The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 3, 1919, Page 17

ER ee Nsihdiedenn:aieenektein oe Setlist Ludendortf has previously shown how the growth of the democrat! and revolutionary spirit in Germany, following the Russian revolution, had caused him great ASIN ER trou bie, He had been unable to get Chancellor Hethmann Hollweg to move drastically against the forces which we undermining the military autocracy Ry the end June, 191 the @emocratic xpirt wan aweeping over Germany. The reichatag Which held the purse strings was wholly out of control of the army chiefs and even of the kaiser, Luce wtf thought it “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Lundendorff Published by Byndica! © The Sea Australia =A Scandinavian ¢ The situation in Berlin became more acute. On July $ «91 chancellor, altho at thar time curately gauged the enemy's destruc tive intentions, agreed to the peace fesolution, which was to be put for ward by the majority parties, and &t the same time, definitely promised them to apply the reichstag fran chise law to the elections for the Prussian heyse of representatives: Both these measures must have strengthened the enemy's will to an incaleulable extent. On the after noon of the 10th, the imperial chan cellor fel: obliged to hand in his res ignation, which was, however, re fused on the 11th. At Kreuznach we thought for a time that Prince von Bulow would succeed him. rther confusion waa caused when suddenty the Austro Hungarian governc openty a with the imperial chancellor, von Bethmann, and against Prince von Bulow, The emperor had decided that Chancellor von Bethmann was to stay; and the crown prince, who had arrived in Bertin, had given way. After aN that had happened ! could no longer believe that the chancellor was the right man to per form the task demanded of him by this war, and lead the country out of the depths of ftx depression to victory. It had become evident to Me that, in order to conquer in the field, the general staff needed the co-operation of the stateamen at home, and the better acquainted I be. ame with the genera! situation after assuming duty, the more convinced Twas, This cooperation we bad not obtained; national thought and feet Ing at home had fallen off. The po- Htien] leaders lacked creative force they had no idea! which would take held of the people and thns develop ite own powers. GERMANS HAD TO GO ON STARVING In 1914 we were aglow with pa- triotiam, selfeacrifice and confidence) in Our own strength. We now need- ed fresh energy and impulse to make the German people forget the years of suffering and distreas, of bitter- ness and disappointment; replenish it with holy ardor, strength and con fidence, and enable it to imbue its fighting forces with fresh enthusi- asm. The imperial chancellor under estimated the value of these mora) forces. But the German people had to go on starving, ‘The chancellor had permitted the C,H. PAUL SAYS HE CAN NOW EAT JUST ANYTHING Sleeps Like a Log and Gets Up in Mornings Feeling Fine “T actually gained tweive im weight by taking only thes of Taniac.” said ©. M Paul, an employe of the Duthie shipyards and who resides at 6005 Fifth ave nue, Seattle, recently. Continuing. he said: pounds four bot “For the past three years I was very weak and badly run down and suffered with stomach ble #0 bad that everything I ate disagreed with me. I would often go to the table hungry, but was unable to eat a thing ax I would become dread fully nauseated with the first mouth ful I took. Why was so bad I could not even retain a glass of water at times. When I did man age to force down a little something it would sour and ferment, I would bloat terribly and have the worst sort of pains. I spells and severe headaches nearly all the time. 1 was so ladly const pated I had to be fore taking some sort of laxative and was s0 nervous I could get but little sleep, as I was very restless and would roll and tose all night Jong and would get up in the morning co: pletely tired out and barely able to stand on my feet “I had tried lots of medicines but of Oifferent kinds none of them did me any g00d, and I bad about given; up all hope of ever getting any bet ter. I had been reading a great deal about Tanta d decided 1 would try it, and almost as soon as I began taking it 1 