The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1919, Page 14

BOLSHIES A spectacular operation in the of 1917 was the attack the German fleet and army on ‘the two big islands tying at the of the Gulf of Riga, As shows today, it was a , designed to bring the Bol i to terms by a threat of advance on Potrograd. Because of the critical situation the west, ax he has previously q forth frankly, he was able to 4 only a few troops for this bat he made the most T. The outside world was led believe that considerable were ready to take up the “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Lundendorff ened by The Star thru special arrangement with the MeClure Newspape Copyriehted, 1919, by Fa ted in Great Brit Al rights reserved for Hnavian countries the middle of October, 1917, we our advanced troops east Riga to their permanent positions these extended fronts active tions between the two of trenches gradually set in eontinued our endeavors to in the desire for peace in the ae army. Om October 11, the Meet left Libau Sthe attack on the islands lying ff the Gulf of Riga. The blow was at Petrograd, and, since very people have no idea of time was bound to make a pro- Impression there. It was & satisfaction to me that In Way the Meet obtained an oppor for active work its long pericd of had occurred which threw a @iequieting light, not only on te agitation which the Independent . ts had carried on among cer portions of the navy, but also the state of public opinion In Ger ¥, and, therefore, on our fighting a The aims of a «mall fraction of the > had been accomplished tn the (He refers to serious mutinies took place in the summer of following the Russian revolu ‘The outward conditions of its and its constant touch with home country had favored the Of revolutionary ideas. Many, m the best, of the regular of And engineers of some length had been detached for duty submarines. or in the High fleet, and this had not been od for discipline. A renewal of ac- ¥e Operations could not fail to im- fove and fortify the spirit of the ‘tasks of the navy were to pro- covering the sea and the Ianding, cooperate ‘Operations from seawards, and “the communications of the force with Libau. IN STATEMENT Such Bad Shape He Could _ Not Work—Took Tanlac : and Now Never Felt Better “4 was tn an awful bad condition T began taking Tanlac, but | I ever felt better in my whole p than I do now I do not remem- My” said Pete Hansen, who for the Marshall Wells Company, and resides at Salmon sttect, Portland, Ore., . Continuing, he said: “Last February | had such terrt- Theumatic pains in my legs and and my ha would swell ind pain me so I had quit (Work. 1 could get hardly any sleep mt all I was tn such misery, and fust roll and toss and groan ai night long. I was so nervous ‘Could not stand the children pliay- @round the house and the least [tle noine out of ordinary completely upset me. 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Seix and Mariel; in Italy by Fratellt Treves a France, rest, | TO TERMS mareh on the Russian capital, The presence of a large part of the German navy and its threat to sail up the Gulf of Finland helped the impression, The bluff succeeded, The Rus sian garrison on the two islands made a poor resistance, deapite the bravery of some of the small er units, Altho the Russian fleet made a good fight and permitted part of a gurrisen to escape, the idea went out thru Russia that if something were not done to placate Germany, a swift ad vance would be made on Petro. grad, It was not long before the Rolsheviki sought peace. er and HBrothera Ali rights reserved tn Canada and Reigium, Holland, Rusia and the } This force, consisting of the 424 In- fantry division and the Cyolists' brigade, was commanded by General von Kathen, whose chief of staff wi Colonel von Tschaischwita So the conduct of the operation had been entrusted to particularly capable hands. The landing place reconnoitered land selected waa Tagga bay, on the, northwest corner of Osel island. CUT OFF LONG CAUSEWAY After neutralizing the batteries on the Sworbe peninsula—the southern extremity of Osol—the fleet steamed into the Gulf of Riga, and then ad: vanced into Moon sound, while tor- pedo craft steamed round the north side of the island. They were to }bombard the long causeway which connects Ose! and Moon and cut off the enemy's retreat from Osel. They were also to push Into Moon sound from the north. The navy hoped to foree an action on those portions of the enemy's naval forces which had thelr permanent stations there, or to at them off altogether. I The object of the bob mares on Osel wns to seize the a» | soon as poanible, capture the whole | twland and #o take the defenders of the Sworbe peninsular in rear, This plan succeeded, and only a small part of the garrison escaped | by way of the causeway. On the 16th Osel was in our possession, and | Moon fell on the 18th. Soon after wards we also secured Dago. The |navy found an opportunity of en- | eaging hostile craft. This ended the fighting on the | eastern front for the tim® being. | RUSSIAN ARMY DISSOLVES How far these last attacks acceler.) ated matters in Russia I do not know. The fact ts that simultane | ously with the rise of the Rolshevists | n the autumn the disintegration of the Russian army proceeded very | | rapidly. ‘The officers lost