The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1919, Page 20

THE SEATTLE STAR—ERIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1919. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Olivia Picks Out a Christmas Tic ~ By ALLMAN ) Tank TaaT’s A Sweat Neckrie ! “TOM, Do You S86. ANYTHING WELEN, WHAT'S ‘Tue | THATS A DeAuTi PUL ° je a A- Si |;pope WARREN WILL LiKe IT / This WILL MAK@ A dice |Go BUND IF H WRONG WITH THAT 4 MATER WITH THS | BeLreutH eee, | Guess LL Snow Ir TO WiLOUR ; : m For [ Weags Ir Twice neckrie P — 118 Biamed OLD NeckTie® f THAT For?! | AND SRE WHAT HE THINKS ~ : 2 ete l " j | woven we wav) i apnialbigy noni Bf ApouT IT- ade 0 GBT tv nr, Li 2 ‘sar f ay, le | BY EUGENE J. YOUNG ! Germany, in the ¢ disast Bad surrender, found one MWe Were starved into submins @amMe the shout. “Our army w Ways invincible. The work ould not beat T t German military Periority, buile “preparation and Funning nations no Survived for a ‘ n all CONSTANTINE in Germany was wing. Meme SAVED HUNGARY 8s persisted of ca vi Ludendorfft adm German als Je them: | was t Igeives German ¢ : Poldiers had seemed to Bimes their numbers s« BRIN and courage Not alone in Germany Many in the world invincibility ortrésses east Moet about the German military ma. | Us WA’ acti oa — eres senicnnsillpabacnaioiataie ine to Knock the prope from under | *Pared to me NUL SURPRISE 4 T WAY, THATS YOUR “Wany of these tilusi Ludendortt BT ir yrryy he pea % ANNIE. BY GETTIN’ / ce = oy rs eee Teed Sigel his blunt | Promised ed Ls \ 1 THOME SO EARLY ES O THA acy tare i a ny but the we a saliae tue ancien * ; thet joscoen a CLOSET w | — | Nowa pide tions of sor ‘oe » well MAKE 00M FoR! secrets of the German m ad aaa’ e , My XMAS ol e and its campaigns r" “ te mu p in trater small nation hould not have i 4 eh sets down. / Bequences : Bo much is crowd J * ed i it one can t the LEARNED OF revelatior “ PRENCI PLANS iver, to pre * aye intrigue helpe< on when b boasted efficien been decid: nefficient Might in ¢t ‘ ing showed Lu so . But the Schiie Carried out proper! GO wanted gh Sand toc IWRroops for bis attack on the , " - reases in the center that the : ares 7 right wing, rushing on P . : onan CON JUMBO we ee coe ond Ont me 191 went ate RATS. RATS- RATS. : e Marne gare ° A vital blunder made ir TN GONNA LET LIM Culation of the tir sh r > he a OUT FOR Va left to cover East Pru 1 we sdiebhider taniins \ GET A Now ! io the v t at - ted by the ies ARMY ANNIMILATED ntrigue here saved the , went to save the situ BAmits he could never have d out his s except for the of Gener. nnenkampff, a te of the czarina & rother [the German governer of Thor Was in command of one of the I armies of invasion. Renr apef, with a beaten arm F pel Fetreat before him, suddenly jpegore his advance into East Prue! sufricient ” IMA At the end of September, 1914. | wy ; with 400,000 me eit + ety Rae ifn Up for almost a week > i ry while Lu the Germans, whom f should have ke nir t and annihilate Samsonoff's ;,, wt s my of 250.000 n the battle |, i oA ‘s All Prevared peers: Dr wf © army f t = ———— - ————+ : - - iicnptt's tredchery 414 not |ty attected » A ypeitingy 1 Aaccdgl IVE GOT CHRISTMAS NOW Iveé GOT ETHEL > | ( ALL IVE GOTTA DO NOW is YOUR HONOR, I ae Sits army Was Sill 8 | troope woul stand on the defensive PRESENTS FOR CLARICE AN BELLADONNA FIXED Borrow SOME DOUGH To WANT TO GO INTO to East sia; so he let had to at © derff, with half bie numbers ov te r fighting spirit AN SULIE; NOW T'LL UP. AN’ tty LITTLE GWE TH HALL Boys, TH’ BANKRUPTCY ON ot olageinse wieergghaend Ralebis El pdiinaagiemg omer SET SOMETHIN’ For NEPHEWS, AN’ TH JANITOR, THE ASHMAN, THE DECEMBER 26 taken without enormous loss j ies 0 campaign the ETHELBERT! JANITORS KIDS - J OFFICE BOYS AN' MY ®& real defense been made. | greatest military « rt in the history STENOG RAPHE t Ikampff ordered a hasty re-|of mankind. With scarcely an at . On ene? oo which resulted in the disorgany (tempt at exculpation he shows hie ie SS Fg imation of his army and the loss of |self driven by circumstances to do y guns and men things he knew were strategically ? SoPinally this arch traitor saved | UNWise, and makes no bones of ad it's whole campaign in the |™tting that every attack he started when in November, 1914, he de. | Went Wrong for 36 hours the Cossacks, who| From the first his chief idea was been ordered to close the trap|'© #@t to the Channel! ports as far Gmto which the grand duke had man.