The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1919, Page 20

ss oes ARMY LEADERS THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1919. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Olivia, You MaveNy seen mv RING ay PLace ~ [Ve Losy Ir! I've loowdd Ts house An Danny Did His Shopping Early. Tom, I've Lost my gig! WH DANY, WHAT I've Looked EVERY PLACE Age You Dome whrn On,Him SO Sweet - GOING Loo AGAIN To GIVE wz2eER A CAmSTmaAS AuO (Li PUT FEARED CRITICISMS “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Lundendorff 1917) the summer and auturr Important political the AustroPoliah one. (Austro Hungarian foreign ter) had succeeded firet of all winning rou and Ben the imperial chancellor and Sec of State von Kubimann, to his of thinking Directly after Hertling had taken office, « counc!] was convened to deal this matter, which the field and I were ordered to at Count the emperor Whe imperial chancetior and the of state were Bavarians, ¥ice-chancellor, Von berger. They were fo the conditiuns of the eastern of Prussia and favored the (Austria pro ish king in War suserainty) The 1 secretaries main with field morvhal and I expressed sed upon militarty My orguments are cor by the conditions eval end which ilustrate in form the danger I antic! But the field marshal and 1 outvoted The emperor ordered fo report what military arrenge fits would make the Austre-Polish acceptable to us. therefore sought a way out of ficulty. it could only be found wider protective belt along Prussian frontier. the meantime, in the territory the commartder im chief tn the BE Matters had developed as a re BE of the instructions issued tn Au im a favorable manner in im Lithuania however, the Wation hed become unsatisfactory Beptember, in accordance with “instructions of the commander & Major von Goxzier had suc im forming a lorai counci! at He was able to revive to extent. the historic constitu Mfe of Courland § The nobles sense to follow his lead, and the Letts to take part in the loca! council They ac AN those who think that the of all existing institu the salvation of a coun that the Letts had too little. It wha indeed But it did pave the way ly future development. at the Letts no longef stood local council assembied with @ Ceremonial at Mitau and re < his majesty in an address to Courland and accept the dix | Of the dukedom. The reply of government was favor MS ARTIST WAS ATTACKED ‘+ WHILE SHOPPING whieh « with (he MeClure Newspaper and Brothers AML ighte reserved & Comp and the London Times by Frateit T ip Canada and Holland, Ruvsia and the ance, Belgium, lable, altho It refrained from finally committing (teelf | In Lithuania the corfused wishes of the look) democratic party were expressed with increasing insistence The councll was forme Vilna by forming the old poll. But tt proved able Of performing tts work, and cal life stagnated | fore he resigned, Dr, Michaelis had visited Lithuania and Courtland. and I expected that now affais® in t could be brought to a con lusion. At his request I Intende to Berlin early in November | Jon resignation destroyed my | toca! at} hopes. TRIES TO SWAY HERTLING ber I was in Ber 4 conference on ng to the territory | ander in chief in th © on the 4th, but under » new chancellor I intended to deter the presence funda: | es of the relationship | and Lithuanta with Ger © assure myself that he with the settlements ar: | at with former chancellors. the same time I wished to} then the position of the ad-| w tors by ensuring that they } Blone should be the deciding author: | ty in those countries, and not any | member of the reichstag or the im: | perial chancellor or general head-| quarters | As before, our polley tm the ter. | ritery of the commander in chief! in the east aimed at joining Courtand | and Lithuania to Germany by mean= of pervenal union under the house of Hohenzollern, 1 now considered tt desireble im the interests of our future that the two focal councli« should make a decision on the sub ject. In Courtland most of the work was already dome. nothing remained but formalities. In Vilna, on the other hand extraordinary difficulties had #Ul to be overcome. However, dott nite hopes were quite justified if the administrator received clear instruc tions, and the vacillation in our deal \inga with Lithuania wan put an end to Then it was intended in both fcountries to prepare the main out | lines of the internal constitution, as | well as for the military, economic | and political union with Germany | I met with fo opposition at the conference. The gentlemen sent by the commander in chief in the exst. who did not know Bertin as 1 did. | were giad to be able at last to go on with their work. I was skeptical, | and it turned out I was right The/ situation in Lithuania remained con- | | fused. The Lithuanians and d-mo- | crate began an agitation against the | aderinistrater, Lieut.Col. Prince von Isenburg. | The complainte were usually al-| | leged to be founded on the war con | ditions, for which the administraaion | could not tn any way be blamed But} the conviction was already formed, | jand_ as ft» usual in political differ. enees, no statements of fact could Tic democratic prevail against it. Eva Lesina Sent Home? jiinuiniane of Vilna were listened Operation Advised— Ends Troubles ten years I was tn such a condition I had to spend | of my time tp bed, but ks to