The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-01-08
RUSH POILUS
TO ENFORCE
PREPARATION
Scenes of War Are
Enacted; Essen
Will Be the First
Place Seized

BERLIN. Jan. 8. - Fifteen
hundred fresh French troops
arrived nj Dusseldorf Sunday
and demanded accommodations.
the mayor Of the city notified
the government today.
Three hundred automobiles
were commandeered by the
troops. Two schools and part
of the bureau OF finance were
demanded ~ quarters for 800
officers. the mayor reported.
The town n In a state Of ex-
element.
Tank and cavalry patrolIed
the streets.
German officials believe troops
will be sent forward 10 Essen
Immediately.
COBI.FNZ, Jan 3. French
troops were on the march today
along the Rhine.
Engineers and q detachment Of
railway workers have gone TO
Essen. first city 10 BE- seized as
France takes steps to enforce
r~parnfions payments.
Two regiments. one Of artfl-
Iery. one Of infantry. have boon
ordered forward from Epina.
Troops are quietly concentrating
NJ Dusseldorf In small attachments
Fast tanks and armored cars will
form the advance guard. II Is report
"a. whom actual invasion OF the RUIN
starts.
All that was needed 10 put in mo
ton the horizon blue machinery o,
war which France has drilled and
kept 80 long thruout the Rhineland
was word from Paris that the repa
rations commission had formal,
found Germany in default.
Infantry. II was believed. Their
would be rushed TO Essen to support
the engineers and railway detach
nents and from that center French
troops would spread thru the RUIN
valley.
For all this businesslilte attitude
and the pulse OF war drums along
the Rhine border. IL was believed
France would proceed cautiousl,
and that actual invasion cannot ye,
be said 10 have begun.
France wants TO learn more oil
intention regarding hel
troops and about what Britain il
going 10 do next. before taking ir
revocable action.
one thousand picked American
and 100 officers stationed
here want to remain.
Tho French troops In the vicin-
ity were ordered TO remain in
quarters Co prevent clashes with
Inhabitants Of the occupied re-
gion. and the doughboys had to
do double duty. But with pay
running over 100000 marks
year. and a pride I'm their par
ticipation In the latest European
war game. the Americans are
keen for staying ON. Pessimists
In the ranks figure they'll be
homeward bound In month,
however.
Both French and Germans wan,
the Yanks here. The French feel
with Foch, that as long as there is
one American soldier on the Rhine,
Il gives a semblance of American
tho Germans feel the
United states troops act as n safety
valve TO prevent the French from
the Rhineland with
fresh aggression.
Up and down the Rhineland's oc.
cupied zones things had martial APP
pearance. Trains were choked with
poilus hurrying back from leave. Ar.
tillery was IN motion thru the streets
Of occupied towns and on the high.
ways. Airplanes at the hangers
we're tuning up; soldiers on patrol
iuty wore their FURNISHED blue "tin
hats. there was new snap In the
meneuvers.
Everywhere was evidence that II
the French 30 into the Ruhr. they
win do so with n rush. with all the
requirements OF war. Tanks, ar.
mored cars. airplanes. 76s. light field
pieces and engineering equipment
win be pushed into the valleys of the
Ruhr. along with the first infantry
troops.