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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-17
Memphis District
Weather Bulletin
Memphis, Tenn, June II, 1919.
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general near TarnopoD had stood like
rock in the maelstrom of continuous
attacks, and in all essentials remained
master of the situation.
1t was clear that the Russians were
gathering strength for another mighty
blow, while we were still bleeding from
many wounds on the Somme, and the
Austro-Hungarian troops were being hard
pressed on the Italian front Storms were
threatening and our nerves were strung
to the highest pitch.
We had maintained the closest touch
with G. H. @. (the great German general
staff at Charleville) during the difficult
and anxious days we had passed through
| in Kovno since the beginning of June. We
| had repeatedly poonted out the necessity
| of unity of command on the eastern
front. OF course. if necessary, we could
have carried os an before, but it had
moved about with less friction If the
command of the whole eastern front was
under one control.
| Before the ned of June the field mar
shall and 1 were summoned to Pless (the
Kaisers eastern headquarters) to give
our views concerning the position in
the east. It could only be described as
very grave.
| OF course, we came back to the ques-
| JlOn OF the single command, ana IN lnlS
connection we emphasized the necessity
| of extending the process of introducing
German units into the Austro-Hungaria
army.
Also. Austro- Hungarian troops could
be used on the auieter parts of the front
of the commander-in-chief in the east
We urged very strongly that the Austro-
Hungarian troops, especially the infan-
try. should be trained on really modern
lines.
The journey to Pless was fruityess as
regards any settlement of the command
iquestion, for the opposition was still toe
great But G. II. Q. decided to form
three divisions for the Hungarian
front from troops taken from the west
ern and eastern fronts. These were to
be ready for use in Poland about the
beginning of August. The desifed inter
lchange of German and Austro-H Hungarian
troops was begun. and we received a
battle-worn Austro-Hungarian infantry
division, which set FIRE the 10 Landwehl
divisions of the Tenth army. This wa:
Immediately handed over to Geneal vor
Linsingen.
The Austro-Hungarian army had ar
ranged their reserves in such a way
that at given intervals each infantry
regiment had a so-called march bat
TALON" composed of reservists, assigned
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strengthened the front on both sides
of the Kovel-Lutsk railway. They
came up with the Fourth army further
south and somewhere near Gorochow
formed a strong counter offensive
group behind the Austrian wing, re-
treating to the southwest Our critical
situation did not allow of our waiting
for the arrival of all our reserves in
order to attack all together.
ANOTHER BREAK THROUGH
The counter attacks of the German
troops during the latter half of June
and early part of July obtained only
local successes. The Russian offensive
on the Dneister had broken through
tn Austrian divisions under General
Won Pflanzer- Baltin in the Okna-
Sniatin direction (north and northwest
of Czernowitz) and south of the river
soon gained lot of ground. Czerno-
WITT fell By the end of June the Rus
SLAMS had reached a line from Tlumacz
south of the Dneister. to Kolomea and
Kimpolung Can advance of more than
so miles), and were pushing on toward
the Carpathian passes.
The Austrian front south of the
Dniester, originally very short one
between the river and the Rumanian
frontier, had now become very much
longer, and this long new line was, of
course. now correspondingly thin.
Owing to the extraordinary bad
railway communications reserves could
only be brought up with the greatest
difficulty. German troops from the
front of the -chief in the
east as we'll as the western front. were
conveyed to the Carpathians and the
Dnester. Even all the fresh divisions
that were thrown in were hardly suffi-
cient to hold the front.
RUSSIANS LACKED SUPPLIES
In these circumstances counter at
tacks were inadvisable They were
attempted by our troops all the same,
but remained without result A pure
defense from the start would have been
our proper course, as the Russians
were also contending against extraor-
binary difficulties of supply and were
not very strong. This fact helped the
Austrian army more than its own de-
Tense. Owing to the complete fail
ure of our allies south OF the Dnies-
ter. General Won Bothmer with his
German army above the Dniester) saw
himself compelled at the beginning 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 1t, al
| the Russian attacks had been beater
off.
While the Russian onslaught on the
Austrian army was gaining its frs
successes, and when the greater par
! of the reserves of the commander il
! chief in the east and of Field Mar.
| shall Prince Leopold of Bavaria hat
proceeded to the relief of our allies
| front, violent Russian attack wa!
delivered against Woyrsch's arm,
group (north of the Pripet marshes
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to it These hattalions were often at
tached to the regiments as ughtfng pat
talions. Regiments that had not suf-
fered at all sometimes contained five or
six battalions instead Of three; where
as the strengths of others were often
yer ylow.
What was wanted was an even dis
tribution and this was uncommonry dir
ficult on account of the many nationali-
ties among the Austro-H Hungarian troops.
National distinctions among the men
were also maintained.
What was still more grave was the
very inadequate training of the march
battalions. They only served to swell
our losses in prisoners
We had to take a hand In the train
ing of these march battalons, and we
did We thereby discovered much good
and useful material in the ranks. but
the officers, who were then still under
the control of the Austro-Hungarian com
mand, were of poor quality and not
| trained to that strict sense of duty which
distinguishes our German officers.
| The great peril to Germany and Aus
tria in the east led Ludendorff back into
the power he had lost as the result of the
intrigue to make Hindenburg chancellor
and himself chief of staff and the con
sequent anger of the Kaiser's inner cir
| Gle He bluntly tells how critical was the
situation in Russia, with no possibility
of bringing help from other hard pressed
fronts Once given the power to use
his own methods with both Germans and
Austrians, however. he established new
and strong lines and brought the Rus
SLAMS almost to standstill
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The Italian army now started a
counter offensive in the Tyrol. Tho
face of the war had changed complete
ly. Not much later the opening of the
Somme battle and Rumania's declara-
ton of war was to make our position
still more unfavorable.
HAD TOO FEW TROOPS
Thanks to the failure Of the Aus
TRAN defense. the Russian offensive
at Lutsk made rapid progress. and
following the railway to Kovel, soon
reached the Stochod (about 40 miles
from the starting point). The first
German reinforcements became tn
volved in the retreat. A new Ger
man front was gradually created on
the Stochod on both sides of the rail-
way. The Russians had not followe1
UP very smartly in westerly direc-
ton, although a great victory was
reckoning them. They had too few
reserves at hand to make full use of
their opportunity.
At Saturday and Kisielin, south and
west of Stochod, the beaten Aus
trian army was able to collect its
remnants 1t was obvious that the
wing of the Austrian army which had
escaped at Lutsk would have to swing
back quickly to avoid being rolled up.
Here Brusiloff was not strong enough
for really energetic pursuit
The arrival of further reserves
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4 prisoners in his first drives was more
| than 100000.
| In what straits he put the German
| and Austrian commands on the eastern
| front is abundantly witnessed by Luz
dendorff. When a front has to be
stripped so that only batta1ions and
single batteries are left in reserve at
vital points the situation is indeed
critical. Only the coming of the better
| trained German troops to stiffen the
Austrians and plug the holes, combined
with the lack of roads and railroads to
\ bring UP supplies and reinforcements
| to the Russians after the holes had
been made, prevented the infliction Of
disaster that might have taken the
| entire German line back to its own
| frontier
This movement of Bruslloff's was ex-
I eremely dangerous to the enemy
armies stretching to the Gulf of Riga
In front of Kovel and in eastern
Galicia he was nearer the vital coal
and industrial regions of Silesa and
Poser than were the Germans troops
in the north. Moreover, the main sup
ply lines of the Austrians. especially
| south of the Dniester. lay parallel to
the front on which he was advancing
and each good gain meant the cril :
ping of the Austrians so much. Were
he able to cut in south of Lemberg and
stop the main passes through the Car
pathians the Austrians would have
been routed worse tnan they were at
the beginning 81 the war and any that
got away would have had to retreat
across the lines of communication OF
the Germans.
BY what strong measures linden
burg and Ludendorff averted this peril
is the subject of tomorrow's article.
They were never again free from the
peril of Brusiloff, however, until the
bolsheviki doctrines rotted the Rus
sian army to the core To the end
this great soldier fought to keep Rus
STA to her task. and his loyalty cost
him Imprisonment and death at the
hands of the Reds.
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Central Allies Escaped
By Close Mar 1916
German Lines Trimmed Dangerously to Save Austrians
Excellent Effect of Cermanys Troops On
Austrians Saved Them From Ruin
By GEN. ERICH v ON LUDENDoRFF

