Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-11-20
United States Men in Triumph
Enter AISaCe.
HINDENBURG LEADS RETREAT
Yankees Begin March to Occupy the
Principal Cities of AIsace and Lor-
raine, Metz and Strassburq-
Foch to Follow.

| 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. Important military and
| administrative questions concerning
| Alsace and Lorraine were discussed.
The government intends to appoint
two governors with headquarters at
Metz and Strasshurg 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 Calmar.
Aisace-Lorraine Excited.
| Geneva, Nov. 15.-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 a huge scale are be-
! ing prepared for the allied troops UNI
der the noses of the German officials.
There also is JOY in the Rhine towns
| because of cessation of allied air
raids.
Hindenburg Leads Retreat.
London, Nov 15.-Field Marshal Won
Hindenbur, remains at the head of the
supreme German army command, ac-
cording to 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.
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. | expect
the command, staffs, officers, noncOm-
missioned officers and men to continue
to do their duty. This is to be made
known to all the troops"
Wireless Message From Foch.
London, Nov. ia wireless mes
sage has been sent to the German high
command warning that pillaging in
violation of the armistice must be stop
ped. 1t reads
From Marshal Foch to the German
High Command-Informat has been
received by the allied high command
that at different points, especially in
Belgium and more particularly i'll the
Brussels region, the German troops
are committing acts of violence
against the inhabitants and acts of
destruction and pillage which are
clearly contrary to the conditions of
the armiStice.
1.-THE allied command expects that
the German high command will, with
out delay, take measures necessary to
stop these violations of the convention
which has been signed. If the acts
do not cease within a very short period
the allied command will be obliged to
take steps to put an end to them"
Revolt Spreads in East Prussia.
Basel, Nov. 15.-The revolutionary
movement is spreading strongly in
East Prussia. A semi-official dispatch
from Berlin reports that Koenigsberg,
Allenstein, Intersberg, Gumbinnen and
Loatzen are in the hands of the revo-
lutionists. Gov. Won Batocld of Posen,
former German food minister, has put
himself at the disposal of the revolu-
tioniStS.
The revolutionary governments at
Mannheim, Rastatt and Heidelberg
have summoned the grand duke of Ba-
den to abdicate.
Germans Are Moving North Rapidly
With the American Army in France,
Nov 15-The Germans opposite the
First American army north and north
east of Verdun are reported to be-
moving northward rapidly. Prepare
| lions begun by the enemy several days
ago to withdraw in force now are be-
coming effective Great railroad &C
tivity is reported at Metz and other
railroad functions.
Yanks Occupy Briey
Paris. Nov. Is. The Americans
have occupied Briey. The city is the
center of the famous iron basin of that
name 1t is % miles northeast of ver-
dun, II miles northwest of Metz and
only three miles from the German
frontier. Briey is about Is miles from
the line established at the end of hos
| tilities.
Pershing Decorates Foch.
Senlis, Nov. 15.-Gen. John J. Perish
Ing, commander of the American forces
in France, conferred upon Marshal
Foch, the commander in chief OF the
! allied armies the American Distin-