Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-11-22

signing of the annstice will be $4,000
men stationed in England The Amer
lean army expects to start the drst
shipIoad of these soldiers homeward
within few days, and to ave all the
men on their way back IT, the Uaited
States ten days later.
The plans for clearing England of
American troops are incomplete, but It
As desired to remove these men tnme-
dlStely, as some shipping is available
for this purpose. Most of the $4,000
men are helping the British air force.
The American hospital units win be
left in England until a policy for car
ing for future cases of Illness among
the Americans has been decided upon.
The belief is expressed at army
headquarters that very few Americans
viii be left long in En- land, as it is
thought that the hospitals in France
can care for future nee -
German Navy sGrrendered.
london There mas just been seen
the greatest naval surrender which the
world has ever witnessed
\ great fleet Of German battleships.
battle cruisers, and light cruisers and
destroyers left port for an unknown
destination, They were met by the
british fleet, accompanied by Ameri-
can and French representatives, and
conducted 10 their destination.
\ Berlin telegram received in Am
sterdam gives this list Of the vessels
comprising the best of the German
navy that were To he handed over
Battleships Kaiser, Kaisern. Ko-
mig Albrecht. Kronprlnz Wilhelm,
Prinz Regent Luitpold Markgraf,
Grosser Kurfurst, Bayern. Koig
Friedrich der Crosse.
Battle cruisers-IIi ndenburg, Derf-
Finger, Seiditz Moltke, Won der Tam.
Light cruisers Bremen. Drummer,
Frankfurt, Kolin. Dresden, Emden.
Germany has been stripped of at
least half of the fleet of freadnaughts
which it had in commission or building
when war began, and OF practically all
Of its battle cruisers.
Ysnks in Triumphal March.
With the American Army of Occupa-
ton The American army of occupa-
ton which is moving forward steadily
over the territory evacuated ny the
retiring Germans, Is being received
with Wild demonstrations of JOY by the
residents Of the towns which are now
being liberated after more than four
years of German rule.
When the American troops entered
Briey, the hear, of the Lothringian
iron fields. they passed under trium-
phal arches tina, had been hurriedly
erected by the people of the town. and
the streets through which they passed
were bedecked with flags On one
arch through which the Americans
passed was a homemade American
flag four feet in length thanked ~ the
French colors. The flag which had
been made by three French girls, had
eleven stars and seven red and white
stripes. At st. Leger, as the advance
units of the Americans entered the
town. the church bells were rung and
the mayor and his wife stood in front
of their home TO welcome the officers
and correspondents, who We're Invited
to become the mayors guests. Wom-
en-, children and aged men crowded
about the soldiers, embracing them
and presenting them with flowers.
Similar scenes were enacted as the
reached Virton. Longwy
Audun, La Roman and other towns
by the Germans.
Everything moves smoothly as the
American forces proceed toward the
Rhine Some 100000 men. with their
supplies, guns and ammunition, must
be moved along three main roads
from railroads that get farther behind |
each day. The job Is one that would |
tax the abilities of the quartermasters
Of any army.
Flags Flutter Over British.
With the British Armies.- Innumer-
able flags fluttered over the leads OF |
the British troops as they moved for
ward and started on their march to |
the Rhine. The cavalrymen he'd their |
own guidons and some Of them rode |
with French and Belgian flags sticking |
)ut Of their boots and fastened to their |
brides. The gunners had flags on |
heir Iimbers and the axies of their
wagons their steel traces were poll
shed brightly. as though for a mill
AIRY tournament and their steel he'll
nets were shining They bad spent
many hours in spit and polish" since
he day of the armistice, so tbeJ should
ook well on the road 10 me Rhine.
The advancing troops net thousands
If civilians who were coming home
lfter years of exile AS the soldiers
vent forward the homecoming civil.
ans halted TO wave flags at them,
It SCENE !, by the smart
less of the men who, after four years
If war, rode out. sTlick and span from
helmet to spur, on fine horses, well
ed and groomed, In sharp contrast
o the sorry-lookIng German horse
lesh.