trans-| entente, as it inevitably entailed a | Peet Of the new American troops te diminution of Russia's fighting ca-|pvence im 1918 had to be safeguarded pacity And brought considerable re-/°Y 9 War against our U-boats, | Nef to us in the extremely difficult| In spite of the seriousness of our, position in which we were placed.| position on the Western front, the! Fer general headquarters this con-|absence of any Russian attacks in sisted first of all in the saving of |the spring of 1917 prevented a gen- troops and munitions in the East;/eral crisis in our situation such as and the exchange of worn-out divis |we had experienced in September fons from the West fot fresh troops | 19! I had never been one to in from the East was undertaken on a/dulge in fruitless speculation, but I large scale. |could not help considering what our Orders were given for propaganda Position must inevitably have been to be set on foot at once to encour-|%94 the Russians attacked in April age a strong movement for peace in|®"4 May and met with even minor | the Russian army. successes, We should then, as in the ‘The outbreak of the’ Russian revo. autumn of 1916, have had a desperate st fe € pply o jons lution was a factor in the war upon | “USS! ae ay aR |had diminished to an alarming ex- wa * ce the outbreak great failure in April ose, i | If the Russian successes of July [had oceurred in April and May I do + | not see, as I look back, how general } headquarters could have mastered i the situation. During these two months of 1917, in spite of our Aisne TORPEDOED! Don’t biast your Liver and {| ian revolution, alone that saved us Bowels, but take {| from serious trouble. “ ” |ON THE FAR. Cascarets. } | FLUNG FRONTS beeee | The Russian offensive took 1 You men and women who can't get | later on, in July, two months after feeling right—who have headaches, | the Anglo-French attack, and even coated tongue, bad taste and foul|then it was not a united blow, as in breath, dizzine: an't sleep, are bil | the autumn of 1916. It was a divided fous, nervous and upset, bothered | push, and operating, as we did, from with a sick, gassy, disordered stom-| interior lines, we were able to repel &che and colds jand overcome our isolated opponents Are you keeping your liver and]one by one. bowels clean with Cascarets, or shocking your insides every few days | On the Italian front, too, there was . violent fighting in May. The tenth with Calome!, Oil and violent! pattie of the Isonzo once more closed Pills : | without victory for the Cascarets work while you sleep;| 1, Macedonia an enemy they cleanse the stomach, remove | ,’ > pile hetinns the sour, undigested, fermenting |iuncarian lines, The submarine food and foul gases; take the excess | inpaign again achieved good re Bile from the liver and carry out of | suits in April and May and reliev the system all the constipated waste eur Weatert, tront Matter and poison in the bowels.|°"E.. the moment the French army Cascarets never gripe, sicken or ’ neh army active order to rect Cause inconvenience and Cascarets ny ranting dS er ter its recent defeat. Later on it confined itself only to local en: gagements, altho t were of con siderable intensity. The main forces of the British and Belgian armies, supported by French troops, were held in readiness for the attack in Italian army ffensive on before the a perate Can Use Without Discomfort | Flanders. Fresh offensives ¥ or Log of ‘Time. also to be opened on the Isonzo, in We have a New Method that con-| Macedonia and Palestine ‘ols asthma, and we want you to| No matter| IN DARK AS TO jong stand- nt, whether ALLIED PLANS | | r or chro In the summer of 1917 I naturally| nd for a free | was not able to form such a clear 1d ial ur method. No matter in|oe the 4 What climate you live, no matter | the intentions and measures t What your a oF oO if you |enemy were then maturing as I did| pulsed fre troubled with asthma, meth-|in July and August | Od should relieve you promptly. We especially want to send it to} 4° thor apparently hopeless cases | Was perceptible in the second half of jentail for the wh Ii forms of inhalers, dou May, and the French army continued | armie: thai 2 sy tallied "We want |to be comparatively inactive. Mean t w everyone at our expense | While I had to reckon on that this new method is designed to|of their offensive, which was possi. | Raroxysis st once. any sector of the line. The British This free offer is too important to|army continued fighting on the old money, Simply mail coupon below. |0M4 half of M Do it today ‘ Intensity shown in the Somme bat Buffalo, | noticeable in the » Ypres. The straightening of this sal-| jent really began in the great Flan ders battle in June. As long yne A Tom wit You Go OuT 4u0 cau Daw¥ ? Tew wm ve mw Now § ER Nou GeT ua Bund A CoaLr pee w THe FuRNACcE - OH, BOY- SOME LIMOUSINE. UL BET SOME WEALTHY MAW OWNS “HAT Pperorr ne OU PRECVLES . WANNA SEE CUADLIE CuaADLN) ay TW oDOV douse 2 GEE . You WANNA ALOYSIUS P ISGINIS THIS RADIATOR IS TH LANDLORD ‘TOLD ME HE HAS ORDERED TH’ JANITOR To PUT ON A SHOVELFUL OF COAL EVERY *'north of that town was outflanked|both sides had ceased to use all had been quiet sound of underground work on the part of the enemy could be heard at our Hatening posts. The tacpical position of the Ger- man troops in the Wytschaete sal 1e mines must There were some thoughts of evacu have been laid long before. The moral effect of the explosions of opinion that it could be held. p always to the ad-| points our troops fell b akening in the French attacks | to lthe Wytsch The group of und the recovery of the position reopening | should be held. Sehn line (on the further edge of the (GRE, REAK HIS LINES taken up with our consent We should have succeeded in re but for the éx mines used