The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-11-14
ALLIED TROOPS NOT TO VISIT
WITH FOE
Severe Penalties Attached to Frater-
nization Between Armies Dur
ing Armistice.

France. Nov. II.-(Delayed.)-
ders announcing that the armistic'
between the Allied powers and Ger
many had been signed and giving
directions as to the future conduc
of Allied soldiers along the line wer'
sent to every corps this morning
They were transmitted to the unit!
in the front ranks. The orders fol
low:
II. You are informed that hostili
ties will cease along the whole from
at II o'clock, November II, 1918
Paris time.
g. No Allied troops will pass the
line reached by them at that hour and
date until further orders.
u 49, Division commanders will
sketch Immediately the location OF
their front line This sketch will be
returned to headquarters by the, cour-
ier bearing these orders.
"a. All communication with the
enemy, both before and after the
termination OF hostilities, is absolute
" forbidden. In case of violation of
this order. severest disciplinary
measures will be taken Immediately,
Any officer offending will be sent to
headquarters under, guard.
IS. Every emphasis will be laid OH
the fact that the arrangement is an
armistice only, and not peace.
70. There must not be the Slight
est relaxation OF vigilance. Troops
must be prepared at any moment for
further operations.
81. Special steps will be taken by
all commanders to insure strictest
discipline and that all troops be held
in readiness fully prepared for any
eventuality.
g. Division and brigade COM
Iuanders will personally COMMUNE
cate these orders to all organiza-
tons"
Signal corps wires, telephones and
runners were used in carrying the or
ders and SO well did the big machine
work that even patrol commanders
had received the orders we'll in adj
vance of the hour. Apparently the
Germans also had been equally dill
gent i'll getting the orders to the front
line. Notwithstanding the hard fight
ing they did Sunday to hold back the |
Americans, the Germans were able to |
bring the firing to an abrupt end at |
the scheduled hour.
The staff and field officers of the
American army were disposed early !
in the day to approach the hour OF II
with lessened activity. The day be-
"an with less firing and doubtless the
fighting would have ended according
to plans had there not been sharp
on the part of German
batteries. The Americans looked
upon this as wantonlv useless. 1t
vas then that orders were sent to the
battery commanders - for increased
ire.
Although there was no reason for
t, German ruthlessness was still
.ampant Sunday, stirring the Ameri-
IAN artillery in the region of Dom
sur Meusc and Mouzay to greater :
activity. Six hundred aged men and
and children were in Mouzay
when the Germans attacked it with
gas. There was only small detach-
nent of American troops there and
he town no longer was of strategi- +;
al value. However, it was made the
'hosgenc. The enemy hurled them
nto the town until every street
eeked with the gas.
Not content with this, the Germans
gain drenched the nlace with gas
asst night. even while they were .
:vacuating Stenay, few miles to the
forth. Prompt work by the Ameri-
ans saved most of the civilians from
erious consequences. r.
Poorly clad and showing plainly
vidences OF malnutrition, the inhab-
tants crowded about the Americans,
;issing their hands and hailing them
S deliverers.A They declared they
ad had no meat for six weeks. They | :
irtuaily had been prisoners OF war
or four years and were overwhelmed
With JOY when they learned that an
rmistice was probable.
The little children between 6 and
o years spoke German alternately
nth French. 1t was the first time
hey had seen Americans and they
howed Mainly their amazement