Taniac | am now a well happy woman,” was the state- iit made recently by Mra Eva & well-known artist who Qt 1131 Fast 29th St. North, ‘4 Oregon. “I would not @ @ thousand dollars for what has done for me,” she con- & general. breakdown ago I had been very nd then I had an attack of that simply rapped nearly Bit of strength i had left. ih was so upset that ev- I ate seemed to ferment gas would press up against e and cause It to flutter so felt like it would My out of j Body. 1 had no appetite, enerzy Ambition and was too weak to | my housework, and my eleven @aughter and husband had times I got so sick down- trying to do my shoppingg 5 [Brat they had to vend me home in ‘ambulance. I became so nervous ft any little noise would make fhe jump out of my chair and I could not sleep at night because arms and limbs would Jerk pain me #0. The only way I Ket to sleep would be to walk yo ead floor a while or take a big) which seemed to My nerves. And the dreams ‘would be so vivid that I be frightened and nervous i mext day. had to give up my painting 4 1 was too weak to my brushes for more OF « of water, even than had to take laxatives five or times a week. [ was told 1 would have to on- 4M operation for appendicitis EA had been reading #0 Tanlac that 1 would not con- to an operation until I had the medicine, and with the id bottle I began to notice a improvement tn my condi 4 afier taking eight bot LI feel perfectly splendid. My tite is good and 1 never have bad after-effects from eating cep sound a8 a child every bt, have gained twelve pounds am so well | do all my he mow and paint, too, without iit of trouble. And 1 don’t ha terrible nightmares war in my old he town of t him Tanlac, He just laugh- and replied: ‘Well, hort you’ je around my ” c is sold in Seattle by Bartell under the personal di- ial Tanlac represen along the best they could.| three minutes at a time, | PT was constipated all the time! much | I guess it| Germany | to by our majority parties, and these |again by the foreign office, | BERLIN BALKED HIS PLANS | | The Lithuanians lost the habit of | regarding the administrator as the embodiment of German authority but very soon discovered that indi | vidual members were more powerful | | than the government itself These | members again indulged their vanity | by pursuing a Lithuanian policy of | their own, altho they did not know | the country. The government. anx }lously engaged in preventing general | headquarters from starting a policy on its own account, of which it had | no intention, allowed the membern to do aa they liked Under its inflaence the foreign of | flee continued to deal with the Lith | sanian question in Berlin exclusive | ly In accordance with the alleged re | quirefients of the internal political situation in Germany, and not tn ac-|: | cordance with those of the country itself, So in this casé also party | politics became the eoverning factor | in matters of forcign policy. In this way it was impossible to bring about healthy conditions tn Lithuania, every action of the ad- | ministrator, whose authority was be ing und rmined from Berlin, was |foredoomed to failure. In view of | this, the conference of November 4 jwas my last attempt to bring order |into the Lithuanian muddle, 1 aft- erwards restricted myself to pre venting absolute damage. Lieut..Col. Prince von found himaelf obliged to resign, | when he saw that the main prin | ciples of the policy which he knew |to be right were being forsaken. I | regretted his departure. GE AN PRINCES i RIVALS About the middle of December the Lithuanians were led by the imperial [chancellor to expect that their coun- | try would be recognized ag free and independent, with its | It would have to promise to conclude certain conventions with Germany. Ieenbure | Way to fall into the hands of the Poles unless the | tained conditions which secured Ger-| man influence. But the attitude of the Lit of that What prospect there bound to decrease, the more we ga way to their conflicting desires. Be- Quent | wanted a prince of the royal house appear to have been raised also. Any the civil offictais, numbers States capable of an independent very That sort of Lithuania was im a fair ¢yture. nuanians gave little promise jn, eo ? wee 7 a T= WHAT WILL een po P AN AD IW THE New sparEr. WEDLOCKED | “Gout 1 CANT UNOER- STAND (T= ANNIE HANDS ME My PIPE AN’ THEN INSISTS THAT! SIT IN TH’ PARLOR ~ = sh Semel = S| MY MESSAGE To KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES HERES WHERE CUGHTA BE CLARICE, INSTEAD OF LIVIN’ IN TH CITY TRyw' To ree YES (TIS NICE Im GLAD WE CAME QUT TO M3IT THE Struts! MITH SAYS HIS RENT IS Dirt CHEAP OUT HEE’ Hin HOW TO Am LOOK AT ALL GET TO THE ™ CONVENIENCES StutHs? AN TH FRESH AIR AN’ EVERY THING’. i je} | i Crs MAN TLE ASK rr — MAMMAS RUNG P 1 Fouuo UT On THE WASH sTano ANd 1 WAS Kenoia IT TO GWE To You rer LESEE TDey ISwT WEDDIN ANNIVER SAR WELL, WHY DIDNT Nou WAIT PoR WIM, AST IT RUNS EVERY HOUR' ToD You? TAKE TH’ NEXT ONE AND RIDE G MALES TO TH CENETERY, GET QuT AN’ TURN To LEFT AN VALI AGOUT @ HALF MILE — AniTgd apital at Vilna.' therefore, by no means pleased with this vague solution, which seemed so dangerous It General cal catchwords, nor are «mall na sonal tone kept alive thereby, I was, of Courtand ania with Prussia or ie for significent quietly the Poles accepted it. conventions con- could afford to be satisfied