Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-05
BY GEN. ERICH Won LUDENDoRFT


helped the Austrian army more than
its own defence. Owing to the COM
plete failure of our aines south of the
Dniester General Won Bothmer with
his German army above the Dniester)
saw himself compelled at the Begin
ming of July to withdraw his right
wing from Buczacz as far as the mouth
of the Koropiec about 10 miles.)
Thanks to- the excellent influence of
our army and the Austrian troops
with it, all the Russian attacks had
been beaten off.
While the Russian onslaught on the
Austrian army was gaining it's first
successes, and when the greater part
of the reserves of the commander in
chief in the east and of Field Marshal
Prince Leopold of Bavaria had pro-
ceeded TO the relief of our allies
front, a violent Russian attack was
delivered against Woyrsch's army
group (north of the Pripet marshes
and about 100 miles from the Pripet
Dattlefield) on June 10. 1t collapsed
completely after extraordinarily Sc
we're fighting. The army group and
: General Won ,Woyrsch were compelled
to throw in all their reserves.
At that time we were anticipating
an attack at Smorgon (2,00 miles
south of Riga) or, as now seemed
more probable, on the old battle
fields of March, and at Riga. AT
these points the Russians We're still
! in very great strength. In spite of
this we denuded our front to the ut
most to help the armies in the south.
| We even had battalions to serve as
reserves for our long lines. | formed
Al hot ,lt ut
depots, although L realized that if the
Russians had a really great success at
any point these units would be but a
drop of water on "a hot stone.
In the first place the Russian
forces on our front had not been no.
ticeably reduced. They had to decide
| whether they would really attack us,
or follow up and consolidate their sue
cesses in the south. OF course they
realized that we and Austria Hungary
| would send reintorcements. They
meant to obtain a decision on the
Austrian front but had such large re-
serves at their disposal that they could
attack us in force as well, and thereby
prevent us from sending further help
10 the south.
While the Germans and Austrians
were concentrating round the Lutsk
salient, on the Dniester and in the
| Carpathians, and in the second half
! of June making local attacks nearly
everywhere, the Russians rushed up
reserves to the points where they had
broken through and brought the Ger
man local efforts to a standstill by
counter attacks.
In the middle of July, after severe
| fighting, in which the Austrian troops
! eli ob
power, they prevented the Germans
from developing their initial successes
in the Lutsk salient. The enemy
! gained still more ground south of the
| Dniester in the direction of the Carr
pathians
| While all this was taking place at
! the two main points of attack, the
Russians embarked on violent on
| slaught on the front of the COM
mander in chief in the east, between
Lakes Narotch and Visehniev and at
| Smorgor, on the army group or
Field Marshal Prince Leopold of Ba-
varia, northeast and south of Baran-
oiei, and on Won Linsingen's army
group in the bend of the Styr. (This
was a front of more than $50 miles
| from a point south of Dkinsk to the
northern edge of the Lutsk salient.)
General Bothmer was also engaged.
/ In July a terrible struggle was
raging on the eastern front while in
the west England and France were
! gaining their first successes on the
Somme. We managed to hold out
against the attacks, and beat them
off in battles lasting many days.
The line of Woyrschs group Ito
| the north of the Pripet marshes)
was successfully forced at the point
where it was held by AustroH Hun
garian troops. To fill the gap we
threw in all our carefully boarded
reserves. They held their ground,
and from July EDWARDS the battle
here died down.
! Austrians Again Beaten.
The Russian offensive at the bend
of the Styr, north of Lutsk, was COM
pletely successful. The Austro- Hun
garian troops let let their lines be
broken through in several places.
The German units that had been sent
to help were once more in critical
position, and on July Z General Won
Linsingen was compelled to with
draw his left wing behind the Sto-
chod. The right wing of Field Mar
shall Prince Leopold of Bavaria's
army group and part of Gronau's
group, south of the Pripet, had to
retire also.
Il when Brussiloff broke through
at Lutsk the Germans and Austrians