noticed a change for the better in my condition, and I soon got in wuch fine shape I could eat anything I wanted with out suffering any bad after-effects. The pains and gas have completely left me and I have regained my strength eo 1 can do my work with the greatest ae, I n never Gimy any more and haven't had the head athe since 1 began taking Tanilac Rheumation ope: My nerves are all right now and 1| emperor now decided to accept the! (i) ating Iteelf in local) his instigation. This gave rise in} an adverse influence on the spirit of can sleep a jog and get up in the | resignation of Chancellor von Beth. | aches, ins, inflamed joints! werlin to the completely erroneous | the troops and on the defermination mornin eling fine, In fact I am| mann. land sti muscles. It cannot be! jdea that we had come to take part) of the people, while the enemy would enjoying the best of health | When we arrived in Berlin on the|cured by local or external applica-|in the deliberations on the peace| construe it an confession of weak. “1 have also given Tanlac to!13th the emperor had already|tions, It must he constitutional) resolution. As a matter of fact, the} ness, Ite full effect must therefore other mermbe of my family with! given his decision, 1 hoped that the | treatment Take ® course of the) deputies kept on coming back to it.|be injurious, We also pointed out splendid results, fepecially my lit-| man who was to assume office would |great blo “i-purifying and tonite We summed up our view of the! the evil consequences that might re- tle daughter, who was in a badly|be capable of concentrating the| medicine, Hood's Sarsapariija, which| situation more or less to the effect} sult from It In Bulgaria, where the rundown condition after she had a| whole energy of the German prople|corrects tho acid condition of the|that on land it was serious but) demands for peace went very far. cage of the flu ¢ began to pick | for a united effort. |blood on which rheumatism de-|secure, We simply must hold out,| ‘The text of my argument was this: up a® foor he started taking it ‘On our first visit to Berlin, July 7,|pends, and gives permanent relief.| since our enemies did not want]! We shall win if the army is backed and ie now well again | the field marshal and I had been| This medicine combines, with ex-| peace. The ammunition supply had] up by a united people. That in where “Tanlac sure put me on my feet| prepared to meet members of the|celient alteratives and tonics, what| improved, and there was sufficient|the people's representatives must and I am always glad to say a good|reichstag at the general staff offices|s generally conceded to be the|raw material. We made no refer-) help. word for it Taniac is sold in Seattie by Bartell Drug Stores under the personal ai rection of a special Taniac represen. tative—Advertiserment - FORCED BY would have dizzy | DOWNFALL ARMY MEN Was noceamary to take a firmer arip on affairs iver had refumd to dis miss Bethmann Now the crown prince was brought into His ce proving cient commanders army threatened to quit at any nent when Germany was ' 1 with @ grave military site ation, The kaiser had to give way and (he junkers and militar ists had their brief hour of tri umph in the installation ehancelior of Dr, Michaclia, a bureaucrat of the old school, who could be depended on to carry out the will of the army chiefs #0 far as he was able. Delgiam, Holland, Ru enemy's refusal of our peace offer! to pass by without letting the people know that, owing to the enemy's will no just, pence was possible; but that, | on the contrary, as he believed and| put it himself, a “helots’ peace” was to be our lot. He had failed to im-| bue them with fresh warlike resolu-! nd call upon them to fight for honor against a strong-willed | enemy ing for our destruction. No, he himself despaired of vic tory, and allowed the t of an un attainable peace by understanding to shake our nerve, while it put a trumps in the enemy's hands. England's defiance of the lav nationa in employing the blockade against our very flesh and blood was not met by flery protest; the heart of the people was not filled with stre maniy hatred; ite holy tre waa directed against the inhuman enemy Far ffom it. Discontent with the! conditions at home, which were d rectly caused by the blockade, was