1916 Russian offensive against the
Lusk at Tarnopol Immediately OF
began than zoe miles the southern end Oh
the Russian battle hne)
had decisive
In
General Bothmer who had taken
of General
places complete
penetrated into the
wnoe eastern o
n dire jeopardy
southwark march Field Marshal
responded
the situation Our G. G. made heavy demands
The
gradually broke off the Italian offensive
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Ous of Russias humiliation of 1915
came a great military genius, who for
time promised to upset all the Ger
man calculations and bring the war to
an early end He was Brusiloff. What
he could have done had it not been for
the plumbers of other Russians is am
ply shown by Ludendorffs account of
his achievements on the southern Rus
sian battlefield.
Dismissal of Grand Duke Nicholas
from command the year before had
been the consequence of popular anger
levelled at the conduct of the war by
the imperial favorites. The grand duke
was the scapegoat, for the real authors
of Russia's disasters had been the
Czarina and her German cabal His
fall, however. led to the promotion or
General Alexieff and others whose
loyalty to Russia could not be doubted;
and the man put in charge OF the
southern front was Brusiloff, who had
won his right to the manner in which
he had helped defeat the Austrians
early in the war and the skill with
which he had brought his troops out of
the trap prepared for them by Macken-
sen.
Brusiloff spent the winter of 1855
training his army on modern lines. lie
learned the lesson of artillery drumfire
from the west, taught his infantry to
attack in open order rather than the
close formations that had cost Russia
| so many scores of thousands, and re-
organized his system of communities
tions so that the army could be prop
| erly supplied.
So in June he gave the Austrians a
| taste of what the warfare in the west
| had been like. His artillery drumfire
was something that the eastern front
| had not known before except on a
limited scale. The Austrians crumpled
| UP under it and he broke through their
| lines both south of the Pripet marshes
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THREE

