The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-10-20

After settling with ftenn~nkampf
had thoughts Of proceeding with
all our available forces over the
southern frontier against tho line OF
tho Narew uho chief northern de
Tense OF Warsaw, our TANKS being
protected by the east frontier Of
East Prussia. no aa 10 oooperat.
more effectively with the Austrian
army. In accordance with General
won conrad'a plan. ! had not yet
been informed Of the heavy rcverse-
which had becn SUSTAINED by the
Austrian army. Orders WIRE ISSUED
In conformity with this intention.
but II was already too late 10 put u
into execution.
| on September IL we were At In,
stcrburE. enjoying 10 the fun our
satisfaction over our victory and
/ splendid achievements. All the
greater was my surprise at my APP.
1 polntmcut an chief OF staff of the
Southern army. which was being
formed under General won Schubert
at BrcnIau.
In the Yves, the German advances
has ended In a retreat
The right wing Of the German
force In the West was too weak and
did not extend far enough: the with
drawnl Of the Guard r~~~rve corps
and Eleventh army corps tscnt 20
him early In September to help him
defeat Ronnenkampfl had made Itself
felt with fatal results.
OF course. this wing should have
b~cn strengthened BY corps drawn
from Lorraine and Alsaee. That was
provided In General Count von
sehlirff~n's plan. crhis criticism Is
i.veled at tho policy which kept the
crown princes army too strong and
weakened tho armies striking for
/ rarts1 Further. II WA. quite con.
trary In his plan TO let the German
forces there advance 40 far forward
against the Lunevill~ Epinal line
and be completely held mp.
That would have been the fate OF
tho entire army II. instead OF ad.
vancing thru Belgium. we had kept
our right wing south OF Longwy
! Whilst We were bleeding 20 death
before the fortronses on the vordun,
Bclfort line. our right wing would
have been attacked from Belgium
and beaten By the combined Belgian
French and English armies. At the
same time wo should have lost our
Industrial region on tho lower Rhine
Our ultimate defeat would have been
certain.
The order 20 retreat from the
Marine was issued. whether ON good
grounds or not ! have never been
able 10 ascertain.
WARNS GERMANY or
LONG WAR
IL was obvious that tho war would
now continue for a long time and
Fatheriand. The hour had come
when everything. literally every
thing. would have TO be atakcd on
the war, and the work OF enilghten
Ing our people would have to be un
dcrtaken on n large scale.
/ ] was astonished nj the optimism
found prevailing In Berlin toward
tho end Of October. 1914. There
seemed tn be no realization of this
tremendous gravity Of our situation
IL was nothing less than a fatality
In view of the numerical infcriority
OF the dual alliance and the fact that
Germany was surrounded by enc
mics. that she did not win the war
which had been forced on her. by
some overwhelming lightning stroke
and 70 lay low an enemy superior in
numbers but not in training.
FORFSAW HUGE
BRITISH ARMY
We now had to face the prospect
that In the course OF the war the
training Of the armies would become
eaualized TO "A certain extent. altho
II was reasonable to hope that the
German army would long maintain
n certain advantage over the others