|** Boulogne. There he would cut NeGivered the five fichting army corps | '® British off from their short Saf the Germans. Ludendorff admits commu tions across the Chan. that if this trap had i force them to send thet War might have been ¢ y ¥ ships on longer journeys or ® Russian invasion of Germany and open sea, where the U boats Austria would have a better chance to get Ludendortf’s reputation as a great | them. He would also Strategist started with these battles, | Pases fr the raiders capid =) eo his confession that Rennenkampft ing n under fire of t ne ; gave him his succe 04 stone | big guns that were used ‘eke tradition of Germ. vi lit Always his mind w thie BITTER OUARRKEL and ‘at no time w able Bitter quarreling among the HUIED BY eat military chieftains appears » “AMERICAN DANGER” his tale of the Russian camp ¢ Firat “tt Amerionn Gar ee sae Hindenburs : ‘ . m if (Perowe LEAVING CHinA 1 whit ? ug = SS) [ses uKt THAT. BUTT CANT COMPETE. eee cmsh with’ GC a wa ting into « LLY =~ fo UNWIND A LIL! ALEC © oD) WOW THESE CHINESE CHOW ATHLETES: Falkenhayn. chief of the at ge ation ‘ 1 - a . Ov ONE OF “THOSE LEFT WeerDED ' x a WHEN fT COMES TO POLE- VAULTING ‘eral staff and intimate of the kaiser g¢ acrow ocean 4 % 80 OF TE Hite: OVER & BOWL OF RICE WITH A n entes I Se! SET OF CHOP STICKS ~ Palkenhayn won. Not only were the th vuld Pe 7 eas j . Fs : EE Edidendortf.Hindenburg plans upset. |t iF fiak Y ‘ ™ Gp AS but Marshal Mack and w n i . \ iy von and + Maser S Prince Leopold of were before a sould > given independent nds, with | arrive. So ul wait for the =) the result that the various armies mud of t ary led each other and allowed the| pick a ba jan armies to get out of a bad | could buld move in the early spring. He MFap. into which they had been be-| was forced to « © Pic ety en Mrayed, as Russian records have since! tho his advance would lead hit inte Meown, by the treachery of the the district he had devastated emarina. terrain over which he could not This quarreling continued on the © rapidly astern front until the summer of) ‘Thi drive, he frankly explains,| Dee ae ee _——e ent awry, and the dults ham-|was able to try his F + drive! C 4 F js A ae 7 iB ct | Maine ad dy ks m-! we le to try his Flanders’ drive|Chateau-Thierry. This was all well|spirit. of |r ' » July 18 and wrote “fini «| August 20 was another “black]Hindenburg to Chancellor Max, ae eae ace rege ot » April he could not bring to bear! enough 4d would have been to his! home’ front and the army; be dared | offensive. day The French bad smashed his | October 3, 1918, saying “The situ. Se da ei he had prepared thru the winter/ around Soissons had been equally | disintegrate under the blows he! OF AMERICANS jsome of his divi and may at any time compel us to | R d ha be bor vail and were > wea and battered to ~ aggressive and swift. But the cau-| knew would : i ae ie ‘ - ounter attack and he had ordered|take desperate measures. and had to g¥ound over which he able to bring up troops to this point NO THE CH pres aE ee ee ee ine tight LER AHCI | TERRIBLE END” W 1 wer ! wee ‘ere mere to sup! men in line He broke thru the and o at a “ 1 . port his attack 2 oa be. lla anal all tt more he would try for the! ing tr Marne pocket, in which | TO GET PEACE Angered by Wilson's demand for Ke {Portuguese division west of Lille, formed. ow : The artillery of the Arras army|and made a big hole, but could not) wy ere ch and Prince Rupprecht was! the Americans did the largest share He decided September 28, after the : blundered; the barrnge went ahead|rush forward with sufficient swift.|. N°W Tudendorft was fo rdered to make ready, First, bow-| of the attacking, 10 of his divisions | New York 27th division and the 30th ising In don u Of the infantry; within .three days|ness, and Foch reunded him up in|@P All thoughts of the 1) ever mdendortf must make the} were completely broken up and after: | division had broken the Hindenburg They have also bi this army was “exhausted” by thelanother pocket reaching into the/4rive until he could retric Marne afe. So he struck’ on| ward he had to take out of line for} jine, and while the Americans were Borniture for the childre terrible pounding given by Byng|lowlands of the Lys armies’ blunders, He admita pin) Poth s of Rheims July 15 to reorganization the army that) smashing toward Sedan, that p her presente, and had reall secomplished noth This failure brought a formidable| attack between Noyon and Mont ee out the = : had opposed the he knew! must be asked without 24 hours’ * ax the big sole ob. e makes no effort to le his six days before that Boissons | jay The tuation could only be ones, in alr ¢ *|ithru at St. Quentin and pushing ders and Picardy. We was forced, ject the straightening of me fy | complete defeat He merely give ttack was conting and had made] come worse,” he