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| i t ' if : } 7; a “4 4 f THE SEATTLE STAR--THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 1919. EXPLOITED UKRAINE, ADMITS LUDENDOREFF Teday’s instalment concludes the | raised against the policies adopted. publication of Ludendorff's book,| Ludendorff, as usual, gives the “My Thoughts and Actions,” with » | necessities of the German army and chapter In which he endeavors to ex: | people as bis excuse for the woes in euse the hard policy of German mill: | flicted on another people. tarism in the Ukraine after the) The portion of the book dealing peace of Rrest-Litovak, The ruthless | with the drives of 1918, the collapse exploitations of this country by Ger-| of the German war machine and the mana, who often robbed and killed, | frantic efforts that led to peace were was too mach even for the Germans | published at the beginning of the at home, and many volces were | series. “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Lundendorff Published by The Star thru epectal arrangement with the MeClure Newspaper fyndicate. Copyrighted, 1919, by Harper and Brothers All rights reserved Copyrighted In Great tain by Hutchinson & Company and the London Times im Spain by Messrs, Seix and Bartel; in Italy by Fratelli! Trew tn Canada and Australia. All rights reserved for France, Belgium, Molland, Russia and the Boandinarean countries In the Ukraine, the German troops |} had, after taking Kieff on March 1.) Amazing revelations made by | | 1918, continued their advance more) Ladendorff in his book will be slowly. Odessa had fallen on the! | reviewed tomorrow by Eugene J. 12th, after a slight resistance, In| | Young, War Editor of the New York World, who has handled DOINGS OF THE DUFFS —By ALLMAN ’ | “Tom ILL WALK DOW WITH You Om witeYou Go It Tus a” Conn) ‘This MORNING - | WANT Td DO Store Wirt Me A second ALITTLE CHRISTMAS SHOPPIG | Warr ‘To Ger Some t HER TO BWV A FEW BuT | HAD TO CHRISTMAS PosT CARDS? CHRISTMAS POST CARDS, IT WILL ONLN TAKE ME A MINUTE TCOVLD Go IM THERE AND Do fT IN TWo MINUTES Au Rigiy LeTSs GET STARTED (MA urrree LATE this operation German troops, = Gee) auenaah tte eae tee y 7 had advanced thru Moldavia after | | 0 wi e P Awww. 3 r SAT , =a | PETER- | NEEO ABouT 475 ms & ae ces | | anaae that te we IMME WELL, HE f TH’ \DEA OF : the conclusion of the preliminary san the nbeees ct pride 10 MILLER SAYS Tueys | | RIGHT- HES Wong ANY CHILO NOT MORE ~ "VE GoT TO GET peace with Rumania on March 7,| | 0 had co-operated. In the succeeding | | For those who wish to get a clear period general headquarters had to) idea of the events of the war, dea so iee for which | | tis review will be invaluable ore ner lpia and well worth keepin the eceupation of the Ukraine had been undertaken, and to carry the | & tine. eros | advance no further than those ob-/livering grain to us The govern fects necessitated. jment disappeared from the scene Whe Ukraine had asked for our| 8nd Hetman Skoropadski assumed help. We ourselves, and even more | contro! Austria and its army, needed grain;| While at the end of April and the country could not, therefore, be early in May I was occupied with allowed to become as source of important work connected with the strength, to Bolshevism. We had to operations in the west, I received strengthen jt sufficiently to enable through the emperor's military cabi it to be useful to us. net a telegram from the imperial ‘The principal grain district we had | chancellor to the emperor, complain occupied after the capture of Chark-|Ing in strong terms of the “mil off on April § The commander in | tarist” attitude of the group head chief in the east now found that the; quarters at Kieff and requesting his railways couki not be worked with. | majesty to remedy it. out the coal of the Donets basin! ‘The military cabinet had informed (@pposite the northeast corner of the tne imperial chancellor that his | | Black Sea). So, willy-nilly, we had to| majesty proposed that in the firet agree to occupy this part of the) instance the whole episode should be LX ———aE Ukrain well and to advance OUT | investigated by means of a jc Anes far as Rostoff, which was) quiry by the authorities con reached at the beginning of May. In DENIES “ spite of this, we were obliged at) piotie frst to send very considerable quan- | SANTA Gove Me BELIENIN’ THERE'S PRESENTS FoR AUNT AN. AN’ MANGE i FIFTY CENTS To : A SANTA CLAUS: 4 8 HE'S RIGHT - @vi To You AN’ HE SAD HED