The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-06-20
ADVANCE OF
THE ALLIES
Troops Will Move Monday
Morning at Five O'clock.
Richest Part of
~roNHANv Ic Nominated
GERMANY IS DOMINATED
(BY EDWIN l.. JAMES.)
Tn the New York Times.

In the New York Times.
COBLENZ, Germany, June l8-
am able to give semi-offlclal sy-
nonsis of the military movements
to be undertaken, should the Ger
mans fail to sign y allied peace
terms.
The armistice will end at five
o'clock in the morning. At that mo-
ment the allied armies will move for
ward in an easterly direction be
tween the junction the Rhine
and Lippe Rivers on the north ana
Mannheim on the south. Orders had
been issued from Marshal Focn'
headquarters to be ready for TINS
move on the morning of the 21st.,
but a telegram received last night
put the date two days later. In other
words, under the latest plan the
movement is scheduled to start at
A. NJ, Monday should the Germans
not sign or should no further de-
| lay be ordered.
The average advance of the Allied
armies between the given northerly
and southerly limits, as the troops
moved in direction generally north
east by east, would. be for the first
stage of 100 kilometers from the
bridgeheads, or to a line apprcxima-
tely 130 miles east of the Rhine,
or roughly 100 miles beyond the
river. This movement would be
H>comp1eted in three days.
On the first day the advance for
| ces would be sent up in trucks to
the limits as laid down. On the sec
| ond day supporting forces would
| reach these limits, and on the third
day the artillery and supply move
| ments would be completed. That
| would constitute the first move.
Plans in advance of that are in the
| hands of the Allied Supreme War
Council.
This movement would more than
double the amount of German terri
tory in allied hands.
For military reasons I will not
give the exact line to be taken up
by the Allied armies at the end of
the 100-kilometers advance. Rough
1y speaking, the English advance
would be (deleted by the censor)
One has but to trade this line on
the map of Germany to see that the
Allies would take possession of the
richest part of Germany and millions
of it's inhabitants. Into British hands
would fall the great Ruhr territory,
with its important coal mines, and
industrial G ltres. Essen, Solingen,
Dusseldorf, rmen, and Elberfeld,
constituting he industrial head of
Germany Z uld come under the
Union Jack.
1t so happens that the territory in
front of the Americans would not
yield us any large cities. Ours would
be mostly wooded and agricultural
territory. We would occupy Siegen,
Glessen, with some $4,000 inhabi-
tants,) Marburg, with $4,000 and
Wetzlar.
The French advance would bring
an enormous German population
under Franch control Frankfort,
with 100000 Inhabitants, is of
course the largest city. Mannheim.
great industrial centre, Darmstadt
Aschaffenburg, Offenbach, Hanau,
Bad Nauheim, and Friedberg are
some of the other towns the French
would take over.
Looking more closely at the Am
erican effort: After an advance we
would hold front of 100 kilmetters
roughly from (de1eted) on the. south
TO (deleted) on the north The coun-
try between the Rhine and this line
has been carefully mapped, and de-
tails of what is expected of it have
been furnished to each unit.
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