WITH THE ARMIES OF OCCUPATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 69, 16 December 1918, Page 5

WITH THE ARMIES OF OCCUPATION

BRITISH ON THE COLOGNE

BRIDGEHEAD

PROCLAMATIONS POSTED

lly Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec December 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 11. Sir Douglas Hnig reports: "Our advanced troops have crossed the Rhine and begun the occupation of the Cologne bridgehead. We have readied a general line from Oberknhcl to Siegtlmrg, Olienthal, and Opladon."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. PROCLAMATION TO INHABITANTS. (Rec. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, December M. A proclamation by Sir Douglas Hnig has been posted throughout tho British Army zone warning the inhabitants against violence towards any member of the army, mishandling army stores, or doing damage to public works, under penalty of death or other punishment. The severest penalties will be inflicted on persons hiding German soldiers, civilians disobeying Sir Douglas Haig's orders, or failing to disclose their means of communication .with tho euemy.-t-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.

AMERICANS CROSS THE RHINE. (Rec. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, December 11. The United Press correspondent learns from Coblenz that the Americans have crossed the Rhine.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

(Rec. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 1.1. An American communique states: "We have crossed tho Rhine and occupied the Coblenz bridgehead."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. ,

ARMISTICE EXTENDED (Rec. December 15, 11.10 p.m.) Copenhagen, December 11. It is reported from Treves that the armistice has been extended until five o'clock in the morning of December 17, and will .bo renewable thereafter until the conclusion of tho preliminary peace negotiations, subject to tho Entente Powers' consent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.Reuter.

AN ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY SOUND GOVERNMENT, OR ALLIED OCCUPATION (Rec. December IG, 0.15 a.m.) Amsterdam, December U. The "Berliner Tageblatt" says that the, Entente Powers are. preparing an ultimatum to Germany, giving the country the choice of immediately establishing a Government which 'wjll really speak "for flic people- or alternatively having the country occupied by the Allied'troops.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.

ALLIED TROOPS IN VIENNA (Rec. December 15, 11:5 p.m.) Paris, December 14. Franco-Serbian troops have arrived at Vienna. French detachments have entered Budapest—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ALLIED INTERVENTION AT ODESSA TO EXPEL GERMAN-BOLSHEVIK ELEMENTS. (Rec. December 15, 5.8 p.m.) Paris, December T3. An Allied squadron is undertaking to free Sobastopol from thn Germans, who ,i\r'e co-operating with tho Bolsheviki and causing grave disorders. . The squadron is waiting in responso to a deputation from Odessa urging tho French admiral to intervene. Reports from Odessa state that at tho request of the inhabitants the French have landed a naval force to restoro order and expel four thousand five hundred Germans, who, together with the Bolsheviki, have'been rioting, and looting. It is officially announced in Berlin that Odessa has been evacuated—Aue.N.Z.. Cablo Assn.-Reuter.-

THE NAVAL ARMISTICE AMERICAN SQUADRON AT.POLA. (Rec. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, December 13. Advices from Libach state Hint an American, squadron lias arrived a.t Pola, and its admiral has assumed command f hero. His authority extends over the Southern Slav warships (recently handed over by the Austrian Government), which arc flying tho ■ American flag — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reiiiter.

FRENCH GUNBOATS ON THE RHINE (Rec. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, December 13. A French flotilla of gunboats . and motor launches.is going to the Rhine — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. INTERNED BRITISiTmERCHANTMEN ARRANGEMENTS POR RETURN : PROM GERMANY. (Rec. December 15, 11.40 p.m.) Amsterdam, December 14. All interned British merchantmen in German ports will bo assembled at Kiel arid manned by German crews, who will lake them to "British porta—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.