Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-19
SOLF ASKS ALLIES
TO MODIFY. TERMS
IMPOSED BY THEM
Begs for Lifting of Blockade
and Free Transport
OIL Rhine.
PERMISSION FOR EXPORT
OF COAL TO SCANDINAVIA
American Troops Reach Southern
Frontier of Lux
emburg.
CROSS INTO GERMANY SOON
British Army OF Occupation Steadily
Advancing Across
Belgium.
PERMISSION FOR EXPORT
OF COAL TO SCANDINAVIA
CROSS INTO GERMANY 500.
British Army OF Occupation Steadily
Advancing Across
Belgium.

LONDON, November ls.--Thc German
Foreign Minister DR. w. $. solf. In IA
note. asks the allied powers TO modify
the armistice conditions.
He requests tho following modihca-
tons:
J. Permission OF normal economic in
iercourse between the occupied terri
tories and tho rest OF Germany.
>. Free transport along the Rhine.
,. Lifting of tho blockade.
s. Permission for Germany to export
coal TO the Scandinavian countries.
:. AllayinS Of the clause concerning
delivery Of German locomotives and
wagons TO the allies.
The dispatch, SAYING merely that
clear through what channels the note
was sent. Absence OF any references to
PRESIDENT Wilson or secretary Lansing.
however, indicates Germany has at
last realized she can gain nothing in
her attempts TO bargain with tho allies
by using Washington as :. medium.
and that she has accepted Secretary
l.ansingS instructions TO address her
messages directly TO the allies.
AMERICANS IN GERMASr
WITHIN TWENTY HOURS
Americans tonight stand on the
four hours the Stars and stripes VIII
be carried across the border into Ger
inany proper.
1t was announced late this evening
ans Third Army of occupation rec
cmncnced its march at daybreak to-
DAY. advancing eastward along the
whole line and reaching the LuNem-
bur-; frontier north OF Metz.
The northwesternmost Tip OF Lor-
rainc. where that province borders on
Metz. Between Metz and that point
iies~thc strongly, fortified town OF Died
cnhofcn. sixteen miles north Of Metz.
From where the Americans stand
Monday night the shortest eastward
cui through Lorraine TO the soil Of
Uermany prorer. at the iowm ,,d. OF PERL
The LuNcmburE referred to in the
dispatch is, the southern frontier Of The
Fsns Sorasr SnSh Tse %fss n do
have 10 80 through LuxemhurG TO
reach Germany, bur can gu, through
me 1,, n9Tiherm up OF me liorpnme ran border
The British Second and Fourth Ar
mics continued their march today
Field Marshal Hais announced to-
They have reached the line Flor
cnnes -Char -Scnette River Hal"
british ADVANCING Ten
TO TWELVE MILES DAILY
Hais's announcement shows the Brit
ish armies in their rch ID the Rhine
begun at dawn yesterday. are advanc-
ing between ten and twelve miles a
The center of the ADVANCING British
armies. at Charicroi. is moving for
ward astridc the big strategic double
track railway that runs via Namur.
I.iege. Aix-la -Chapeslc and Duron.
straight 20 Cologne, on the Rhine.
The center, therefore. tonight stands
man border. where il will cross into
the Fatherland cast Of Limburg.
Charleroi. which long was German army
headquarters. in the early phases of the
war. lies n little more than fifty miles
southwest OF the Belgian fortress OF
Liegc. 1t is ia miles southwest Of
Cologna. Allowing them an advance
of from eleven to twelve miles a day.
;he troops of the British center should
reach tho Rhine within ten days, or by
Fourteen, miles to the. cast of Char
leroi lies the fortress Of Namnr. seena
Of one Of :he great battles OF tho Ger
The British right, at Florennes
stands sixty-onc miles due west of the
German frontier. while the British left
AZ Hal has eiShty-two miles to cover
10 cross into Germany.
Florenncs is ten and half miles
slightly s9n'h"as, ,,1a Of ch"rlsroi la
southwcst of Rrmssels. R ;."'' " :" "''''
~ the time hostiiitics ceased the
British stood about four miles cast nf
Mons They have advanced twenty
miles. rca ching r'lorenncS since ycSter-
day morning. or ten miles Il day. The
,roops that al the signing of the armi-
-Iicc, stood about four miles east Of
Maubcusc. have advanced twen'y-folr
miles reaching Florcnnes, 1r exactly
tw..lvc I1i;es n ~!
riW r. 'tish LEI; which on Novcr;bei.
IL. ~ i'.o tine iii ing ceased wcr., cI-
fcialfy reported in Ath. have advanced
more than twenty miles, reaching Hal.
Indications arc that the dividing
line" hetwcn the advancing British and
French armies is the Givet- China
Fcurmi ies-l.a Capellc Road. the very
road along whirh the German armisticc
commission and couriers proceeI.I 10
Fcch's headquarters and back. If this
is 50. the Hritish extreme -'Sht which
stood east OF Fourmics at the time OF
The signing OF tho armistice. has adj
vanccd fully twcn:y-siX miles. perhaps
thirty--or fifteen miles day--sinco
srsteraay morning, swinging northeast
ward to Florcnncs.