Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-24

with Austria Hungary. When I say
those huts in Huzules I realized tina
| this nation could not know what
| was fighting for.
Puts Blame On Austria.
Austria Hungary had been yer,
negligent. AS an allied power w
should have known how to proven
| il. Had the Dual monarchy and tn
Austro- Hungarian army accomplished
even half of what could properly hav
| been expected OF them, German troop
need not have been brought in sucl
masses TO reinforce their fronts. il
| the long Tun We should have had NOR
| troons at our disposal for the western
! front
| l admit that Austria Hungary com
planned that we had failed In Franc,
| in the autumn Of 1914. and that the,
had been exposed single handed t.
Russias overwhelming numbers
In any case 1t was fatal for us tina
We %ere allied with decaying state
like Austria Hungary and Turkey \
Jew in Radon once said to one of m.
officers that he could not understand
why 50 strcng and vital body a
Germany should ally itself with
corpse, He was right.
But Germany was not to obtain an,
! vigorous battle allies. We even neg
lected TO infuse any new life into ou
| perishing allies. / only got to know
the condition of affairs in Austria
| Hungary in the course of the war.
| had never had any opportunity pre-
viously.
l was utterly amazed. Our respon
| sible authorities had realized that tn,
| Dual monarchy had become the "Sicl
| Man of Europe" but failed to draw
the correct conclusions from it. w,
should have kept faith with her ant
led. instead of binding ourselves I,
her and seconding her strong but one
sided policy.
Hurries Back to POsen
My stay in Munkacs was not of lonl
duration. At the end of January
was again in Posen in my old position
/ had had an exciting time and fount
that | had missed nothing OF import
ance.
Meanwhile, the commander in -chie
in the east had been advised by gen
eral headquarters that during the frs
| half of February three new corps anC
! the 21s. army corps could be placed
| ut his DISPOSAL for the eastern theate
of war General headquarters hat
considered that the replacement o
the 2lst corps by new corps was nee
essary, III view of the fact that it
reserves consisted of men from Alsace
Lorraine. The untrustworthines
shown by some of the troops iron
the Reichlaqd on the west front in
creased as the war went on, The
We're, therefore, generally sent to tn
east OF course, this meant that man
| loyal Alsace- Lorraine subjects had L
suffer, but it was not possible to d
justice 10 each individual On tn
eastern front the Alsace-Lorrain
troops fought excellently, and tn
21st corps even with distinction
| II had been arranged with genera
headquarters that as soon as the fou
corps were detrained they should b
concentrated for blow at the Rus
sian forces facing the Sth army. TIL
battle of the Masurian lakes ha,
shown us that a great and rapid sue
cess In battle was only to be obtaine,
when the enemy was attacked on tw
sides.
Blows From Both Flanlxs.
| We now had the possibility of car
rying out two enveloping movements
/ one from the Tilsit- Wladislzwow- al
varya direction (due east of Konigs
berg), with strong group of thre
corps, which were to be assem- BILE,
| between the Nieman and the roa'
! from lnsterburg to Gumbinnen. an,
another with the 40th reserve corp
to which the End infantry division an,
! Tho I,.r, ie,,
| between Lake Spirding and the from
i tier from the direction of Bialla
| Raigrod- and the south
! (These attacks would be about 10
miles apart from the northeastern an,
southeastern corners of East Prus
sia.)
| simultaneously. the enemy was t.
! be pinched down by frontal attack
| Both our opponents wings were weak
| We could hope to gain q lot of grount
before the enemy main forces coul,
/ get away from our frontal attack
Both our thrusting wings were to sur
round the enemy-the earlier tn
| better.
/ If we succeeded in annihilating tn
enemy, it might be possible, willis
guarding our flank against any NOV
from the Kovno- Grodno direction. t
attack the Osowiec-G rodno line Cop
posite the southeast corner of Eas
Prussia and resting on two stronj
forts), and take the Bobra crossin)
near Osowiec from the rear. Thi
presupposed that the long flanl
stretching through Wloclawek, Mlawi
and Johannesburg to Osowiec hell
firm.
Gigantic Plan" of Entente.
The measures which I took as a re
suit of this course of reasoning com
pletely upset the enemy's calcula
tons, which had become known.
| The entente hoped to win the wa
| in 1915 through Russia. While thu
grand duke intended an offensive IL