headquarters maintained the view formerly approved by the perial chancellor, that Lithuania should be closely joined to Germany, was was by personal union user the house of Hohenzollern, des, some Lithuanians and one ine KAISER AIDS Us delegate trom Wurtembery LITTLE RACES | The eastern questions were again e\of Wurtemberg, while on the other “iscussed at length in the conference any|hand the hoves of the Saxon house which took place at Kreuznach on December 18 under the presidency of prince at Vilna would have his majesty, in order to determine , Oregon, recently and my|had the Polish nobility at his court, the peace conditions to be presented a there asked me what|the officers of the army would be to Russia. On this occasion the em- (f me #0 stout and well,| Poles, and so would the majority of peror expressed his agreement wit) Only Prussia. the protective belt on the Prusno. (Preussen-Deutschland) Po.ish frontier (on the eastern bank could keep Lithuania for the Lithu- of the Vistula), which we had stated think Taniac Is a wonderful] anians, and provide officials and of to be Just and adequate without pro- and I recommend it to all|fieers, which they themselves could test from the imperial chancellor or nelghbor-| not do in anything like suffictent the secretary of state for foreign af. fairn The imperial chancellor agreed existence are not produced by politi with the idea of establishing per-|n vided the federal princes agreed. His | was to pro’ de better for meeting the Majesty appfoved (hy opinion, and | political needs of the country and to insisted on the necessity of allowing | comply with the wishes of the im is of other races which | perial chancellor. General Count the nat might be include? to develop accord: | von Waldersee and Under Secretary of State von Falkenhausen carried ing to their own character, Ag re garda our policy toward the people |out their duties with prudence and of Courtland and Lithusnia, this in- But, lacking clear orders from volved safecuarding the results we could undertake no con had achieved hitherto, unless we! work wished to see fresh dincers arise on | 1 a ncren our eastern frontier in the futpre wr BREST LITOVSK . GG se atuantore | ‘The negotiations at Brest-Litovak ape |beran December 22 1917. If all went Regarding honia and Livonia, | smoothly, if the people there worked his ofujesty decided to suggest evac- | with real energy, we could expect to uation to the Rus ians, without de cCOss manding itso 1 t. allow these peo In the west the next ple to exercise elr right of self. spring No delay could be justified, determination. [Tt will be obvious with what Interest This provided the foreign secre-| we watched the peace negotir tions. tary with the necessary basis on| Before we could decide on the at which to conduct the coming negoti-! tack we had to obtain a clear idea ations, of our future relationship to Rus In the interval » change had been | sia and Rumania, and of the attitude made in the administration of the] of Bolshevism towards the entente territory under the commander in|and the quadruple alliance, both chief In the east. At the head of it|from the military and the revolution. were placed a ayer ul administrative |ary point of view. It was necessary soneral, General von a Welders, and} for us to be placed in a position’ to senior adminis ve official,|do so as soon as possible. There and Lithu-| Under Secretary of Btate Frejherr | still remained a great amount of Germany, pro! von Valkenhausen. The intention transport work to accomplish, Germany's how They Their progtess was bound to exer cise a determining influence on the military decisions, since we were still at war, The really Important matter was whether they were going to be conducted in such a manner that we could attack, and make certain of finishing the titanic struggle in our favor after all, and so save ourselves from the traredy of being defeated. For the future of Germany It was allimportant that the whole eastern problem should be solved in a man ner which satisfied the interests of Prussia and Germany, and as far as possible remové the danger threat ening from Poland The decisions ar rived at on December 18 at Kreuz. nach might yet assure this. FACED CRITICISM AT HOME An exceptionally heavy responsi: bility rested on the negotiators, and this was by no meang lessened by the feelings of the people at home, which had developed under the in fluence of histile propaganda with out having been counteracted, as it should have been, by a strong and determined government. ™ ing his (M-wih and thereby making peace more difficult, and this gave rise to hostile criticism whenever definite action was attempted, re gardiess of whether the interests of the country, or the prosecution of the war, and, therefore, the final pence would be hindered thereby, The German plenipotentiary at Brest-Litovsk was Secretary of State von Kuhimann, under him was Gen eral Hoffmann, as special represen tative of general headquarters, Aus: triaHungary had sent Count Czer nin, The other powers of the quad ruple alliance were also represented Herr von Kuhimann declined the presidency; it wag allotted to the dif. ferent powers in turn In 1916 there were 72,000 divorces granted in the United States, the record among civilized nations being surpassed only by Japan. 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