At the funeral Of Grand Prince vi in
Toxic recently, six huge papier maehe
horses, representing the favor.te steeds
kept by the prince. followed the cor
tege. In the photographs these monsTous
white creatures. with outstanding cars
tower almost 20 the tops Of the telegraph
poles.
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DANGEROUS PLIGHT IN NORTH

DANGEROUS PLIGHT In NORlu
At that time we were anticipating
an attack at Smorgen GOO miles south
of Riga) or, as now seemed more prob
able, on the old battlefields OF
March, and at Riga. At these points
the Russians were still in very great
strength. In spite of this we denuded
our front to the utmost to help the
armies in the south.
We even had battalions to serve as
reserves for our long lines. | formed
these battalions from men at recruit
depots, although / realized that II the
Russians had really great success
at any point these units would be but
a drop of water on hot stone.
In the first place, the Russian forces
on our front had not been notlceaoly
reduced. They had to decide whether
they would really attack US, or roiloW
up and consolidate their successes IN
the south OF course they realized
that we and Austria Hungary would
send achievements. They meant ia
obtain a decision on the Austrian front
but had such large reserves at their
disposal that they could attack us IN
force as well, and thereby prevent us
from sending further help to the south
While the Germans and AustrianS
were concentrating round the LutsS
Cahpathians, and in the second nall
| Of June making local attacks nearly
everywhere, the Russians rushed up re-
serves to the points whore they hao
broken through and brought the Ger
man local efforts to a standstill oS
counter attacks.
GREAT RUSSIAN ATTACK
| IN the middle of July. after severe
| hehting, in which the Austrian troops
! had again shown only slight resistint
power, they prevented the Germans
| from developing their initial successes
! in the Lutsk salient. The enem'
| gained still more ground south OF I'M
| Dniester in the direction of the Car
| pathians 400 a.
| while all this was taking place
the two main points of attack, the Rus
slams embarked on violent onsiaugn
an the front of the commandments nie1 II
the east, between Lakes Narotch am
vjschniev and at -Smorgon, on the arm
! group of Field Marshal Prince Leopoi'
of Bavaria, northeast and south OF pa
"a noyici. and on Won Linsingen arm All,
eroup in the bend of the Styr TIM
Vas front of more than $50 miles iron
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and about 100 miles from the Pripet
battlefeld) on June 10. 1t collapsed
completely after extraordinarily severe
fighting. The army group and General
Won Woyrsch were compelled to throw
in all their reserves.
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
HUGHES OUTLINES
RED|SM ANT|DOTE
Former Justice Urges Machinery
to Stop interruption of
Public Service.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15.-Machinery
for industrial justice which would
prevent the interruption Of services
essential to the community, was i'd
vocated by Charles K. Hughes, in an
address on "The Antidote for Bolshe-
vism." at the Worlds Christian Citi-
zenship Conference.
Referring to public servants trans
portation and basic industries, he
said:
III the community provided just
means for the settlement OF COM
plants and for the redress OF wrong
which might be suffered by those en-
gagged in these essential activities, we
should have a right to prevent con-
certed attempt, that is through any
sort OF combination, to hold up The
community and enforce demands ua-
der threat OF widespread suffer ng
and want"
For Industrial activity outside the
essential services he urged co lectivs
bargaining with decisions binding IN
law.
with the apostles of violente
silenced, he said, "the schemes of
meters to disorder and revolution
frustrated, law and order preserved,
on the part Of public servants. with
provision for the peaceful and just
settlement Of industrial dispu -es shds
making possible effective measures
against interruption of essential ser
vices to the community. we should 80
far toward making class rule impos-
sible.
"we have made little progress iu
providing the machinery for indus
trial justice, and in this respect VIC
are still uncivilized. We are still
at the stage corresponding TO that
of trial by battle and trial by ordeal
in the early law Of procedure.
II believe in the recognition Of the
right of collective bargaining on the
part of labor through representatives
of their own choosing"
Mr.. Hughes favored sharing OF ex-
cess profits with labor. but opposed
cooperative management
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
WORLD FINANCIERS
TO FIX EXCHANGE

