The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-07-23
Those N Towns Around cobIenz
Had No Part In Trouble in
Ruhr District.
OCCUPY IS TOWNS N ALL
American Forcss In Germany Consist
81 7os ofsesrs and fe,2t9 Men,
Ceblsnx 10 hsadquartsrs
o. Yankee Army.

New York. There are still Ameri.
can troops In Germany. We had al.
must forgotten this fact until Doctor
Knapp strobe Into the days news and
vanished. Strikes. bioodshcd and ~
bciiioa followed IN rapid succession.
German government troops entered
fhe kuhr district and Foch moved
forward across the neutral zone, We
read that tho American forces In Ger
nanny. Ike the British. viii hold to
their bridgehead.
With It's center mt coblenx the
American brtdgehead forms the MILL
tary occupation district along the
c,urxe Of tho Rhine. between the Brit.
tsh 10 the north and the French to the
south. The town Of Frankfort. re-
Gently occupied by tho French. Hes In
Ger'nan territory just beyond the neu.
trial xone which rims the French
hrtdgehead. and In only ~ kiloincters
south Of American divisional head.
quarters.
Since the recent "rcd" uprislngs.
Katherine Gay. formerly attached To
an artillery division. tells the New
York Post. American-occupled terri.
tory has been surrounded by disorder.
hut the American chief of stan mt
Coblenx has kept strictly 10 his state
mcnt that he has M concern with nj,
fairs outside his Jurisdiction. Attcn-
ttan may be focused az amy moment.
however. on the district held by Amer
lean forces II German communists
rsek refuge and internment In Aneri.
cnn-occupled territory as they have
r~centiy done in British territory
aftS the failure OF their revolt In the
kuhr valley.
A. cob,sns.
The American forces In Germany to-
day consists of 100 officers and 1920
mea. inclusive of 10 officers and iT3
snen stationed at the port of Antwerp.
belgium. They occupy. all told. ~
towns, A year ago there we're some
ak divisions holding this same terri.
tory. and every little town In the
hrtsivehead carried It's quota of Amer
leans. Indeed, II often seemed ~ n
shev were more American soldiers
thnn German civilians In the hiti voun.
try. Even coblenx. city of Rhine
wines and gayety, appeared for the
moment Anericanlxesi. cohlenx to.lay
gnrrissns iess than 400 American ON.
s~rS and about 1890 men. And.rnach.
former headquarters Of the third ~.
vision. has the next largest garrison,
1Gi officers and A.Otj men.
Alosi OF ms on this side Of the wa.
ter have haxy mental picture OF
Cohienr and have. perhaps. seen a
photograph ar two NJ Ansiernach. Bu,
NJ the villages along the neutral rome,
the tiny towns that tn mest NJ our re-
turned soldiers nran "tsermans," we
have not the slightest conception.
They are alike IN size and appearance.
these hundreds of hamiets. and save
fur the fact that faumhach ~ Protes.
tant. while Its nvishhor. Ranshach. n
quarter kiioincter distant. u Catholic.
when YOU have known one Rhinslana
valley you know them all. Here the
rs,mulnlng 6.0s0 or ~n Of our men are
sfation.si--prey. without doubt. To the
wiites, Of army run,ors, marching an
Rerlln ore day. withdrawing 10 Paris
the next. but never failing tn find
rsan- imaginative tale with which Ia
season the "slum" when Chow" call
blows. We ean ind them by III. sim
nls process III allgh,ins from III. train
sf coh,enx. and. With few formaitties
Of q military nature. hopping truck"
bound for the ou,po~ts.
Within American Lines
ftattling eastward across the little
rontoon bridge which spans the Rhine
dires'tiy In front NJ the American army
headquarters at Coblenz our battered
F"rri swings again la the north under
the shadow Of Ehrrnhreltstein's high
the darkness he seeks the security Of
the village street. A goodly number Of