The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-27
LAST FOE QUITS
DUCHY GLADLY
Tell American Correspondents
Their Only Desire Is for
Peace and Home.
RETREAT IN GOOD ORDER
Leave Officers in Civilian
RETREAT IN GOOD ORDER
Leave Officers in Civilian
Clothes to Report on Condi-
tiOns in Occupied Cities.
BY RAYMOND G. CARROLL.
Special Gable Despatch TO THE Sun and the
Public Ledger.

Special Gable Despatch TO THE suS and the
Public Ledger.
Copyright. 1918; all rights reserrsd.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF Oc-
cuPATroS, Nov. 26.-Enemy camp fires
were burning high upon the opposite
billsides when we reached the Lux
emburg end OF n small bridge over the
Our River that connects the Grand
Duchy with the German town Of Das-
burg.
All day we in our automobile had
kept on the trail Of some 1000 Ger
man soldiers in northern Luxembourg
who were tangled up in a maze Of deep
ravines and winding roads and who
fell behind their schedule of depart
ure and got decidedly in the way OF
the steadily advancing French and
American troops. Easy to track their
route 1t was. for it was strewn with
aba ndoned trucks, supply wagons,
parts of rolling kitchens and occasion
ally big cannon. In many places J
found the grounds on which they had
camped sown with discarded helmets.
Told They Must Hurry.
As we drew near the German bor-
der. passing from town 10 town, the
hour of enemy departure became
nearer. ClervauX is wonderfully
picturesque town, around which radi
ate numerous we'll stocked trout
streams, and has an ancient ruined
castle and monastery and n cosmopol-
itan hotel, where we were informed the
Germans had gone UP the road toward
the border at o'clock Sunday morn
ing.
''If you would catch up with them
you must hurry" advised the Burgo-
master, and the entire corps OF hotel
employees and the male guests came
out to see our automobile start. A
winding road around the mountain
brought us down to the bridge at
Dasburg.
4 Luxemourger with US did our
talking, explaining that We were
American newspaper correspondents
in honor bound TO the American army
to advance no further. but curious 20
speak with some Of the men who were
the last to leave the neutral State OF
Luxembourg. Immediately there was
a clicking of heels and obviously we
were being saluted in the darkness.
What shall ask them" said our
escort. Inquire II they are going
home to be revolutionists," I asked.
This question was done into polite
German and back came a voice from
the blackness:
II go TO spend Christmas with my
mother, whom have not seen for two
years" Another voice In sterner tones
said:
MY wish is 10 see my wife and six
children, who have not had enough to
eat, and want TO provide for them"
We have had quite enough OF war.
We Germans are OF one mind 20 the
end and want peace was another
answer.
German Troops in Good Order.
I might say that the consensus in
both Luxembourg and in Alsace-Lor-
raine, through which the German
army retired. is that the fires OF Ger
man anarchy do not lodge in the first
line troops, which withdrew to the
last man in excellent order. There
are enough of them TO police Ger
many, but only the Prussians would
act in the interest Of the Kaiser, say
observers.
German officers in civilian clothes
have been dropped off in large cities
like Luxembourg. Metz. Strasbourg
and Treves to keep their chiefs in
formed OF after armistice develop
ments, showing that the German
army organization lives in spite OF So
ciaI upheavals in Berlin and in other
large German cities. What took forty
years to build up is not destroyed in
a single night.
AS the crow flies from Dasburg'
these enemy soldiers whose voices l
heard from the obscurity OF the from
tier bridge have seventy-flve miles TO
go before they reach the River Rhine.
Only beyond the Rhine are they in
that part of Germany which is to be
free from the arranged occupation by
French, British and American troops
pending the outcome Of peace negotia-
tions.