Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-11-22
YANKEE TROOPS
ENTER GERMANY
American Troops in Triumph
March Into AIsace on Way to
Metz and Strassburg.
RETREAT BY HINDENBURG
Marshal Foch, Commander in Chief of
Allied Armies, Will Make Trium-
phant Entry Into Cities on
Sunday.

Paris, Nov. 16.-American troops
have crossed the German frontier to-
ward 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-
dinary meeting Thursday, the Matin
announced. Important military and
administrative questions concerning
Alsace and Lorraine were discussed.
The government intends to appoint
two governors with headquarters at
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 ap-
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 Calmar.
Geneva, Nov. 16.-The greatest en-
thusiasm 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 huge scale are be-
ing prepared for the allied troops un-
der the noses of the German officials.
There also 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 German wireless message
received here, which gives the text OF
message he has sent to army com.
manders ordering them tc lead their
troops home in order and discipline.
London, Nov. 16.-A wireless mes
sage has been sent to the German higt
command warning that pillaging iI
violation of the armistice must be stop
ped. 1t reads:
From Marshal Foch to the German
High Command-Informatio has beer
received by the allied high command
that at different points, especially il
Belgium and more particularly in the
| Brussels region, the German troop.
are committing acts of violence
against the inhabitants and acts o
destruction and pillage which ar,
clearly contrary to the conditions o
the armistice.
'The allied command expects tha
the German high command will, with
out delay, take measures necessary +
stop these violations of the convention
which has been signed. If the act
do not cease within very short perio'
the allied command will be obliged t
take steps to put an end to them"
Amsterdam, Nov. 16. = German
troops are in full revolt at ANTWERP
and Brussels. A hundred officer
have been killed in mutinies. Soviet
have been established at both places
Ninety persons have been killed o
injured in street fighting ut Brussels
the Belgian capital, according to a
announcement made here.
Paris, Nov. 16.-More than 2.53
American prisoners in German camp
were released Immediately by the sigr
ing of the German armistice, accord
ing to the latest figures prepared b
the American Red Cross in Switzel
land.
This number includes all the Amer
cans captured to November 1. 1t
estimated that only a few hundre
more Americans were captured afte
that date.
OF the total number of prisoners t
be released 2,3S0 are army men, IL ar
from the navy and 40 are civilians. 1
the camps were 241 army officers.