BE AROUND CURISTMAS — ——=- Of coal fram Germany to the| ! looked forward to this with sat Now, Donrr You : 3 GRE, ARE WE ALL NES, BUT WY DONT Atice wh owever, de | ifaction, for I was firmly convinced * - ' " Ueraine, this Import however, 46 hat probing the matter tothe SHE THAT Tus EARTH : STANDING UPSIDE WE FALL OFF TH exprn > peg mc tants able localty, ee a ee TURAS AROUND AND DOW THEN, WHEN WE ADE 2 ORE Besides the railway, we also need udice, we should once more WHEN WE ARB ON THE J poo? VEEPS US Foo e@ secure water transport from the ere was in the whole on ° FALLING | Black Sea ports to Braila. The Rus- In this case we did not even UNDER SIDE we e! sian Black Sea flect had caused us| "each the conference stage, for |: Gifficulties at Odessa, Nicolaieff and|W®4 foct made clear that the field Gheron. Which government it was marshal and the ambassador under was doubtful; in any event, it| Personally worked well together. id not carry out the conditions of 8 1 happened. * ariem” } the peace of Brest. In Sebastopol it|>8d nothing to do with it | would always be a danger to naviga-| What actually occurred was that thon; #0 at the end of April we oc-|4uring the course of events @ gen | empied the Crimea. Part of the Rus |¢ral had dealt somewhat harshly | sin fleet escaped to Novorossixk. It} ¥ith a former member of the gov-| ‘was intended to make use of the ernment, whose conduct had be| sbipe captured in Sebastopol so far|trayed a highly doubtful attitude to (@ we could provide crews for| Ward German interests. But the | them. |whole business left a bitter taste | The oceupation cf this extensive behind. I only mention this incident) | territory had led to fresh conflicts | because it was characteristic of the w@th Bolshevik bands and troops. In| feeling in Berlin | mest cases they were driven off) (The Incident of which he makes| without trouble. After the advance|!ight was the overturning of the, aus stopped the commander in chief | Ukraine parliament and cabinet by} [im the east had agreed upon a line|“erman troops ané @ entablish- | +@@ demarcation with the soviet gov-|™ent of Skoropadski as dictator.) | eanment. | They were a'ways ready there It was significant of this govern | f° 2% instead of with us. It} \mment that ft often accused wor as thousht mates importa t to con-| KEEPING UP W " | tider certain political 1 a J l J 4 (ESE, { erate Se skecree te el MEMPING UP WiTG TAS JONEXES You Know How It Is > ar chief that Bolshevik !stter, like Field Marshal von Rich MAYBE IF YOU £ THAT AIN'T A ims A AFLE THANKS [te. HERE - SE car tage were’ to protect | tne gresest consequence tocar rar] | SANTOR His || BAD IDEA . ||| WHEN I TCE THE prove Mans Af rons’ BA 0 Crt LAW THIS Ubsfertunately the foreign office ap-|*istence. It was particularly re-|| | XTUAS PRESENT Now CLARICE! ILL OLD BOYS PALM HERES Your peared to believe Bolshevik lies rettable that, without hearing the! WE NIGHT GET A Go DOWN WITH THIS, \fE than our statements. other side, the war minister had/ After a good deal of discussion |*ided with the government | with the Austrian headquarters at) SKOROPADUSKI i Faden car respective sphere of in-| AIDED INVADERS | terest in the Ukraine was settled % i * | On this, the quartermaster general to be n man nia Ghaas & ote oon] effected an agreement with Austria-|sinie to work well. He was de! Hungary, and the exploitation of) termined to maintain order in the the supplies was regulated. After) country, and to meet us as far ns wards, however, in view of the way) possitve. 1 made his sequaintance Austria-Hungary had been seizing |iater and formed a very good im our supplies, this agreement had tO | pression of him He was never be modified, so that we undertook | superficial but etrated to the the collecffhg of supplies in the} bottom of everything whole of the Ukraine and their div) General headquarters could not be tribution. This was only an expedt | otherwise than satisfied with the ent, unfortunately a necessary one.