The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-11-29
Armies of Allied Nations on Their
Triumphant March to the
Rhine.
GERMANY SURRENDERS fleet
President Wilson Prepares to Leave
for Europe to Take Part in the
Peace Conference-Ukrainia
Government Overthrow
by Anti-Bolshevists.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARp.

The triumphant march TO the Rhine
going on steadily all week. At last
these brave troops move forward real
~ with bands playing and banners
flying and ms they pass through the
cities. towns and hamlets of northern
France and Belgium the people OF
those places, released from years Of
barbarous slavery to the Huns, give
them hysterical welcome. From holes
where they had been hidden since the
summer of 1914 their national flags
are brought forth to decorate the
buildings and streets and the ruins
left by the invaders, and everywhere
homemade specimens of the Stars and
Stripes fly with the other banners
The wild JOY of the inhabitants lis
pathetic in the extreme, and especial
ly in Alsace and Lorraine, which is
occupied by the Third American army
together with the French under Gen
eral Mangin. Those lost provinces"
now regained have ever remained
loyal at heart TO France and they well
coined the Polus and the doughboys
with open arms.
For Lorraine the great demonstra.
ton took place I'm Metz, which was
entered by Mangin's army on Tuesday.
That general was injured the day be-
fore when his horse fell, but Marshal
Petain was there and. standing before
the statue Of Marshal Ney i'm the main
square, reviewed the troops. The in
habitants had overturned the German
statues in the city and made the place
gay with the allied flags and with
their own national costumes. Similar
scenes were witnessed In Strassburg
and other cities of Alsace. Near the
Swiss border the French troops first
reached the Rhine.
The American army of occupation,
commanded by General Dickman. and
about 100000 strong, marched across
the old German frontier into Lor.
raine and swung TO the nOrthward
into Luxembourg. the marines on its
right passing into Belgium. In the
grand duchy no less than elsewhere
the Yankees were enthusiastically
greeted Their advance was made al
ways with due caution, however, and
the task of moving so large an army
forward steadily and keeping up Its
supplies and communications was
performed in perfect manner.
Meanwhile the British and Belgian
armies of occupation were keeping
x..tt l,Atr Il ,.,t,,
through Belgium close on the heels of
the retiring Germans
Everywhere the victors found vast
stores Of weapons and materials
which the Huns left in accordance
with the stipulations Of the armistice,
and In general 1t was said the Ger
mans were carrying out the terms i'm
posed on them. There was pillaging
in some places. and occasionally a
storehouse was blown up. but these
Instances were comparatively infre-
quent. The worst charge against the
conquered foe related to the released
allied prisoners. Many of these,
usually sick and half starved, were
merely turned loose to make their way
to their friends as best they might.
England sent to Berlin stern pro-
test against such violations of the ar.
mistice terms.
= The allied fleets have passed through
the Dardanelles to the Black sea. and
. allied. troops have been landed IN Con-
stantinople and on the GaIlIpoIi penin-
sula. In what was Austria-H Hungary
the process q occupation also goes
On. French troops having entered