Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-09-24
Those in Towns Around Coblenz
Had No Part in Trouble in
Ruhr District.
OCCUPY SO TOWNS IN ALL
American Forces in Germany Consist
Of 769 officers and 1920 Men,
Coblenz Is Headquarters
Of Yankee Army.

New YOrk.-There are still Ameri-
can troops in Germany. We had al
most forgotten this fact until Doctor
Kapp strobe into the days news and
vanished. Strikes, blOOdshed and re-
bellion followed In rapid succession.
| German government troops entered
| the Ruhr district and Foch moved
forward across the neutral zone. We
read that the American forces In Ger
many like the British, will hold to
their bridgehead.
With Its center at COblenz the
American bifdgehead forms the mill
tary occupation district along the
course of the Rhine, between the Brit
sh to the north and the French to the
south. The town Of Frankfort, re-
Gently occupied by the French, lies in
German territory just beyond the neu-
trail zone which rims the French
hrdgehead, and Is only so kilometers
south of American divisional, head
garters.
Since the recent "red" uprisings.
katherine Gay, formerly attached to
an artillery division. tells the New
York Post. American-occupied terri
tory has been surrounded by disorder,
but the American chief of staff at
Coblenz has kept strictly to his state
ment that he has no concern with af-
fairs outside his Jurisdiction. Atten-
ton may be focused at any moment,
however, on the district held by Amer
lean forces II German communists
seek refuge and internment in Ameri-
can-occupied territory as they have
recently done In British territory
after the failure Of their revolt in the
Ruhr valley.
Al coblenx.
The American forces In Germany to-
cay consists Of 100 officers and 1920
men, Inclusive Of 10 officers and 173
men stationed at the port Of Antwerp,
Belgium. They occupy. all told, 38
towns. A year ago there were some
ok divisions holding this same terri
Tory, and every little town In the
ondgehead carried Its quota of Amer.
leans. Indeed. 1t often seemed as II
mere were more American soldiers
nan German civilians in the hill coun-
n.y. Even Coblenz, city Of Rhine
vines and gayety, appeared for the
moment Americanized. Coblenz today
arrisons less than 400 American off,
GERS and about 1906 men. Andernacl,,
iormer headquarters OF the third d.
VISION, has the next largest garrison,
wi officers and 4.O48 men.
Most of us on this side of the wa
pr nave hazy mental picture Of
oooienz and have, perhaps, seen n
photograph or two OF Andernach. But
VI =. The villages along the neutral zone.
me tiny towns that to most Of our re-
turned soldiers mean Germany" we
Il, not the slightest conception.
,"ey are Mike in size and appearance;
.hese hundreds OF hamlets. and save
ior The fnct that Pnumbnch In Protcs-
aht' while Its neighbor. Ransbach, n
quaf'er kilometer distant, Is Catholic,
Nhen you have known one Rhineland
wiley you know them all. Here the
'e'nnining 0,000 or so OF our men are
1'auoned-prey. without doubt, to the
WIDEST OF army rumors. marching on
perrin one day. withdrawing to Paris
ue next, but never failing to find
'o'pe imaginative tale with which to
~ '.ason the "slum' when "chow" call
' We can find them by the sim.
p.e process Of alighting from the train
!" oohlenz. and. with few formalitles
w. y, military nature. hopping truck
''uhd FOR the outposts.
Within American Lines
nttling eastward across the little
s s,n bridge which spans the Rhine
ss'ec''y in front Of the American army
r,au'oarters at Coblenz, our battered
~. o'" swings again to the north under
,h e shadow Of Ehrenbreltsteln's high
,h NY darkness he seeks the security OF
''''' ''''age street. A goodly number Of