GERMAN RHINE CABINET

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 202, 24 May 1945, Page 8

GERMAN RHINE CABINET

Appointment In U.S.

Army Area (Received May 23. 7 i>.in.) LONDON, May 22.

The establishment is announced of n German Government for the entire occupation zone of the United States loth Army, covering an area of 14,000 square miles with a pre-war population of 11,000,000 and with the capital at Bonn, states the Associated Press correspondent with the army’s headquarters. _ The Fifteenth Army commander, General Gerow. lias selected as head of the administration Dr. Hans Fuchs, a veteran of the first World War, who was prominent in the Catholic Centre Party and was the pre-Nazi Obcrprcsident of the Rhine Province. The Rhine Military District, over which he now presides, is GO per cent, larger as a political unit than the Rhine Province under the Weimar Republic. One bf his Cabinet members will be Dr. Karl Mueller, who has been given charge of food and agriculture. The Nazis imprisoned Dr.■ Mueller for two months in 1933 and removed him from his post in connexion with food administration. German Army Control.

Major-Geuerai Rooks, General Eisenhower’s assistant chief of staff, has been appointed General Eisenhower's chief of staff with the German high command at Flensburg. The main purpose is to impose the will of SHAEF on the German high command and make such use of it as is necessary to control the German forces in the occupied areas. Field-Marshal Montgomery has been appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces of occupation in Germany and the British member of the Allied Control Council in Germany. His chief representative for control questions will be Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Weeks. More than 100,000 Germans will begin to walk home on Friday from Holland, says a correspondent with the Canadian Army. Most of them will foot it all the way except for the crossing of part of the Zuyder Zee. The Russian-controlled Berlin radio tonight told Berliners that their clocks must be advanced one hour, bringing Berlin time in line with Moscow time.