The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-19
ALLIES CONTINUE
ADVANCE-T0 The
Rhine SECTIONS
French Enter st. Louis, OppO-
site Basel, Switzerland.
Americans Wait for Orders on
the Advance.
MATERIAL FOUND EVERYWHERE
Hospital, Full of Wounded, Is
Left at VirtOn.
Many AirpIanes, Damaged, Re-
main in AirdrOmes.

Paris. Nov 19.-French advance
guards entered the town of st. Louis,
opposite Basel. Switzerland.
Yanks Arc Resting.
With the Americans Advancing To-
ward the Rhine. Nov. 19.-Upon the
general line attained in its second
Us march the third army was rest
ing today. awaiting further orders.
The interval was being spent in or
ganizing lines of supply line and COM
munication and bringing up supplies
for the next phase. of the advance,
which will begin shortly.
Engineers are rebuilding miles upon
miles of railway. Six thousand were
working today on a three mile stretch
toward Metz.
columns of trucks, miles long, were
hurrying up reserves. supplies and
new divisions were moving IN Dehlnu
the advance units, occupying the back
areas Other divisions were main
tanning the lines occupied before
the armistice, while still others were
moving back into rest areas.
In every town the Americans are
finding German material. At Nlrton,
in Belgium, the Germans left hos
pital full of wounded. including some
Americans. A German staff was still
in charge. The city was undamaged,
shops were open and well stocked.
The Americans. who entered on the
heels of the Germans, were enthusl-
fstically welcomed.
At Tellancourt. an airdrome was
found full of damage planes. Some
of them had been malic.ously injured.
Enter Metz Today.
Do
tain leading and Generals Castelnau
and Mangin following. the. French will
enter Metz today. The city has. been
gaily decorated In preparation for the
event.
Next Sunday or Monday, Marshal
Foch and Generals Petain. Castelnau
and Gouraud will enter Strassburg.
French at Rhine.
Paris. Nov. 19.-French troops
rcLc. the neishborhood of the
Rhine on a front of about thirty miles,
from the Swiss frontier northward. it
was officially announced today.
Large Quantities of war materials
nd allied prisoners have fallen into
our hands" the communis lie said.
IN Belgium, we passed the railroad
from Beaurain to Florenville.
I'VE entered Saarbourg, Dieuze and
Morhange. and reached the proximity
of the Rhine between a point north of
Neu Briesach and the Swiss frontier.
(Neu Briesach is mile and a half
west OF the Rhine and is about thirty
miles north of the junction of the
French. German and Swiss frontiers.)
Half Way to Antwerp.
Havre. Nov. 19.-"We have reached
the line from Baesrode to Alost," the
Belgian war office announced today.
Our cavalry has advanced from
Brussels toward Malines midway be-
tween Brussels and Antwerp).
Munitions depots were exploded at
three rail stations in Brussels, setting
fire to the station buildings"
Third Army Ahead.
With the Americans Advancing To-
word the Rhine, Nov. 19.-The Ameri-
can Third army advancing with ma
chine-like precision, had completed the
second lap of its march toward the
Rhine Monday night. 1t halted on a
general line fifteen kilometers (more
than nine miles) ahead of the positions
occupied Sunday night.
So far as can be observed, the Ger
mans are carrying out the terms of the
arm.stice in good faith. Today they
surrendered millions of dollars worth
of materials. guns and ammunition. At
several places they turned huge am
munition dumps over intact. At Bou-
ligny. several hundred carloads of
lumber. cement and steel rails and
twenty-five guns fell into the hands of
the Americans.
Material Is Surrendered.
l rode more than sixty miles paral-
lei to the line of the advance found
a network of light railways all in
good working condition and with
bridges intact. At Longwy, hundreds
of cars. scores of locomotives, $500
machine guns, thousands of rifles and
various other materials were surren-
dered. At many other points there
were similar scenes.
Most of the towns are undamaged.
Or only slightly so. The German with
drawal continues far ahead of the
Americans, only few enemy officers
remaining to surrender munitions,
guns and supplies.
These then retired under a white
flag.
The advancing Americans entered
scores of inhabited towns, all of which
were beflaSged with hastily construct
ed decorations and homemade Ameri-
can flags.
People Erect Arches
Several communities erected tri-
umpnal arches. under which the
americans marched.
When the columns passed thru Con-
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