The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1919, Page 14

- Hammering British and BY BUGENE Gen, Charles Sw lean Who fought with great distine tion thruout the war French, then with th and who is now a ma) J, YOUNG | ey Amer first with the A " gener nericans. ‘al in the service of Poland—was talking of Ladendorff recently “Everyone on the allied side knew a he Was a master of ta as wel was held in headquar strategy. sald. “He the highest respect in a ters, Every now and then we would) Ket some new instructions in tactics Seated to the German troops, and the “MY THOUGHTS Published by The Star thru special ar | Wytechacte salient on June 7, the © PRattlc of Flanders began on July 31 on lasting ef after an artillery prepar Several days. This formed the second great stratesic action of the entente An 1917; it was their bid for final vie Rory and for our submarine base in Pianiers. The fighting spread over "Marge portions of the western front ‘the Italian and Macedonian fronts. > &nd finally as far as Palestine ‘The fighting on the western front _ Became more severe and costly than the German army had yet exper- In spite of this, the western armies could not be reinforced from the East, for there, at last, heavy work was to be done. Russia and Rumasgia were to be defeated, in or Wer to enable us to force a decision Tm the West in 1918 by means of an! Bttack on France combined with the ase the latter Jesired result | | ‘he situation required that I my “Belt should undertake a great respon sibility, so great that it shook even Me. However, | bad to do it, for in 2918 the dangers might otherwise | Become too much for us, It was, of| @OUrse, obvious that general head} Muarters did not withhold from the/ > armies of the West a single man who | Was not urgently needed where 5 the further course of the German crown prince told me not to let the tension the West become too great. I well that general headquarters imposing this enormous strain on front, had in view the— situation in 1918. I saw the danger would be if the sub- war did not work after all. | But I am not one of those who give May in the face of dartgers; I was put “My doctor told me about it and TD couldn’t get another jar I wouldn't this one up for anything.”’ That is how many people regard Ointment. It is specially ded for eczema and! other skin troubles, but it is also ex- as a general hoysehold remedy ‘burns, scalds, chafings, cold sores, boils, insect bites, etc | Resino! Soap and Resin! 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K-49, J Mich, & ke o money. Bend Disastrous StrainonHun By Gen. Eric Von Lundendorff | of | at Verdun on August 20 and 21 } under +! cause us loss. Tactics of French Put best were always the product of Lu prff himeelf.” © remarks have a pointed bear ing ¢ the in which Luden rff tella how he changed the whole naive m of the army to meet the drive of the British chapter sys Ger in Flanders in the late summer and autumn of 1917, ‘That the British not » thelr goal and capture the Belgian cc and its U-boat bases in this tremendous campaign waa, above all, due to the radical tac tical measures Ludendorff took against the advico of the command ers at the front AND ACTIONS” | rangement with the McClure Newspaper Byadicate Copyriahted, 1919, by Harper and Rrothers. All “rt reeery od Gopyrizhted in Great ritalin by Hutchinson & Company and the | » Time Am Spain by Messrs. Seix and Barie Italy by Frateli! ‘Treves; in Canada and f Aurtraiia An ts reserved for France, Belgium, Holland, Russia and the Beandinavian countries | * Following on the prelude in the, in my position in order to overcome them and to employ every means to prevent a great misfortune overtak ing our country. TANKS PLAY PORTANT PART | From July 31 till well into Septem. ber was a period of tremendous anxiety. On July 31 the English, sisted by a few French divisions on their left, had attacked on a front of about 15 miles (east and north of Ypres). They had employed quantities of artillery ag had been} rare, even in the West. At many| points along the whole front the en: emy had penetrated with tanks cav-| alry divisions were in readiness to push thru. With the assistance of the counter- attack divisions (Kingreif’s division) | the Fourth army, whose chief of the staff was now Colonel von Doexberg, | succeeded in checking the hostile success and localizing its effect. But, besides a loss of from one and a quar. ter to two and « half miles of ground along the whole front, it caused us| very considerable losses in prisoners and stores, and a heavy expenditure of reserves. In August fighting broke out on many parts of the Western front. In Flanders the entente attacked again on the 10th, altho they must have suffered severely on July 13. August 10 was a success for us, on the 16th| We sustained another great blow. | The English pressed on beyond) Poeicapelle and even by an extreme! exertion of strength on our part could only be pushed back a short distance! During the following days fighting continued with diminished intensity. The 22nd was another day heavy f ing. August 25 con cluded the second phase of the Flan-| ders battle. It had cost us heavily. The main French effort took place The Fifth army was not surprised. As had been provided for weeks before band, certain areas, such as the Tw jou ridge, were abandoned in time The assault, which was not accom panied by tanks, again penetrated far into our positions. On the left bank, close to the Meuse, one division had failed, nor had we been fortunate on the right bank, and yet both here and in Flan. ders everything possible had prob- ably been done to avoid failure. The 2ist and 26th also brought success to the enemy and loss to us. (By their blows the French won back the larg: er part of the territory east of the Meuse which they had lost in the] Verdun battles.) FRENCH AGAIN ABLE TO STRIKE The French army was once more capable of the offensive. It had, quickly overcome its depression. Just at this time the statesmen in Paris! put