The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-11-21
YANKEE TROOPS
enter GERMANY
American Troops in Triumph
March Into Alsace on Way to
Metz and StrasSburg.
RETREAT BY HINDENDUUG
Marshal Foch, Commander in Chief Of
Allied Armies, viii Make Trium-
plant Entry Into Cities on
Sunday.

Paris, Nov. 16.-American troops
have crossed the German frontier
toward Metz and Strassburg.
Marshal Foch, commander in chief
of the allied armies, will make solemn
entries into Strassburg and Metz on
Sunday in the presence of President
Poincare and Premier Clemenceau.
The French cabinet held an extraOr-
binary meeting Thursday, the Matin
announced Impt rtant military and
administrative questions concerning
Alsace and Lorraine were discussed.
The government intends to appoint
two governors with headquarters Mt
Metz and Strassburg as soon as the
allies occupy the two provinces.
The cabinet considered questions
concerning the organization of Alsace-
Lorraine under French occupancy.
Three high commissioners were APP
pointed. They are George Maringer,
commissioner general of national Sc
curity for Strassburg; Albert Tirman,
state councillor for Metz, and Henry
POulet, state councillor for Colmar.
Geneva, Nov. 16--The greatest en-
thusasm prevails In Alsace-Lorraine.
Thousands of Germans are leaving
those provinces. The German authori-
ties are being hooted by the crowds,
French and American troops are ex-
pected daily.
Receptions on a huge scale are be-
ing prepared for the allied troops I'M
der the noses of the German officials.
There is Joy in the Rhine towns
because of cessation of allied air
raids
London, Nov 16.-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
a message he has sent to army com
manders ordering them to lead their
troops home in order and discipline.
London, Nov. ia wireless mes
sage has been sent to the German high
command warning that pillaging in
violation of the armistjce must be
stopped.
Amsterdam, Nov. IS. - German
troops are in full revolt at Antwerp
and Brussels. A hundred officers
have been killed in mutinies, Soviets
have been established at both places
Ninety persons have been killed or
injured In street fighting at Brussels,
the Belgian capital according TO an
announcement made here.
Paris, Nov. 16.-More than 1882
American prisoners i'll German camps
were released Immediately by the sign
ing of the German armistice, accord
Ing to the latest figures.
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 gen
eral evacuation of Poland, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen, quoting reports
from Berlin. German troops In War
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
Paris, Nov. 1S.-The naval terms
of the German and Austrian armi-
stice are being carried out rapidly
Admiral Hugh Rodman will be the
American representative at meeting
Saturday with German navy delegates
at a British port.