The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 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, viii Make Trium.
plant Entry Into Cities on
Sunday

Paris. Nov. 16.-American troops
nave 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
f0incare 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 10 appoint
TWO governors with headquarters ut
Metz and StraSsburg rs 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 an
pointed. They are: George Maringer.
commissioner general of national Sc
curlty for Strassburg; Albert Tirman,
state councillor for Metz, and Henry
foulet, 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 n huge scale are be-
ing prepared for the allied troops I'M
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
Hlndenburg remains at the head of the
supreme German army command. ac-
c0rdlng TO a German wireless message
received here, which gives the text of
q message he has sent to army COM
manders ordering them 10 lead their
troops home in order and discipline
London, Nov. 16.-A 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-Informati has been
received by the allied high command
that at different points, especially in
Belgium and more particularly i'm 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"
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 2.532 |
American prisoners In German camps |
were released Immediately by the 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 Ameri-
cans captured 10 November l. 1t Is |
estimated that only a few hundred |
more Americans were captured after
that date.
OF the total number of prisoners to
be released 1850 are army men. u are
from the navy and 40 are civilians. In |
the camps were 241 army officers.