forward peace conditions which | did not accord with the military sit uation. The costly Jers and | such | August battles tn Flan-} Verdun imposed « heavy | the Western In} all the concrete protection d more or lets powerless enormous weight of the arti point strain ¢ te of troops the emy’s they no longer ayed that firm ness which in commen with the jocal commanders, had hoped for. The enemy contrived to adapt him self to our method of employing counter-attack di ions. There were attacks with unlimited ob- 1 Nivelle had such as Ger made in the Aisne-Champagne bat tle. He was ready for our counter attacks, and prepared for them by exercising rest aint in the exploita tion of success. In other directions, | of course, this suited us very well. | I, myself, was being put to a ter. rible strain. The state of affairs in \the West appeared to prevent the jexecution of our plans elsewhere. |Our wastage had been so high as to cause grave misgiving, and had ex |eceded all expectations. The attack on the Dvina had to be postponed, |repeatedly, Indeed, it became a question whether we could continue to bear the responsibility of retain. | ing those divisions in the East. The crown prince was not alone in his anxiety; several chiefs of staff of | |very cool judgment shook their} | heads. But, in estimating the strength of our enemies, I always said to myself that in this war the only alternatives were victory or de stroy us made any intermediate so- tution impossible. In spite of « was convinced that the West front would stand even more battering, | tho fate might have even greater |trials in store for it. This was an-/ other case where hurnan wisdom fail | HEAVY BLOWS BY BRITISH After a period of profound quiet in the West, which led some to hope that the battle of Flanders was over another terrific assault was made on our lines on September 20, The third | bloody act of the battle had begun ‘The enemy's onslaught on the 20th | was successtul, which proved the su-| periority of the attack over fense }in the tanks; we found them incon. | nt, but put them out of action all the same. The power of the at-| damage to the hostile infantry at the actual time of the assault. Another English attack on the 21st) was repulsed but the 26th proved a day of heavy fighting, accompanied by every circumstance We might be able to but the stand the loss of ground, feat, that their determination to de-|)—— that could | THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1919. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS ‘Tom, | HEARD OF ANEW ResTALRANT! Come OW VLi TAKE You =) wD ‘ ! 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THIS A CLOTHIN’ STORE OR & RESTAURANT ING 85- WELL HowS Suit FOR ONLY /|You reduction of our fig was again all the more we were involve struggle in the West, pare for ati tacks on many NO JOY FORK MANY A DAY October came, a contin parts and heavier hting strength | sometimes at the front; sometimes on Once telephone. This time I ain 4 in a terrific to Flanders in order to talk nd had to pre | over the « ations with « ion of the at-| who had t art in the figh of the front. |Our defensive tactics had to be de veloped further, somehow or other. |We were all agreed on that, DRO D BIG COUNTER-BLOWS the went with it one of the hardest months of the war. The world at large—which began In my| The only thing was, it wan so in immediate neighborhood—saw only | finitely difficult to hit on the right Tarnopol, Czarnovitz, Riga and later |remedy. We could only proceed by Ovel Piave Udine, the T gli It did not see ings of our troops i head was in the Kast the de! heart on the Western front Its strength did not consist fad to bring head and heart toge » my |my deep sympathy with th eareful experiment. The ot the officers on the spot tended rather in the direction of our former faction; they amounted to a slight |but only a slight, reinforcement of our front lines, and the abandonment r.|of the counterattack by the counter to and the proposals su the West, My wil I had not known what joy mew attack divisions, local counter at for many # long day. The actions|tacks being substituted for this in the third battle of had| These local attacks were to be tack lay in the artillery, and in the| presented the same set-piece fact that ours did not do enough | teristics as those in the second and|to be brought close up and Pr 48\the fighting at Verdun they were assembling, and, above all,/of penetration was limited so as to secure immunity from our counter latter were attacks, broken artillery and the up by the After each attack 1 phenomena wi Kubi and Colonel massed fire of narac-|made by a division in the ond line The depth | over a wide front jattack began }line was to be held rather densely once more, in order to gain in power, the whole battlefield was to be given more depth than ever discussed the|General headquarters would thus, th General von! generally speaking, have to provide von Loszberg, a second division for every fighting before the ene », while the front then s| division in rear of pract more} WHAT KIND OF THIS CONSERVATIVE || & SUIT CAN GNE ME | division in the front line, an | heard of expenditure of force. | That the employment of a second ally every un lone in the front would 4 of the power a simple sum in arithmetic. But the second |sum was equally simple; that our lines on other fronts would have to |be thinned out even more than they had been hitherto, 1 would see what 1 could do. GAVE WAY TO | COMMANDERS I agreed to the tactical changes, al. tho misgivings — w expressed hong my stoff at (his departure from the “defensive battle.” 1 thought T ought to give way to the jexperience of officers at the front. Another tactical detail which was Jemphastved everywhere was the value of ground observation for ar |tilery. Only by that means could attacking hostile infantry be an: nihilated, particularly after penetrat ing our front, or fire be concentrated on decixive poings on the battlefield. 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