their privi-| leged position, and all authority was |taken from them. They were not to |be regarded as more important than | the mén in the ranks; In a little | while they were regarded as less and | had no rights at all. | These measures were approved by | many people in Russia. For there, a8 elsewhere, there were many short- sighted Individuals who could not see that the strength of the army, and| all social order, rests upon authority, | and that by shaking the authority of the officers they were undermining | | the social order of the whole world. | __Hetman Skoropadsky (once ruler of | Ukraine) told me that he never no-| tleed how his corps, which he had) commanded In the war, dissotved. It simply vanished all at once. This! simple story made a tremendous im-) pression on me. RUIN WROUGHT BY BOLSHEVIKI In the army the Russian revolution | @id not stop at depriving the officer of his rights It set up the Soldiers’! council in the place of authority, and} went even further, It disarmed ali| but the proletarian soldiers and cre-| | ated the Red Guard. In the purely political sphere it acted in the same way. The bourgeoisie counted for | nothing at all; the proletarian worl | men's counell was predominant. | The proletarian Society of Work ers and Soldiers was now, by means) of its councila, to govern and reor- ganize the world All that had ex- |isted hitherto was ruthlessly a stroyed. Civilization was disint grated. Private property was to be limited | SWS! T RET CUR. UNCLES ADE CQEATER. TW ANY oF YER UNCLES. INTO A SWELL APARTMENT LiKE TH’ GUY RUNNIN’ A COLD STORAGE PLANT? jand the joy of work to be killed. | Woman became public property. Bestial instincts soon became upper- most. The chaos developed more and more Into the bloody dictator- ship of a few men, who relied on troops faithful to themselves, and on whose passions, even when they were Chinese mercenaries, they placed no restraint. The a nated by this repent na nothing to| ruined; but that meant those in power. A curlous state of affairs was thus| created. Those who never could cry | out enough about violation of rights | and against war, paid no regard to the rights of the majority, but vio- lated them more than any govern-| metit had done, called the people to; arms and made war, not againut ex.| ternal enemies at first, it is true, but generally against every existing in- | stitution. Those who disagree with them heard no word of reconciliation | Or understanding | OPPONENTS NOT UNITED And s#00n all those whe had Drevi- ously done their utmost to destroy | authority in the army and the nation recognized the danger into which they had plunged themselves and thelr whole country. Unfortunately it was found impossible in Russia to arm all the antl-Bolshevist partion, and make them sink their sectarian differences and unite for the regen- eration of the country, The peasants and the middleclass found themselves exposed, unarmed, to violation by their oppressors and fell a prey to anarchist disruption | Who knows when, if ever, they will recover their vitality? We can nee no signe of it, and merely to hope for st seems almost dangerous self-de- ception. | Possibly, like many people in Ger-! many in the spring of 1919, they looked upon Bolshevism with’ fatal-| pistic equanimity, ay an inevitable doom which must of itself produce salvation, That is » cowardly| Nyt and in Russia it had ters consequences, OTTO AUTO PooR OLD Dit Brow, He ALWANS WAS The GOAT - Vue Ser we WisHes HE WAS cage Home A Dirreeeyr PcKAse Thad We WAS THeRe — Hetil iW i STYLISH APART- MENT DEAR! SJONESES' WHAT'S THis ir) ARE you GOING TO HO@ THAT RADIATOR HELE, LETS CRoss The sreeer- wees comes BLL —By ALLMAN Muir DO You CARE = WE HAS AN ARMPUL or ne ’ BRowl WO His WiFE aunt see Bi my Ool'T carne TO ou Tes A PPP 2222 THAT'S ALL “HERE WAS NESSR AN our UNCLE CHARLIE IS A PREACHER AN’ ALL WIS PACKAGES AN’ LETTERS AW BUNDLES NN DAW RINT NOTHIN’ AN ALL HIS PACKAGES ARE MARKED C.0.D.! MAYBE ITS TH LANDLORD TO SEE IF WE'RE STILL ALIVE? Bolshevism is not to be found injdrafted the armistice conditions, By November the Russian army was looking on and doing nothing, but In/They were based on the desire to|so far corroded by Bolshevism that strong and wise action, accurate gaugthg of the enemy's strength and weakness, and also in farsighted economic reforms which would have been imperative after the war in any event. From October, 1917, on, Bolshevism in Russia obtained an ever firmer hold, ERRED IN SENDING LENINE I could not doubt that the disin- tegration of the Russian army and nation involved an extraordinary risk for Germany and Austria-Hun- gary. All the greater was my an- xiety when I thought of the weak- ness of our government and theirs. By sending Lenine to Russia our government had, moreover, assumed & great responsibility. From a mili tary point of view his journey was justified, for Russin had to be laid low. But our government should have seen to it that we also were not involved in her fall. The events in Russia gave me no cause for complete satisfaction. They considerably eased the military altua- tion, but elements of the greatest danger still remained come to an understanding with Rus sia, for the needs of the war demand ed peace in the east The fundamental idea of the armis- Uce was to cease hostilities on th line which each