The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-22
ALLIES OCCUPY
TW0-THIRDS OF
BELGIUM LANDS
At No Point 100 Miles From
the Rhine.
All Armies Are in the Advance
AMERICANS IN LUXEMBOURG
They Passed Thru Capital City
on Thursday.
Nailed as Deliyerers by People
of Country.
AMERICANS IN LUXEMBOURG
fRv the Associated Press.)

I.uxemhurg, Nov. 21.-With Gem
ora, Pershing, the American comman-
der In chief at her side, the youthfui
grand duchess of Luxembourg from the
balcony of her palace watched the
American troops march into her cap
ital today.
T.ondon. Nov. 22.-Fully two-thfrds
of Belgium has been reoccupied Dy tne
allied armies. At no point are the
allies now more than 100 miles from
The general line of the advance. ac-
cording to the latest advices. Is as
follows:
Turnhout. Herenthals Occupied by
the Belgians): Wavre. GembiouX'
Onhaye Occupied by the Brttlsh);
Wancennes. Bastogne Occupied by the
FRENCH; Luxembourg (occu. ed by the
Americans); Saarbrucken, Petit-Pierre
Gutzelstein), Hochfelden, Obernay.
Marckolsheim, and the line OF the
Rhine from the~e to the SWISS pordet
OCCUPIED by the French).
Yanks in Advance.
With the Americans Advancing To-
ward the Rhine, Nov 21-The Ameri-
can army of occupation passed thru
the city of Luxembourg, capital or the
Grand Duchy of that name, this after
noon.
G-eat crow, of civilians, hailing the
Americans as deliverers. escorted the
doughboys thru the streets, which
were gaily decked with allied flags
the American emblem predominating.
BcIgians Pass Louvain.
Hayre, Nov. 81 (night).-The Bel
gian army has passed Louvain, the
city which was utterly destroyed by
the Germans early in the. war, 1t was
announced by the Belgian war office
tonight.
Enter Strassburg.
Paris, Nov. 22.-General Edouard
de Curieres de Castelnau who will
enter Strassburg Sunday with the
French army according to the Echo
de Paris. probably will at that time
assume a new dignity"
Paris newspapers reported earlier in the
week that three new marshais OF Frame
probably would be appointed soon and
thnt one general won d be promoted when
Strassburg was entered. Apparently ,ne
of the generals to be elevated will be Gen.
De Castelnu. General de Castelnau WIS was
Marshal Joffre and later was commando r
of the French armies in France and Bel,
GUM. He is one OF the most successful
leaders of the French army and is known
as ''the saviour of Nancy" for his bruliant
defense of that region in the first months
of the war. In 1915 he went to Greece in
connection with the Greek and Macedonia
situations. He then became commander
in-chief of the French armies In France
and Belgium and after his retirement
from that position represented France at
the allied conference in Petrograd early
in 1917. Gen: de Castelnau lost three
sons during the war and a fourth was
captured by the Germans. being repatriat-
ell last July. The general was born In
1851 and fought in the Franco -Prussian
war.
Pershing's Communique.
Washington Nov. 22.-Gen.ral
Pershing's communiq lie for Thursday
says:
Headquarters American Expedition
ary Force, Nov. 21: Continuing it's ad-
vance. the Third army reached this
evening the general line: Vichten-
Mersch- h-Schuttrange- -Rentgen Katten-
hofen. During the afternoon our
troops passed thru the city of LUX am
burg where they were welcomed a.
dehverers by the civilian population
VINO showered them with flowers and
accompanied them N their march thru
the flag decorated streets