Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-19

heavy for the Polish theater of war.
In any case. we had not enough of
them. | therefore asked General Won
Conrad to requisition light transport,
and he let us have all we wanted. 1t
consisted of quite light vehicles,
drawn by small. hardy horses and
driven by peasants.
These were soon given the nick
name of Panic" transport Panic"
horses and ''Panje" wagons also dis
tinguished themselves on the western
front The origin of the name was
the habit of drivers addressing one
another as Panic" meaning sir. "
Our men also used to address them
in that way.
The military conferences at Neu
Sandec ended satisfactorily in com
plete harmony of views. A single
command was not established, for
General Won Hindenburg and / pre-
ferred to remain Independent,
Brings Austrians to TERMS,
In the course of the discussions
about the delimitation of the pros
pective lines of communication II
looked as though there would be fric-
ton. Austria Hungary has always
looked after her own interests in a
measure which is not justified by her
military achievements. She acted
rightly from her points of view. but
it was certainly regrettable that the
Berlin authorities always gave way.
They feared that Austria would make
a separate peace with the entente,
which II believed to be physical
impossibility.
However, in September, 1914, the
demarcation of the lines Of communi-
cation was made in accordance with
German requirements. and there was
no friction with the Austrian high
command. &kf
The 9th army was ready for opera
tons on September q. Army head
quarters were at Bouthea. The dispo-
sitions were; 18th army corps. due
northeast of Cracow: Guard reserve
corps, Goth army corps. 18th army
CORPS 35th reserve division, between
Kattowitz and Kreuzburg; Sth cavalry
division. Count Won Bredow's Land
wehrt division, between Kempen and
Kalisz. -
. The three last divisions formed one
unit under General Won Frommel The
Bandstrum formations guarding the
frontier were made fit for ample du-
ties in the line by being formed into
brigades and supplied with artillery
from the fortresses. -t.-
Attack by Rennenkampf.
To the east of the Vistula the ntar-
est strong German force was part of
the Sth army. near Mlawa (north of
Warsaw. Won der Goltz's Landwehr
division was bombarding Osowiec
tnortheast Of Warsaw. The rest of
the Sth army had pressed forward as
far as the line of the Niemen between
Grodno and Kovno. in order to give
the impression that the Germans in
tended to continue the offensive there.
On September 20 Rennenkampf,
who had received not inconsiderable
attacked here. and
during the following weeks forced the
Sth army back to and near Lyck, over
the frontier.
The Sth army was, Of course, under
the command of General Won linden
burg. But we were so much occupied
with our own affairs. and further,
communications became so increas-
ingly difficult, that we were unable to
exercise any control over the opera
tons of our old army. This was not
possible until November. when the 9Th
army received a separate army COM
mander and General Won Hindenburg
was relieved of the direct command OF
1T in the field The coming operations
of the 9Th arnv in no way affected
by events on the front of the sth
army.
On our right wing the situation of
our allies had considerably Improved.
The Russian pursuit across the Wisrok
was only half-hearted. The Austro-