Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-24
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A withdrawal of the last contingent of he German army from FrenSh soil. AIid, incidentally, 1 .tVe the com mander of this unit the first tnfgrn3a- tion he had receiyed~Of the abdi4atioa oI the kaiser; The pleasure that it gave ma to tell him that the hofsa ee ne HoAenzellern had been ovelfafoMn by allied arms W85 equaled 0niV by his sorrow at hearing it..
 Just at it crossed the French from tier into Belgium at five minutes to f2 o'clock noon, today. 1 came upon the last rear guard of the once great Ger man army machine. All this morpins had been trailing he American dou&hbQys as they proceeded forward OH their second days march. enTer- ing LonguyOn from IongWy. The Americans were in LOnouyon in force when l passed through that placeA a.d toe, they were well on the ro8i . hongHsy When I reached the latter phase was surprised to learn that our advance guard had not yet en- tered t. Despite this, however, I con ti1sued on through the white road that winds among giant trees
 At a rise in the road could see, far ahead, villages of considerable size and here and there ill them groups ef natives. Then, quite suddenly, there appeared before ne, down in little valley, detachment of marching mon. who #eariiy, were making an ascent of 9 hill They carried rifles, and at first l third they were the ad- vance guard Of the American Third Army.
 Quickly l saw my mistilze. They Were Germans, and there were 30 Of them, by the count They were march ing in square formation and going for ward a8 rapidly as they could. Ma tiFas in the village through which they were passing seemed to take scarcely any notice of them.
 l stopped my automobile to find out where ] was. Not 10 feet away from my radiator was a high post that indi- cated the border between France and Belgium.
 An then the marching men below me stood out clearly in view, and l kneW that these men, constituting ecfaggy b9nc. Was the last unit of the once powerful Hun aruly quitting EEeneh territory foroVer-driven back to HHnland, whipped and de- fGated through territory they had violated .fH 19f4
 Iiiot0rea forward and in a short while 1 overlook them aud spoke to the soldiers thenselves. None of them in the rear Of the line spoke English, Be5 quickly the captain Of the unit became aware that something unusual Hes oaeuFa3na. in tbe raar, and dama back. It developed d-thaI he spoke Eng fish perfectly and he admitted that ne was tl5a last fthe Huns to leave 1ona#v, from which place he had started at 4l o'clock this morning.
 He explained to Hle that it was his Gu1y jo remain behind to see to t that III tl3a German guns and war mate- riets aE2cta3 rom them by the terms of the aHI0iatiea be left behind That lsa had done the job well was appar- ent t0 me as all along the road-for the preceding three miles l had seen |. ;sHee.t Iua of H00 guns all 4long the roadside and in every village alleyway
 Dpi# wagons At one place I had obselged ] great aviation field in Wffc1 were a dozen Of moer boche 
 
 Capt Ritvmeister Ihssen was the name Of the Hun commander. He told me that .he served in the German army from 1893 to 1901, when he WAS retired. He Tei0ined the colors at the outbreak of the war in 1914 and took I'D machine gun work. He SAW service in Flanders and later commanded contingent which did defensive work oo1aG hill country of the Mouse north Of Verdun.
 Capt Ihs3en smiled when l asked him # he was glad the war was over
 "Ah. yes" heireplied
 "\Ve have been fighting the whole world for four years and naturally am glad that it is all oyer.D
 He halted his men to talk with me. His command scattered immediately t8 the side of the road, where the Germans sat down and gazed curious ly at little group of villagers m the middle of the highway just across the border into Belgium These villagers had been attracted by the sight of us and of the Huns, and they came rush ing up from all directions and gath cred around us, gazing at the German soldiers, most of whom wore the iron cross,&
 I asked Capt. lhssen what he tbeueat of the going of the kaiser.
 What do YOU mean-the going of the llaiser2a he asked
 sWhy, his abdication"
 s'Whv, what abdicati0n? But he has not abdicated,' he declared.
 "0h, yes, he has abdieated and has gone to ETollagd
 Y don't believe it," he calculated.
 q assure yoQ it is official"
 "Than is foo bad" he deelared, ebaneHfully sThe German people need q dynasty to oproteot them from certain meneees from Russia
 asked hiH E he had heard of the eaBJafs Of tha German fleet at Kiel by tie re40lutioaists and he told me that he had
 arr6at affair will be. strengthened out as soon a. the. army gets home" he 6aeI5red. ,frQlh which l. inferred thst
 believes the German army will have much work to do when 1t returns