Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-23
GENERALS TOLD CAR
THAT ARMY WAS READY;
WAR WAS THE RESULT
tcoutinu.d From Rage one,


the Victorious army Of Tanncnbere
and, passing four corps through the
Mazurklan lakes region, cndeavored td
pin Renckamp against the Baltic sea
Renenkamp was quick in retreat as
in advance. Perhaps the German sol.
diers were exhausted after their forced
marches through Belgium and theii
battle at Tannenberg, At all events
Renenkampf was able to establish 3
flank guard and retreat safely to SUI
walkl, leaving only a portion OF the
artillery Of the territorial divisions in
the hands OF the enemy.
Thus came to an end the girst inva-
sion Of East Prussia.
Judged by itself 1t was q complete
repulse and considerable catartro-
phe; judged by the standards u other
wars the defeat of Tannenberg Is one
Of the most severe in history, but
Judged as a fragment Of the strategy
Of this great war, it assumes differ
ent aspect
How much Won Kluck before Paris
has yearned for the six corps d'armee.
with which Hindenburg won his mar
shals baton before Alenstein, as he
saw the French reserves debouch
from Paris and take in flank the army
with which he had planned to force
the French back upon the mountain
barrier of Switzerland,
Well may II be said that the defeat
Of Tannenberg was the father Of the
victory of the Marine.
CHAPTER H.
I II will be remembered that the first
phase of the war on the eastern front
consisted in the repulse of the Aus
TRAN offensive and the division into
East Prussia. The second phase con-
eerned the moves growing out of the
Russian offensive towards Cracow
In September as again later the
Russians did not attempt to attack
Przemysl al an enormous cost of men
and ammunition, but surrounding 1t
with an army inferior to the garrison
moved on the offensive
Remembering is still at Suwalki and
the northern fortresses garrisoned, the
field army advanced to a line from
Dukla pass to Tarnow. while Kozak' S
cavalry raided Hungary.
,Iindenburg left four corps in front
of Rennenkampf and by the use of
the wonderful German strategic rail-
ways came with six corps to Silesa, on
the Russian flank. The Russians inn
mediately withdrew the three armies
nearest Tarnow to the line from Lub-
lin to Warsaw. Hindenburg arriving
before the Austrians directed three
army corps on Warsaw and three
upon lvangorod.
Bloody Fighting In Poland.
Then followed one of the most SAN
culinary conflicts of the war for the
possession Of the capital of Poland.
1t seemed to the inhabitants Of the
town that Wansaw must fall, but the
Siberian corps arrived in the nick of
time and after them the imperial
guard
member of the guards corps,
pride shining In his eyes, told me how
two regiments of the guard, totaling
5000 men, arrived as the Siberian
corps were reeling back before the
Germans onslaught and with the
flags flying and the band playing.
marched into the thickest of the at
tack. After the battles only hundreds
remained where thousands had been.
but the tide was turned. Russian re-
Inducements continued to oppose the
three corps of Hindenburg.
The field marshal now attempted
desperate maneuver. He retreated to
the Rawka river, drawing the Rus
slams after him. Then taking the
three army corps before Iyangorod he
hurled them on the pursuing Rus
slams flank, If the Austrans had
come in time. to occupy the trenches
deserted by the Germans this maneu-
yer might have succeeded but the
Austrians came late
Again the Russians poured through
the opening of the line and unexpect-
edly found themselves face to face
with the advancing Austrians. Both
parties were taken by surprise, the
Russians thinking that only the re-
treating Germans were before them,
the Austrians believing that the Ger
mans still occupied the trenches along
the Vlstula.
Iland-to-hand Battle.
confused hahd-to-h hand battle re-
suited in which the superior strength
and activity of the Russian soldiers
gave them an immense advantage
The Austrians were driven headong
ut the same time the German flank
movement was stopped and linden
burg's left army corps was driven in
Hindenburg withdrew to a line be-
tween Krakow and Kalisch, and the
Austrians went back over the noun
tains. Przemysl, which had been re-
lieyed ih the advance, wats now rein
vested.
In the meantime on the western
front had been fought the battle of
the Aisne, the English army had been
transferred to the extreme left flank
in an unsuccessful attempt to turn the
German right, Antwerp had fallen,
and the kaiser with his imperial guard
was hammering harder and harder at
the gates of Dunkirk Calais.
England found difficulty in keeping
her expedltionary force UP to its orig
inal number. Kitcheners army was
only in the form of preliminary en-
listment. Every equipped man in
France was on the firing line
Again in october, as early in Au-
gust, the Russian army attacked not
for local advantage but to rescue the
allies on the other front
With Generals Brousiloff and Di-