Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-04
FUN To Be MIXED
WITH OUR TROOPS
WATCH ON RHINE
Winter Sports at CobIenz Are
Planned -Pershing Orders
Real Bed for Every Man, If
Boches Have to Be Ousted,
by Cyril Brown.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Pub
fishing Co.

(The New York World,)
Especial Gable Despatch to World
and Albuquerque JournaD
Coblenz. Jan. 3.-Although rig
orous Rhine winter has set In. con-
verting the Cohlenz bridgehead into
a frosty, fairyland forest, winter
sports promise to make the place a
paradise for the doughboys, who are
already enjoying the maximum of
| physical comfort. ON his recent Wis
| it, Gen. Pershing personally ordered
| that all needless work be cut out of
the routine duties and that every
, thing possible be done for the com
! fort of the boys.
| "a bed for every doughboy, even
! if some of the Roches have to be
| turned out of theirs" he said in eff
! feet. OF course no German women
or children have fallen under this
order. nor was it so intended, but
able bodied Teutons must make room
| for the doughbovs wherever the bed
supply in the occupied area is not
enough to 30 round for the bows and
for all of the visiting LIST Division. Mt
| the American outpost nearest to Ber-
| lin.
jealous of Their Record.
The World correspondent found the
| boys of the garrison almost palatiallv
chartered in the fifteenth century
castle of the town. The sentry near
est Berlin as write, is Private Me-
ran of Brooklyn, who saws he doaa
not expect to see home before next
summer, but he will have NJ lick
| coming il all Germany should be as
fine as this garrison.
Everybody in the LIST Division Is
| stirred over the report of en- article
| in Everyhody's Magazine Giv'rg thu
marines the credit for taking Can
| tipny 1t looks as if friendly but
warm debate was in prospect over
that matter. The 1st Division ,iaims
/ that it took Cantigny, unaided. and 1t
wants all the glory due to it for that
performance.
Discipline Is Kept Up.
Although the district is peaceful
! enough, there has been little relava :
ton of wartime discipline on the
| American front in GERMANY I.nng
practice hikes are taken to Keep the
boys hard for the intensive patrplling
along the neutral boundary and fer
| the thorough occupation If the VIII
| laccs arl hamlets along tho front.
we must keep up discipline a can
| tain evp'ained, ''sr that the hovs will
| not get lax with the notion that they
are going home soon"
! -banketed by military dry law
/ Teuton joy of life under American
occupation has vanished. Owing 20
| the drastic liouor restrictions, many
of the cafes of the place have been
| closed and others are deserted The
thirsty Teutons are dumblv swallow
Inr the fate Of the vanquished.
| But the natives are not the only
ones who are REALIZING the fact that
I "armistice is hell" French officers
who were marooned in Cohlenz last
night vainly pleaded for wine after
/ hours. When Gen. Pershings order
was explained to them they said they
thought 1t was very hard. The truth
is that it is quite joke on the French
officers to have to submit to an Amer
lean teetotal order. for Gen. Perish
| ing's reluctant proclamation was
modelled after the French regula-
| tons. which were only recently ep-
| forced against Americans and all the
/ allies 49,
| Plan a Way Round.
British and American officers at
one of the posts have found a way of
/ meeting the law. through the creation
| of an "Officers' Club" and some of
| the proprietors of the German hotels
have adopted the American backdoor
| device. While obeying the dry regu-
lations in the nuhlic rooms they serve
their guests freely in the bedrooms
and other private rooms.
One feature of the new regime in
Coblenz is the sharp enforcement OF
the imprinted regulation arains' LAY
ernizing with the inhabitants. All 50.
cial intercourse is forbidden between
the soldiers and the people. The boys
must net talk with German men Of