by taining the positi y, not, indeed, with the ceptionally powerfu the British, which paved the way for tles, but still pursuing its tactics of their attack, consisting, as usual, of couron attrition, | fierce NTI HMA CO., Room At the beginning of June increased! closely massed infantry advance. ‘The 583-X, Niagara and Hudson sts,, || *etivity on the part of the enemy was result ¥ ighborhood of our operati Send free trial of your method || salient at Wytschaete, south of thru and owing to my attack the June 7 cost us d the success of th | price we paid was very heavy was many days before the army did not press its advai these successful | apparently it only intended to im ns was that the enemy broke | prove its position for the launching of the great Flanders offensive, Messines (dominating Ypres fro the site of active remained in German hands every|mine warfare in the early days of the British attack at Ypres and to the! war. # it|south) h thereupon resumed operations For a long time past, however,’ on the old Arras battlefield and also THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 1919. WHY DAWWY How DID You GET 30 DETY ? YouR Face iS a SiGHT! Nov Come MGuT WwW THR House “Te | CLEAN HERE WHEN TH’ WHISTLE BLOWS - You'D BETTER CLEAN TH’ OTHER CAR THIS MORNIN’ Too G+ T WAVENT ANY NONEN = Vou Goin! ALEK ? I'LL GO DOWN AN’ BAWL OUT TH JANITOR! THE LANDLORD TOLD Hitt TO PUT TH’ COAL ON! between La object of the enemy was to wear us down and distract our attention from Ypres. he command of the Sixth army Falkenhausen h the late General von Bissing as gov ernor general of Belgium. particularly retain The General Otto von Below, who relin guished the command of the group of armies in Ma von Scholz, the Eastern front. end of the Aisne-Champagne battle had left the Seventh and First armies on a very unfavorable line, particularly at many points along the Chemin des Dames, |ridge would have meant ¢ success and would have had a de pressing effect on had held it so bi of armies under The prines to. secure VEAu - SURE! You DON'T BED ANY MONEN~ WE'LL GET Ww FREE tof ” A banaet Damn? TO THe Fam’ -) want Nov PATER TO SFE How's IT Yer WAUON’ “THIS MORNIN’? WHATS Trl’ MATTER. WITH YOUR CAR. 7 GET IN FRED! TD uve T KNOW Wow You's GON A Generous Landlord. SAY! DIONT TH BOSS TELL You TO PUTON A SHOVELFUL OF COAL EVERY, 15 MINUTES ? his new position, jonia to General latterly in command on To give up the German crown and the Seventh army wished improved positions by series of minor engagements, 80 as to establish a line suitable for a per. manent position, cided with the views of general head quarters. As the result of various actions, | prepared with the greatest care by the commands which took part in them, and skillfully carried out by the forces eng a more favorable line was gradually formed here and fresh life was put into the troops. VERDUN ATTACK AGAIN COSTLY General von Gallwitz, too, the commanderin-chief of the Fifth army, wished for the same reason to undertake a te improvement of position on the west bank of the Meuse, which the group of armies there considered particularly import- ant, The group of armies under the n crown prince supported the al and general headquarters its consent. ‘The attacks on June 18 and 19 succeeded, But here again we realized, as we had done before, that to attack is easier than to hold what has been won In all these engagements, under taken by the Seventh and Fifth armies in order to improve their po sition, the possibility of enemy coun- ter-attacks was reckoned with, and their repulse provided for, in the es- —By ALTMAN Daw Yore A Discrace| |On,Tom! come vo WERE IGT away } WANT You To wuat Do You want Me TO —By LEO Aw- MY CHAUFFEUR WENT ON STRIKE I'LL GO Down T’ TH’ OFFICE AN’ TELL TA’ B0SS T’ GET ANOTHER. OFFICE MANAGER. TUA'S ALL UGuT- Nou JUST COME YO CAN SEE AH'S PUTTIN IT ON JES’ LiKE DE Boss YES SAH BOSS, An’ ITS JES TIME Fo’ MMM~ LET'S SEE NOW: WHERE TO FIRGT = HAA- GUESS TLL FLAP TO WAMIALL FOR “HC HARVEST OF HULA HULA ‘DRESSES AND TUNE UP HY MOTOR VCTH WW! UKSLELES —- timates for men and munitions fur. nished to general headquarters. wished to avoid anything in the way of a wild gamble, everything was prepared against these enemy counter-attacks, they succeeded far too often. Seventh army Before Verdun the French de- prived us of the greater part of our I was glad when the battles there came to an end, and sorry that 1 had ever allowed the attacks to be half of June and other engagements on the British front, the activity in the West from the middle of May till June was such that. some of the troops at least were able to recuper- ate and we were in a position to cre- ate reserves, The Western army was prepared when East reached a sudden crisis, EAT ANYTHING YO WISH WITHOUT FEAR OF DISTRESS Relief Sure In—Two Minutes If the things you eat distress you, into your nearest drug store and ask for a box of JO-TO, then you can eat what you wish without fear, for the quickness of its action will convince you that JO-TO ts the best remedy you have ever tried for indigestion. sourness of stomach (heartburn), belching, swell so frequently complained of after meals in—Two events in the I was as little in favor, as when commanderin-chief orm the of continuous battering tac ties, in which the gain does not out- weigh the loss. Near the Fourth army the British had been established ever since 1914 in a narrow bri¢ coast on the right bank of the Yser. This place had always been the na corps’ weak spot. The Fourth army, vhich was supported by this corps, attack took place was successful prevented all The Yser effectively enemy counterattacks, In spite of the severe fighting for| Big Stores, or Swift & Co, Four Big the Wytschaete salient in the first Stores, of the Bartell Five