| change of government at Kieff, as in order to establish a practical|it was favorable to the prosecution working system. |of the war. I anticipated being A CONFUSED able to increase our armies and our SYSTEM |food supply; and the raising of new The German military and civil| Ukrainian formations was actually authorities found ample scope for|commenced. ‘This, of course, re their activities. I followed every-| quired time and brought us to thing with great attention, since| mediate relief. The German troop general headquarters was principally|that were in the Ukraine were terested in the result Field mar gently needed by the er ghal von Eichhorn had taken over | protection - the army group at Kieff; the « curing the ernment was represented by Am-|tion of the ec Whenev bassador von Mumm. The collection| wanted to reduce them OUGHTA GET PLENTY OF HEAT TH REST Of “THE WINTER! LITTLE HEAT PUDEA@'| | ayy sip Hirt FIVE DoLtars! nst NEXT TO HARPOOMING CHOP Suey, Te FUNG SEEMS TO OR TH’ of supplies was in the hands of plained that they were not POPULAR POSTING HERE tot CHAM - imperial economic office (Reichs: | enough WRLL CHONG OF “TOP, TLL Seine wirtschaftsamt.) | The imperial economic o A more confused and many-headed| sued a peace-time poll organization it was impossible to im-| Ukraine which anticipated a agine, and it was all due to Berlin's |of affairs that did not exist; to that unfortunate attitude toward “mili-|no one could obj provided that tarism,” as well as to its own “bu-| with the more limited economic reaucratism” and hide-bound meth-| policy the purely military motiv ods. |for which I pleaded, was not there- As was to be expected, the new|by excluded. In its need Austri government of the Ukraine had| Hungary had taken drastic me proved incapable either of settling | ures. altho it did not get any the wnrest in the coun thing li mat Count Czernin, a oe -|in Febr had stated to be n cy | Osmary, supplies it drew fror - - vance at nen — —. _- pomeee What Experience |the Ukraine, combined with our as:|our warlike capacity, had soon to,them too soon, nor in too great) formed at Danzdg under Gen.) been occupied trom the north by |nish army, asisted by German in- Taught Her— jsistance, undoubtedly saved Austria|be abandoned, strength, so that his Finns might! ount von der Goltz; it consisted | the white guards; strategically this | structors. 2 Stary Alden was home Sor 6 tow pases its army Seam starvation | By oceupying the Ukraine we had | have some fighting to do, and three battalions of Jager, three|was a good move; what its actual! That we did not achieve more in e a Gaye rest. She had been nursing | GREAT HELP | considerably ned the mil thereby gain confidence. Those | regiments of mounted rifles (Kaval- result would have been, if the deci-| Finland is mainly owing to our ever 1c) ess Stendily for three months and was | FROM UKRAINE |poticy of the soviet > nound military ideas, llerie-Schutzen) and a few batteries.|sion had not taken place further | yaccillating policy. Gen. Count von Sagged out, | Only the most urgent needs, how-|We also — established With the consent of the imperial|It landed at Hango early in April,| west, could not be foreseen, owing |der Goltz had won universal confi e att Pee ete ae ee onto , were natinfied, and even then|with many represe cvernment, of which we continued |Whtch Gen, yon Mannerhelm with|to the uncertain fighting value of /dence, even that of the leading poll- Preventio : 3 ‘The door opened and her Zowe ge. How not receive the br grain | tiot ao ove of ; uy |to assure ourselves, we first estab ne Finnish white aeons who had atl SOE eee ote keg Bn t , which the representative of a er, Helen came in from school. and forage so urgently required to|s nd with the Tossacks, | iished an advanced base In the|been partly armed by us, was) port o © Bolshev: ro! -|the German government was not so empepes Spacanced her presenot.. 4, Ir the strength of one people! whom wo could have made use of! Aniand islands, because at that| northwest of Tammerfors with his|sia. ‘The tactical victory -and the | successful in doing. ‘The want of de- SO St bata 9s d fucky,” she sald. * Jat home. Still, the Ukraine aid|to combat Bolshevism if the gov-|time it appeared necessary to land | back to Wasa. ‘The Finnish Jager| prompt liberation of Finland were |cision in our foreign policy was un- wale in the Pig Ot hI oy fault, if you |help Germany. In the spring of|ernment had agreed to do so, a eet of fothnia, Aa a|battalion Md been sent to him.|achieved on the field of Lahtl-|fortunately made evident in this tinal canal—in consti canes I nursed could have been pre- j 1918 it supplied us with meat, and) TROO’ ’ T short time before Sweden had also| Being com® sed of picked men, it| Tavastehus by the splendid collab: | sphere also. The foreign office adopt: Nujo? reli Yented if people had paid attention to |thus the scanty meat ration we|T0 FINLAND landed treopa on the islands, we| formed an excellent training achool|oration of German and Finnish fod no definite plan, and became no- a)O« relleves consti} the colds that started them. ‘That 18 |had was made possible without en-| On the great Russlan front of|had to enter into special negotia.