army held at the time. I demanded no cession of ter: ritory or aurrender of arms, The conditions contained nothing that might make the armistice or the fu ture peace more difficult. The draft wan submitted to the imperial gov ernment and the allied headquarters and was agreed to. Minor changes involved no alteration in principle, It wns agreed with the imperial government that if the armistice was negotiated between the contending mrmies the conduct was to be in the hands of general headquarters, as sisted by a representative of the im- perial chancalilor, The latter agreed to include @ representative of general headquarters in the commission to be appointed for the peace negotiations; he was, of course, to be the subor- dinate, not the equal, of the chancel lor's plenipotentiary, COULD TAKE TROOPS AWAY T had everything ready in case Salvation from! As early as the gummer 1 had the Russians should make advances, | general headquarters could seriously | think of weakening the eastern front | al lin order to strengthen the west. had then about 80 divisions there, \onethird of our whole force, | 1 now proposed that the Austro a larger part of the line. We dis |cussed with their headquarters, and with the commander-in-chief in the east, how we could set free the great ext number of German troops on the fronta in Transylvania (Siebenbur gen), the Bukovina and Eastern Ga | Hela. General von Arz also agreed to Italy to the east. These m@asures would, of courve, be carried out only in the somewhat remote future, But it was necessary to make preparations now, so that all movements might be completed by the coming spring, the decisive period for us. Otherwise, the scheme would have been impracticable owing to the bad condition of the railways and the critical atate of transport in the oo- cupied territory and Germany. But conditions in Russia prevented our taking too drastic decisions hs yet. MOVES THE ARMY WEST Fron | Hungarian troops should take over) send Austro-Hungarian troops from | wards troop-trains were incessantly passing from east to west, it was no longer a case of replacing tired di- visions In the west by fresh ones, but of really adding to the number of combatants in the west. The training of the troops in the east for the western conditions was pushed on, and the same was done in j Rum: ania The idea of making an attack in France in 1918 occupied many of our generals as early as November, my- self, perhaps, most of all. I therefore eagerly awaited the day when the Russian government would ask for an armistice, At the front numerous local truces were made in November. Larger and larger formations made overtures to us, and already individ: ual Russian armies made proposals for ceasing hostilities. Peace negoti- ations were attempted at Dvinsk (Dunaburg), but came to nothing. In some places armistices were de- nounced. It was a confusing picture, half peace, balf war, On November 26 the Russian com- mander-in-chief, People’s Commis: sary Krylenko, inquired by wire! whether we were prepared to con clude an armistice. We agreed, On December 2 the Russian delegates cromed the German lines. Ni the end of November om tions began without delay at Brest: don Litovsk, where the commander-in- chief in the east still had his head- quarters, At the same time the four allied powers (Germany and allies) sent their representatives, By De- cember 7 a 10 days’ truce was agreed upon. General Hoffman conducted these negotiations very skillfully and kept the Bolshevist representatives to the point. The discussion was limited to the matter in hand. The Russians returned temporarily to Petrograd with the draft agreement tn order to obtain h instructions. Negotla tions were reopened on the 12th, and the armistice was signed on the 15th It was to begin at the termination of the truce at noon on the 17th, and continue until noon on Januafy 14, 1918. If not denounced at seven days’ notice it would continue auto- matically, ‘ The original draft had not been fundamentally modified; the Russian front had not changed, and no neu tral zone was created. The respec: tive wire entanglements were consid ered as the boundaries, Indeed, at the request of the Russians communi cation between the two fronts had been arranged at certain points of passage. sre, menstr vecortred thats kay | | carrying on propaganda, Thelally trainey commander-in -hief in the east was Positive that he could frustrate this attempt by suitable measures. We therefore accepted this condition merely to make an end of the busi- ness. The agreement was officially binding on the whole Russian front; but the power of the government of councils did not extend so far. It therefore became necessary to enter upon special negotiations on the same basis in Rumania and Asia Minor, These were also brought to @ successful conclusion, The anm- istice of Focsani was concluded on December 9. HALF LITER OF RICE RATION OF FILIPINOS MANILA, Dee. 8.—Rice is being issued to residents of Manila at the rate of a half liter per day for each adult. Children under 12 years of age receive half that amount, and certain grades of laborers some. | what more, OTTAWA, Dec. 8.—Canada is training 19,290 ex-soldiers tn the arts of peac according to oCl arts of peace, acording te Col, secretary, These are disabled men and minors who are being veontien