BRITISH TROOPS ADVANCE
ENTRY INTO COLOGNE GERMANS PEAR OCCUPATION OP BERLIN. (nSIVKD PEEBS ASSOCIATION,—COrIRIOHT.) | (ADS. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND REUTBR.) j LONDON, 7th December. I Sir Douglas Haig's latest communique states that the British troops are continuing their advance. They have reached the line Rheinbach-Weilers-Wist-Bergheim-Wevelinghoven. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Leeds, announced that the British Army is now marching across the Rhine. LONDON, 6th December. A British official report, dated' 6th December, states: —Yesterday we continued our march towards Cologne and the Rhine. We reached a line at Blankenheim, east of the Schleidem River, and at Erft, to the south of Grevenbroich. LONDON, 7th December. The British have entered Cologne. An extraordinary meeting of the German Cabinet has been called to discuss the probability of the Allies occupying Berlin owing to Germany's alleged inability to conform to the terms of the armistice.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 7
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