|for the new Finnish officers. troops. ‘This concluded operations. |body’s friend in Finland, but omly| | and is therefore most cold until they are really sick. Jecroaching upon our own livestock|the commander-in-chief of the t,|tions with that country, which pro-| While Gen, von Mannerhelm ad-| We now held positions at Viborg offended Germany's faithful adher- ive in Sickness P ‘| have had the beginnings of wey- |reserves and those of the occupied from the Pripet to the Gulf of Hin. | ceeded without difficulty. Later on| vanced via Tammerfors, the Baltic|and Narva which would at any time | °?'*- ore Oe et er eee of thane | territories liand, no change had occurred| Sweden withdrew its troops; and division moved northeast foward| enable us to advance on Petrograd,| The many proofs of warm sym. Mary’ continued. “One of the other | The army was also able to get| since arch 3 ve ourselves abandoned the islands, |'Tayastehus. In co-operation with|jn order to overthrow the Bolshevik pathy which I received from Finland ra rg RE ne ar | horses in great numbers; without} Finland had. risen, and urgently | soon after G.H.Q. had decided to|the fleet, it occupied Helsingfors| government or prevent the English |*fter my resignation, prove that Ipod Tete moet sings, (them warfare would have been al-|required immediate help, Arms|land the expedition at Hango. on the 13th of April, with a weal | from reaching there from Murmansk, | Sratitude still exists in the world. ey {ncrease yoer cold, resistance so | together impossible, for if Germany | alc ere not enough. The soviet] rey GUARDS force; the commander-i.chief in the] irom Finland, however, the Mur-| 7/8 sympathy touched me all the that the system fights off grippe german | had been obliged to raise th government made nc reparat . East landed a weak detachment un- , “4 more because it was not Finnish, but , rm Sante Of sripye core as D nO preparations 3 manak railway was flanked along its D naturally They wont make YOU feel | rorsey our own agriculture would|to withdraw its troops from Fin.) DRIVEN OUT der Col, Yon Brandenatein at Lovisn | whole length, 80 that England could|PUrely German Interests that.took “Well, they sound @ to me, Mary. |have been hard hit. We also ob-jland. The moment when that Liaison with Gen. von Manner-|4nd Kotka, east of Helsingfors.| not undertake any serious attempt us there. . had four colds already this win- |tained from the Ukraine raw ma-|country would receive istance| heim was maintained by Maj.|This detachment marched north in| on Petrograd. When in February, 19 fae ad n ante |from England wa pproaching Crantz, whom I had gent to the ag te Wack the Magpie of the The English expedition which had|'sh government, for no reasons that a he hope ‘ nat the grain of the| In: order to prevent the forma-| Finnish headquarters, where he set re puarde, whe wae near sevew, occupied the Murman coast was firm. |I could understand, made difficulties ne would prove to be an eco-|tion of another Hastern front 1} tled how the German troops were|tehus, at Taht, In a concentric !iy held there, The diversion of the|about my staying there, a Finnish en nom! weapon which would *im-|to increase our military stre »,|to be employed. Co-operation with | attack they wero completely sur | weak Baltic division, of which the delegate suddenly appeared at im fain a veactable Iazative instead, | Prove our position in regard to the| we complied with Finland's request | G von nerhelm ws always |Tounded after heavy fighting at the |three Jager battalions returned to|holmsgard to offer me an as tun te That Js POY you should alwayn insist | neutrals, and would bring us that |for troops. General von Manner tory, and marked by mu-|end of April and forced to #ur-|Germany tnyAugust, was well worth | Finland. I was pleased, but 5 Sear Bg Bre cont type 1 kuuw they exc ge | further economic alleviation which|heim also mupported the dispatch nfidence render, Finland was thus liberated. | whie,- ‘The’ Rinnish government at |refused, as I wanted to return to Ger- pendatic.! ~ was so in nt for maintaining! of German troops, Me did not want The Baltic division had been In the meantime Viborg had’ once set about organizing the Fin- many.