ALLIES MARCHING ON

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1918, Page 7

ALLIES MARCHING ON

MANY RUMOURS OF CONFLICT NEED TO GO -CAUTIOUSLY. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COrYSIdHT.) (AOF. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND RBUTER.) (Received December 7, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 6th' December. A war correspondent states : Although the first stage march through Germany, has been completed without any unto- ' ward incident the air is full of rumours of a collision between German and Allied troops. Circumstantial stories are told of fighting in one place' or another. It is impossible to learn whether there is any truth in them, but their prevalence indicates how the air on both sides of the frontier is charged with electricity, and how necessary it is to go cautiously. The German, countryside looks beautiful and prosperous. The people seem to be contented and well nourished, ariS certainly the food in large towns like Aix-la-Chapelle is on an infinitely more generous scale than anything in Belgium. It is doubtful whether London or Paris could do better. 6 Everywhere the Bosches are .outwardly courteous, obeying the signed orders of the Belgian commandant, which are framed on lines similar to the German proclamations in Belgium, restricting the liberty of the local population.