Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
RHINE TO DANUBE
NEW ALLIED FRONT.
Foch Masses Single Wave OF
Steel Across Europe While
Germans Buster
U. S. WILL DRIVE AT ChSSEL
BY the Associated Press


Paris, June 90 - Marshal Forh is
forming one front against the Germans
from the Rhine to the Danube, LIN
transigeant says it is informed
The allied commander in chief il is
added, will hcnccforth extend his com
mand over the CzpChO SlOvak. RU-
manian and Polish armies.
CobIenz. June 9O.-lBy \. Pl---The
concentration of American. British.
French and Belgian troops. begun by
order of Marshal Foch. preparatory 70
advancing further into Germany Will
be completed Saturday. when several
hundred thousand allied soldiers Will
stand ready to march toward Hcrln II
the Germans do not sign the peace
terms.
ARTILLERY and great trucks CARRYING
various kinds of war mnteria are being
moved across the Rhiu- at Cologne
Coblenz. Maycnce aud other bridge
points within the occupied area.
In the American area there was
marked activity yesterday. particularly
among the first and second divisions,
which ARE holding the hridgchcad. On
the ldst bank Of the Rhine the Third
and Fourth Divisions completed minor
details for advancing il the word comes
to go ahead
The Fourth Division. which had beer
ordered home several weeks ago anC
had turned in all its equipment. is be
ing re equipped for possible action.
Stop German Travel
The granting or permission TO Ger
mans of military age TO travel to un-
occupied Germany has been stopped by
orders of the intelligence officers. il
view of the uncertainty Of the peace
situation.
Requests by a numbcl of nineteen
and twenty year old youths attending
school in Coblcnz, who desired to take
advantage of the Corpus Christi holi-
days TO visit relatives in Germany were
denied by the third army chiefs.
Within the American area there arc
300 German officers and men assigned
to duty in connection with the o"cupa
ton. but whether these Germans arc
to be interncd or given safe conduct into
Germany has not vet been decided upon
In the event the Germans do not accept
the peace terms. Major General Harris
and other Americans in Berlin and
other parts of Germany-es estimated tC
number nearly 1000-may come TO Co
bIenz. but this has not been definitely
decided on.
Should n further advance be decided
on, the Americans will cover strip Of
sixty kilometerS in width the first few
days of the advance. proceeding north
east in the general direction of CassPl
which is the largest town the Americans
occupy. On the right the Americans
will have within their sector the mai;
line of railroad between Coblenz anC
Cassel, which they will use for supplies
= Along the railway are Limburg. Ais
T field and a few other goodly sized town
which would come under American
supervision.
Beyond the neutral zone there
considerable activity among the Ger
mans, according TO newspapers from
the unoccupied zone. These newspa
pers assert that all army material with
In the Rhenish Westphalian industrial
territory and other districts opposite tn
bridgehead has been withdrawn. in mos
cases to a distance of more than II
kilometers.
There have been some German troo
movements opposite the Americans i
the last few days. These have not bee
in great numbers. however. and th
Americans do not expect opposition
they start ahead. But they will 9
forward. prepared for real war and a
its consequences.