wrote, “Whether it They have some old west and south drew the fores of|to do something to draw the French| between the Amiens and Marne|t® boastfulness of the Germans—| all preparations for it and thought) would slowly or with terrific speed Jewelry, which has its the drive acrow# the devastated dis|southward before he could take up| pockets, so they could be made nate | Who at home loudly proclaimed that) the front waa “sound could not be foreseen og OR ge on irate eee 1 trict, #0 that when the F ch and} hix main plan again. So he made| while he turned his attention to the|® blow Was to fall at Rhelms—as) «August 8, 1918, was the black day Germans had prepared by the end bear rug ata very low figure Pritioh closed the gap Ludendorff|the feint toward Paris across the|north, The June attack, he bluntly | Me reason for the French readiness) of the German ar in this war.” | of August, 1918, to burn London and | stags anger the kaiser dismissed NT Sch tiene has sever turnnd found himself in the great Amiens! Chemin-des Damee He admits he| remark failed “because thi time | » smash the drive, The second di That was when the h and] Paris by “use of a particularly ef-| yim, -— down any desery lo pocket, “in a strategieal situationhad no idea of striking for the|the French were ready [ho hod given orders to break off) Wrench--and a few Amerigans—bit | fective incendiary bomb," but — the The kaiser’ . the attack to the east of the cit off the nose of U Amien salient cheme was vetoed “because of the the downfall of autocracy, Luden- dorft urged the German people to | fight on, but Scheidemann told him the workmen were saying: “Better terrible end than terror without nd Ludendorff's downfall was brought ‘bout by the order issued to the § army October 24, 1918, saying Presi | dent Wilson's demand for the end of autocracy “is unacceptable to us soldiers.” Frightened by the reich. ing The ipporting army broke| concentration of the allies in Flan-|didier in June had for its 2 peda A abdication was an by no means favorabie French capital and bad no design| Here we come to the turning 3 nounged November 3): Se aaa LACKED TROOPS {of going even as fur as the Marne. 1s , ME} the third day he had ordered the} German commanders were caught at ral military situation M Pas a Ne.) poin fe reveals that at the con-| fr, Rae rats | ax, the chancellor, “of his own so}dier : FOR FLANDER ONE ARMY FAST; Fettalall (Er SIA @tive Hie Jeneyy fis |cocioed: {he tance (cet. 66 ROLL |e eee ee eee ee caalths ata {mnie Site Cone he elty today are abe | This ket lengthened bis lines| ANOTHER SLOW Neale Rn M8) crossed the Marne south of Rheims, | pletely broken; retiring troops shout. | given in France by the United B, \to Holland t © G2-men in hospitals. Some of ens tc | ‘ great strategic gamble was a fail his same day he had begun the | ¢ i. Gen “Hlackleg! oink: wilt . ¥ , und “on the adv We pverlooked this fact, "The || #74 forced to the front troops that] Again his plans went wrong.|ure; for he seriously conside all | and this PAY aceite Arta THe ee cia eaten |e tas facarea at general headquarters Ivage Departinent needs every- || Otherwise he might have used in|One of hix armies found the going|abandonment of the offensive. ThelGuampaxne to Manders for Whit |e nie ee Drolenging tn hye LPN pn Ned r ee y Y| prince offered his “unconditig thing which you can not use, par- [| Flanders, it also npelled him tojeagier than he had expected, swept| Americans were in| the | ary fo va Thie at_made Ludendorft de- | defeat ® hac « ¢ ervice” and it was refused by tiewlarly clothing. pl a eR edly @ 10 mtraighten|actoss the\ Aisne. and the Veeholisasee hed Door awe, net, bis} was to be hit last dexperate blow. | clde “The war must be ended." ‘The | about Pershing’s drive at St. Mibiel | jin 7 | m “ . - Lp ne ono . vas @ he eadquarters of | = nl “ € of and nia § officia ‘epor wa oo | Salvage phone Elliott 4512 out the long and exposed south|down to the Marne, and was career-| longer had the superiority with * B. at Se. headaw rtera of | kaiser told him “that aft the fail-}and his official report t : a | WR CALL flank ing town! Paris until it was|which he began his attacks, Hi he fe igi n Pic np na the} ure of the July offensive and atter | tavera x Coal being shipped during winter! Thus, when the and he! stopped by the er plans §=when io Americans broke| August 8 he knew the war could no] The peace offer to President Wil: | must be “thawed out” before it a mud dried Americans around kept on for only one reason; the quru south of Soissous the morning | longer be won.” + son was forced by 4 telegram frombe unloadedy ¢~ ~—-epeniiiedt