CROWN PRINCES
GREAT DEFEAT
(By Associated Press)
FRENCH FRONT, Nov. 28.—One
of the disappontments which the Ger
man Crown Prince has suffered since
the'utter defeat of his great efforts to
capture Verdun has just ben brought
to light in documents found on Ger
man prisoners. From these it ap
pears that while the French were
inflicting their smashing blow on the
German troops still menacing Ver
dun on August 20. last—when the
Crown Prince not only lost some val
uable ground but about 8,000 of his
select men were taken prisoners—the
Germans were carefully preparing an
attack on a grand scale from a point
about a mile to the east of Auberive
to the &ouain height. French activ
ity in front of the fortress of Verdun
upset these plans completely and
caused the Crown Prince to put off
for an indefinite period any attempt
to carry out an offensive movement
in this region.
Details of the projected attack, as a
result of which the German comman
der had hoped to gain possession of
an important tract of territory on the
Champagne front, show that the chief
part in the operation was to be played
by the First Bavarian Division, which
was brought up to full strength for
the purpose and had enjoyed a period
of repose and special training for the
task. It was to be supported by two
other divisions on its right and left
flanks respectively.
The Bavarian division had receiv
ed orders to prepare to furnish twelve
s ections of chosen shock troops, each
section composed of one officer and
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forty-seven men. Behind these shock
troops were to follow twelve “booty
squads” and twelve "destruction
squads,” each composed of a tempor
ary acting officer and thirty-two men.
The confidence of the Crown Prince
in the success of the intended blow
at the French was so great that he
had ordered twelve teams of six
horses each to be ready to gallop off j
with the captured French cannon,'
| while an officer and fifty men of the
! engineer corps were to stand by pre-j
pared to destroy gun positions and i
guns that could not be carried off.
It has been arranged that an ex-1
tremely dense cloud of gas should be I
‘emitted over the French infantry and
artillery positions during fifteen min
utes before the shock units advanced
to the attack. Batteries of field guns
were to be stationed in immediate
support of the shock troops. Air
planes were to fly low and participate
in the infantry work. The whole op
eration was, according to arrange- j
■ ment, to result in what was called in
J the German orders, “a summer har
vest.” It was fixed for August 16-17.
On August 16 the French troops
further east in the vicinity of Verdun
, started a movement on their own ac
I count, for on that date they opened
their artillery preparation for their
j intended attack on August 20. The
menace of the Germans holding the
i lines before Verdun became so great
I that the Crown Prince was obliged to
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send the two divisions which had
been ordered to support the Bavar-,
Ians in the attack In Champagne to!
the help of the troops at Verdun and
to fill their places by two other divi
sions which had just suffered terrific
losses in a Handers engagement and j
which were in consequence not in the
best condition for severe fighting. At
the same time even the elements were
contrary to the Germans.
Later orders show that the Ger
man commander was obliged first to
put the attack off till September 1. !
Before that date arrived he, had evi
dence in the shape of French artillery
activity and infantry raids in the
Champagne sector that a surprise
was out of the question. Finally the
French fire became so severe that
on September 10 the Crown Prince
decided to give up the idea of an of
fer We ;:i this section and began to
"ithdraw to the rear his guns, troops
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a<)(i other material which had been I,
intended to help In the reaping of an
abundant harvest of prisoners and the
gain of a considerable atrip of terri
tory.
Once more the French had been
able to Impose their will on the ene
my and to make him fight just where
and when they wanted him to do so.
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at the same time. She arrived at Ju
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