Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-11-22
AMERICAN MISSION
TO MEET THE HUNS
Foch Sends U. S. Officers to Teu-
ton Headquarters.
U. S. kIRMEN IN COLOGNE
Yankee Flyers Land in German City
on Rhine-Hun Army Evacuating
Poland-Nava! Terms of Arm
istice Being Carried Out.

London, Nov. 16.-An American mis-
sion commanded by Major General
Rhodes left Saturday for Spa, Ger
man headquarters, Marshal Foch an
nounces in wireless message to the
German high command. The mission
consists of six officers and 10 soldiers.
| The German command was asked to
give instructions to allow the mission
| to pass.
| The wireless message reads:
From the allied high command to
| the German high command at Spa:
| American mission, consisting of six
officers and 10 soldiers in nine
| motOrcars, with General Rhodes as
chief of mission, will leave for Spa on
the morning of the 10th by the way of
La Capelle, BeaumOnte- Phillipeville,
Liege and Spa. Please give instruc-
| lions to allow the mission to pass"
| American airmen landed at Cologne
on the Rhine, Thursday, according to
a Cologne dispatch to the Copenhagen
Politiken and transmitted by the Elk
change Telegraph company.
The German army has begun a gen
eral evacuation of Poland, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen, quoting reports
| from Berlin. German troops in War.
I saw have been disarmed and arrested.
as have all German civilians in the
Polish capital.
The Berlin soldiers and workers
council has decided to dissolve the Red
guards, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen.
Captain Won Beerfeld, the leader of
the Red guards, has been dismissed
for making revolutionary plans.
Meet Navy Delegates.
Paris, Nov. 16-The naval terms
of the German and Austrian armis-
tees are being carried out rapidly. Adj
miral Hugh Rodman will be the Amer
lean representative at a meeting Sat
urday with German navy delegates at
a British port.
The French cruiser Admiral Aube left
Brest for the Firth of Forth, Scot
land, where it will be placed at the
disposal of Admiral Grasset the
French delegate to the interallied com
mission intrusted with the carrying
out of the naval conditions Of the arm
istice. Two French torpedo boats ac-
cOmpanied the cruiser.
Field Marshal Hindenburg and the
German general headquarters staff, ac-
cOrding to the Frankfort Gazette, have
arrived at WilhelmshOhe, near Cassel,
where in 1870 Emperor Napoleon was
kept prisoner after the surrender of
Sedan.
Fears Famine and Anarchy.
Berlin, Nov. 16.-The new German
government has sent message TO
President Wilson appealing to him in
order to save the German people from
perislfing by starvation and anarchy,
to send plenipOtentiaries as quickly as
possible to The Hague or some other
city.
The following message has been for
warded to Secretary Of State Lansing :
II believe | am not appealing IN
vain to the humanitarian feelings OF
the president If / ask you to submit TO
him the request that, in order to save
the German people from perishlng
from starvation and anarchy, he Will
as quickly as possible send to The
Hague or some other place plenipoten-
tiaries."
Hindenburg Leads Retreat.
London. Nov. 15.-Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg remains at the head of the
supreme German army command ac-
cording to a German wireless message
received here which gives the text OF
q message he Has sent to army COM
manders ordering them to lead their
troops home in order and discipline.
The order of the field marshal reads:
ITO all and especially the army
group under Field Marshal Won Mack
ensen lin Roumania) / remain as
hitherto the head of the supreme army
command in order to lead the troops
home in order and discipline. l expect
the command, stats, officers, noncom-
missioned officers and men to continue
to do their duty. This Is to be made
known to all the troops"
1852 Yanks Freed.
Paris. Nov. 15.-More than 1882
American prisoners In German camps
were released Immediately by tbs sign
ing of the German armistice. accord
ing to the latest figures prepared by
the American Red Cross in Switzer-
land.
This number includes all the Amerf-
cans captured TO November 1. 1t is
estimated that only few hundred
more Americans were captured after
that date.
OF the total number of prisoners TO
he released $3.50 are army men, II are
from the navy and 40 are civilians. In
the camps were 241 army officers and
2.l39 noncommissioned officers and pri-
Yates and three naval officers and nine
sailors.
X. of C. Secretary Dies.