ROME, Nov. 15.-The world financial
situation has become so serious that
an international financial congress has
been called to sit here in the near
future TO devise means of regulation
Of exchange rates, according to n
news agency dispatch today.
Sterilization of the American gold
dollar will be taken up, the agency
said.
Present rates Of exchange are prov
ing detrimental even to such favored
nations as Spain. Swe 'en and swift
serland, the agency declared. pointing
out that exports OF all these nations
have declined greatly.
The interallied economic council
also will sit here November 81 and %
it was announced. G.. II. Roberts
British minister of reconstruction. and
the Italian Minister Schanzer and
Ferraris, will attend the conference.
according to the announcement
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
PLAN NEW COLORED
CATHOLIC Church

Plans for the erection in Wash
ington in the vicinity of St Aloysius'
church, North Capitol street, near |
street northwest, of a new Catholic
church for colored people, to De call
ed st. Francis Church are now under
way.
The new church will fill a need
which has been felt in Washingt ton
for some time, it is stated, as there
are only two Catholic churches for
colored residents in the Capital. TIL sse
two churches are st. Cyprian's. Thir-
teenth and c streets southeast and
st. Augustine's, Fifteenth street, near
NJ street northwest.
An entertainment in behalf of the
new church will be held Monday at 5
o'clock in Gonzaga Hall, AZ l street
northwest. Moving pictures, lectures
and music are among the features ar
ranged for the affair.
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
WETS' WILLHCHT
IN SUPREME COURT
Anti Prohibition Forces Lose
In -Four Injunction
Suits.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Wet forces
were preparing today to carry their
fight against the Volstead prohibition
enforcement law to the United States
Supreme Court, following the UPHOLD
ing of the act in a decision yesterday
handed down by Federal Judge Hand
In two Injunction suits.
Two other injunctions cases were
lost to "the vets" when Federal Judge
John c. Knox concurred in Judge
Hands opinion later In the afternoon
in similar cases being heard before
him and Federal Judge John q. Rose,
of Maryland, sitting in New York, dis
missed an application for injunction
against the internal revenue collector
of Maryland to release quantities OF
whiskey held there in bond
The cases heard were Dryfoos
Plimb & Co. for an Injunction TO Sc
sure release for barreled spirits held
in bond; Jacob Rupert, brewer, tc
restrain the Government from en-.
forcing wartime and Volstead prohibi-
tion laws; Italian Vineyards Com
pany and Scateni. Lawson & Perell
for injunctions against officials tc
prevent their stopping sale of liquors
In the Maryland case, the Maryland
Distilling Company OF Baltimore
asked an injunction against the in
ternal revenue collector there to en-
able them to remove their liquor hold
ing from band warehouses.
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
Here Are Ten Decisions On
Liquor---Take Your Choice

NEW YORK Nov. 15-Here the opinions of ten Federal
courts on different phases of the "dry" law:
Judge Learned yesterday the const
tuionay prohibition denied
the Federal authorities from
enforcing wartime prohibition Both he and Federal Judge John
consttutonaty the proh
Judge Rose denied the Maryland Dtey Company
would permitted whikey from bond
Mayer York, has ruled that 25 beer
fall within the Intoxicating liquors.
Judge Rsse Baltimore and three
Circuit of Appeals Second district
prohibition nothing do with beverages
fact intoxicating similar decision has been
handed by the presiding judge of the United States District
Court in New Orleans. p
Providence has granted injunction
stranng authorities his district enforcing
Volstead act on the ground it unconstitutional
Louisville has further than Judge
in saying the sale of taxpaid whiskey is legal
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
SEEKS RECOGNITION
FOR NEGRO R.R. men

An amendment to the labor section
of the Esch railroad bill was present
ed today By Congressman Madden of
Illinois, requiring recognition by rail-
road unions of colored railroad work
ers through membership in such
unions and consi, Grafton for the col
ored workers in collective bargaining
for better wage and labor conditions.
Collective bargains for better wage
and labor conditions threw the House
into a bitter racial debate when con-
sideration was renewed this morning
by the House of the railroad bill.
Madden claimed that equality for all
citizens, guaranteed by the laws Of the
land, justified his proposed amend
ment to the bill. He asserted it was
a farce to claim such equality existed
when colored workers were denied
membership in unions composed of
their white fellow workers. 1T ap-
pears that this equality exists only
when these native American citizens
are called on to defend with rife and
with their lives their country's honor
and flag" said Madden, bitterly. The
amendment was opposed by Represen-
tatives OF organized labor and by the
Southern members, who argued the
colored workers were free to form
their own organizations.