River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-11-28

the great avenue toward the Arc de
Triomph, thousands ran after it. All
Paris seemed to be rumbling with a
mighty noise and over the mighty
noise sounded, clear and strong, "Viye
Pershing!"
Troops in England First Home.
London.-The first American troops
to depart homeward as a result Of the
signing Of the armistice will be $4,000
men stationed in England. The Amer
lean army expects to start the first
shipload of these soldiers homeward
within a few days, and to have all the
men on their way back to the United
States ten days later.
The plans for clearing England Of
American troops are incomplete, but it
is desired to remove these men imme-
| diately, as some shipping is available
for this purpose. Most Of the $4,000
men are helping the British air force.
The American hospital units will be
| left in England until 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
will be left long in England, as it is
thought that the hospitals in France
can care for future needs.
German Navy Surrendered.
London.-There has just been seen
the greatest naval surrender which the
world has ever witnessed.
A 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 to their destination.
A Berlin telegram received in AM
sterdam gives this list of the vessels
comprising the best Of the German
navy that were to be handed over:
BattIeships-Kaiser, Kaiserin, KO-
mig Albrecht, Kronprinz Wilhelm,
Prinz Regent Luitpold. Markgraf,
Grosser Kurfurst, Bayern, Konig
Friedrich der Crosse.
Battle cruisers-Hindenbur Derf-
fiinger, Seidlitz, Moltke, Won der Tam.
Light cruisers-Bremen, Drummer,
Frankfurt, Kolin, Dresden, Emden.
Germany has been stripped of at
| least half of the fleet of dreadnaughts
which it had in commission or building
when war began, and Of practically all
of it's battle cruisers.
Yanks in TriumphaI March.
| With the American Army of Occupa-
| tiOn.-The American army of Occupa-
ton, which is moving forward steadily
over the territory evacuated by 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 heart Of the Lothringian
iron fields, they passed under trium-
phal arches that had been hurriedly
erected by the people of the town, and
the streets through which they passed
were bedecked with flags. G. one
arch through which the Americans
passed was a homemade American
| flag four feet in length, flanked by 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
| 4Io off nA11
and correspondents, who were invited
to become the mayors guests. Won
en-, children and aged men crowded
about the soldiers, embracing them
and presenting them with flowers.
| Similar scenes were enacted as the
Americans reached Virton, Longwy,
Audun, La Roman and other towns
evacuated 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 FIutter over British.
With the British Armies.
able flags f1uttered over the heads Of
the british troops as they moved for
ward and started on their march to
the Rhine. The cavalrymen had their
own guidons and some Of them rode
with French and Belgian flags sticking
out of their boots and fastened to their
brides. The gunners had flags ON
their limbers and the axles of their
wagons; their steel traces were pol
ished brightly, as though for mill
tary tournament, and their steel he'll
NETS were shining. They had spent
many hours in "spit and polish" since
the day of the armistice, SO they should
look well on the road to the Rhine.