permitted to develop ita foree in-/ ternally, increase the effect of the blockade, and disintegrate our na tional life. / | WILSON’S BLOW TO THE KAISER The inhuman ill-treatment Prisoners, the very Gesh of our Was not allowed to arouse ings which could be vented ow tho not, of course, against the priv oners in our hands. Instead, every expression of anger was suppressed, | and the seeds of bitterness biel! sown When Wilson, on the qntry of the United States into the war. attempted to drive a wedge between the em-| peror, the princes,and the people, the chancellor did not arise to pro tect his imperial master. The reichs tag protested, but the tmperial chan- cellor held his peace. He never called upon the peopfe to defend the monarchical idea. whic? then as now, had its roots tirmly fixed in millions of German hearte—he never | prevented the ax being laid to ¢ tree of the imperial office and the! glory of the empire. j Moreover, the politica! lacked the strength to govern w firmness. At that time the mass of| the people were not yet greedy for cheap phrases. They wanted to be sure that no unfair privileges were! allowed as to living and conduct, and| that in these respecta everything wns justly and equitably regulated also wanted peace, but never a peace such as we are now getting. and could only have gotten even then. | ‘The government had mt the de termination to win and its faith German strength, which had so Mantly manifested itself in the past three years, and had only commenced to totter for want of leading. So the| army did not receive what it needed for vietory | leaders The ARMY CHIEFS OFFER TO QUIT | I no longer believed that a change would take place under that chan cellor, The only hope of being able to collaborate in complete accord with the imperial chancellor, which I had cherished when I went to ger erai headquarters, had been broken down. Seo l wrote out my resigna-| tien. | The constitutional problems did | not affect my military action. Per sonally 1 ed othe barrier which the imperial chancellor erected between the emporer and the people to be deplorable, ‘The emperor could become sufficiently acquainted with men. Several times, tho in| vain, I had asked Chancellor von} Bethmann to let him meet leading men; it could only serve to smooth matters over in a satisfactory man ner. For this reason I thought it| advantageous to include parliament | ary secretaries of state in the cabl-| net. I hoped, too, that thru them/ the country would be more likely to recelve what it needed for the war.| The field marshal joined me and |sabmitted his resignation at the) | same time, Our applications were| | dispatebed to Berlin, on the evening jof the 12th, after we had sent a | preliminary notification to General | j von Lyneker in the afternoon. St-/ multaneously we received an urgent} telegram from the war minister, who! considered it necessary, in view of the military situation, for the field) marsha! to make a further personal report in Berlin. The emperor wished to see us. con | In the meantime the crown prince | had had a conference on the morn- ing of the 12th with the party leaders of the reich#tag, the major ity of whom either declared them- selves in favor of the immediate ren- ignation of the chancellor, or else portance to his rqmaining in offic oO one took his side. | On the crown prince's report the | and give them information about the | most informal|ment of this disease military situation in an manner. I was anxious to reassure them. This conversation took plac fa the afternoon of the 1éth, fore the conference began, ary of state, Dr. Helfferich, and] firet half of 1917, the various failures! had not produced the decisive effect CROWN PRINCE Under Secretary of State Wahn-|near Arras, in the Wytschaete| that we had hoped for. In diseuse- OUSTS BETHMANN schaffe talked with me in a very ex-| salient and in Galicia, where we had) ing the possibility of transferring the cited of @ pew ABOUT RHEUMATISM asserted that they attached no im-|What Thousands Have Found Gives |Relief From This Painful Trouble. ed take Hood's Pills, Purely vege- Be‘ table we THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8, 1919. ° DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Now, WANY To Posy You 1y (F TOM SHOULD ASK You WHAT You | ad) Tippin nn listed To MAMMA Now ~ ly | JF DAOOY SHovLD ASK YOU Wy WHAT HE SHOULD GET MAMMA] f, | FoR CHRISTMAS: YOU SAY A PUR COAT ~ You BAY You Tink A FUR COAT Wold BE TWINK 1D LIKE FoR CHeisTMAS You Tew. Him A PUR CoAT! ayny pa ~ |\eer You Awe TLL TELL HER TH’ TRUTH - (ve BEEN ENTIRELY, Too MEEK ALL MY Lire ~ SHE'LL RESPECT ME MORE Too + i FoR You, PAL. HURRY UP AN’ TELEPHONE HELLO, ANNIE — SAY. 1M GONNA STAY COWNTOWN TIGHT WITH TH’ WHAT'LL tf Tet HER- WHATLL 1 TEW HER ? FRECKLE TUE 084A OF You GOING AROUND THE STREETS witu A CRUTCH BEGGING NOoNEY~ Now | TWAT TVE BURNED TUE CRUTcu T WANY You To Sit on TWAT CUAIR AND THK q Tom Off. SAY , Tom, WHAT ARE. You GOIMG “TO GET HELEN FoR. CHRISTMAS? ——' soe ee eS ei Pe ee -_ - nemo 5 on de - x. So —By BLOSSER | Si-ue nt CANT : SAN ~~ TELL FRECKLES T COME OUT AN’ PLAY awaiue! J KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES ALGYSIUS MDEAR AN’ MADAME WITH YOUR FACE, DUST LOOK AT THAT YOUR FIGURE ,yOUR ARISTOCRATIC Aim IT WOULD SE A SHANE To WEAR THAT HAT IN THE —=p, WINDOW" Ney (TF 3 / See LIKE THIS! TRS “JONES BOUGHT THE WE TRIM CUR HATS ARTISTICALLY NOT HALF 45 ARTISTICALLY AS YOu TRIM your CUSTOMERS !! SAME MODEL! DONT yOu THINK ~ Sire OTTO AUTO —-- — READY HAUKI- HERE comea \_ -THe MR. OTTO AUTO AND MY UULA HULA DANCE MA “CAUSE HIM TO . TURN TH LUBRICATING Our defens attitude thruout the] submarine war, altho up to date it the sec manner about the possibility} not yet attacked, the absence up to resolution, date of any decitive rewult from the ubmarine war, and our serious situ ation as regardn food and raw mate rials, ad caused great anxiety. These were the matters we were to dincuns: But every one was thinking about the peace resolution which the reich: was to introduce, with the co- tion of Count Crernin, even at | American army to France we put forward the naval opinion that it could only be considered feasible to w limited extent. VORWAERTZ REFUSES TO OBEY HIM To the peace resolution we were unable to give any support; we ex. plained that it did not moet with our views, since it was hound to exercise in @ constitutional ‘The meeting was quite informal ence to the impending operations in Herr von Helfferich requested the Galicia, both for the sake of secrecy and because their development could | deputies to take no steps with regard not possibly be foreseen. to the peace resolution for the pres- We had faith in the success of the'ent, He invited them to meet him effective agent in the treat- If # cathartic or laxative is need- AW, HULA MAID -YOUR EYES ) ther in the unfortunate idea of a An old Indian tradition asserts all bull moose of Eastern and Re peace by understanding that could] orn yaine Journey to the west ehore be had at any time. This was to! of Moosehead lake at the end of prove the curse of the peace resolu-| Year for the purpose of casting is tion. ¢ antlers, i; ASPIRIN—A Talk Take Aspirin only as cold by “Bayer” at the ministry of the interior the next day and the day after for a con- ference, at which the new imperial chancellor would be present. The gentlemen accepted However, early the next morning the peace resolution appeared in the Vorwnertz, At the suggestion of Un- der-Secretary of State Wahnschatft I had tried to prevent it, and had asked Deputy Sudekum to exert his influence on Vorwnerts in the same sense, ‘The publication could, how- ever, no longer be delayed, With that the majority parties in the reichstag had absolutely committed themselves, Further discussion could serve no useful purpose. From the tribune of the reichstag » the peace resolution went ont into ‘The same “Bayer” idumtifies the ache, See oe ee the world. As anticipated, it pro] tree, wortd-femeus Aspirin pre- | gia, Lambage, Ree duced on our enemice no political ef-| % scribed by physicimms for over|ritis and fer Pain. fect whatever; they took it as a con-| 4 eighteen years. The name “Bayer”| Always ey “Bayer” when fession of weakness, Bulgaria and Turkey began to doubt our victory. Nor was the effect in the country what the movers had hoped. Instead of drawing the proper con- clusion from tho refusal of the enemy, and strengthening the figh' ing spirit of the people, the govern. ment gave no thought to the enemy, but entangled itself further and fur ; I j < f gt } t F i da f - hi F E i i t