Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-11

| On the eastern front (early in Sep
| TENDER. 1870, G HQ, attempted tlrst
! of all to convey German troops to the
Maros sector Tin eastern Hungary,
in order to give the weak Autsro-
| Hungarian defense a certain stiffen-
| ing That was our first task. Next
clear understanding had to be ar
rived at regarding the direction OF
operations against Rumania. and new
| arrangements had to be made nofth
of the Carpathians.
The deployment on the Maros was
not complete until the end of Septem-
Der A rapid advance on the part of
the Rumanians would have utterly
upset It, The Rumanian army moved
forward at a snails pace, partly be-
cause their attention had been d1-
verted by Field Marshal Won Mack
ensens great successes in his invasion
of Dohrudja, and partly because they
were waiting for the Russians to
cross the Carpathians.
S Their left wing remained between
n Orsova and Hermannstadt where
i. there was a rather stronger concen-
tration The bulk of their army was
| debouching from Kronstadt and the
y frontier mountains of MoldaVia on an
# east and west line in close touch with
g the 1[uSSldl iell .Wlhs' NlLuaNluciA ~
u has previously explained that the
q Russians had captured the mountain
II passes without firing a shot.)
1t appears to have been the inten
II ton of the Russians and Rumanian
Il to descend into the Hungarian plaiI
e on a continuous line between the Car
f. pathians and the Danube. But if thi
n were to be accomplished very stron
Russian forces would have to b
I brought through the Carpathians
~ The Rumanians were to open IN
l. Carpathian passes for the Russian
= from the rear by vigorous irruptlo
into our concentration area.
81 They did the opposite. Unaccus
toned to war on large scale, the
made no use of the chances offere
them again and again OF forcing GU
divisions up against the Dntester an
the Carpathians They advanced eH
o. traordinarily slowly and lost tim
m Every day was day gained to us.
Russians Did Not Take Chance 10
" Strike at the Open Flank.
at The Russians, too, showed no CT
m pacity. They preferred to storm II
= ridge of the Carpathians instead
making a thEust at our open tlan
Vn through Modavia. Rumania's pa
ed ticipation in the who'e campaign 10
lowed no definite plan, No CONNIE
scheme of operations had been Sc
- tied.
he (The Rumanians have charge
be that this apparent Russian stupid
~. was, indeed, treachery. They we
promised troops to support their a
vance into Hungary and to qua
* against the attacks of Mackensen
he the Dobrudia their Black sea fro
tier. Germanic intrigues in Petr
grad are declared to have upset the
ro- plans and the failure of the Russia
to keep their part of the bargain
AM TO the fatal hesitations of the r
III manians, which Ludendorff now l
'o counts.)
Its Heavy Pressure In Galicia.
md. At the end of August and the
ha : ginning of September, in East G
lieia and the Carpathians, the RI
EN- slams were putting heavy pressure
ia what was then the army group
the Archduke Charles. The res
was the gradual withdrawal OF &c
eraI Count Won Bothmer's army frt
the the Zlota l. pa behind the Narajovl
old and a further loss OF GROUND ny
Austrian troops in the Carpathia
per- .ti 49, a. rro.t,,. ,,ass a
de- on the frontier of the Bukowina
As the security of this front Y
vital necessity for any operat
against the Rumanian army IN Irs
sit sylvania, there was nothing for It
are to send at least three divisio
!, = which We're on their way from
'ihs hard oppressed western front, to TT
NJ Isylvania. to Roehm- Ermolu and