MARCH ON THE RHINE

Evening Star, Issue 16907, 3 December 1918, Page 6

MARCH ON THE RHINE

FOCH'S PROCLAMATION. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, December 1. (Received December 3, at 9.5 a.m.) Marshal Fi-c.-h has issued a proclamation to the irhabitants of t-ho occupied territory <n Rhenish Prussia enjoining -strict obbdicuce, and he Ins warned the people against- hostile cat-, p-cxi-alty for v ;h:cn w-il-be a court martial. NEW YORK. December 2. Major-general Dickm-an’s American army Vi - - entered Gcmia-nv along tho &uir River (a tributary of the Moselle running through A Isaoe-Lorminc). LONDON, December 2. (Received December a, at 9.55 a.m.) Forty British divisions are- ready to enter Germany. LIEGE, TREVES, AND SAARBURG ENTERED. Australian and N Z Cable Association and Reuter. LONDON, November 23. (Received December 3- at 11.25 a.m.) Sir D. Haig reports; _ The advanced troops of tho Second British Army, commanded. by General Piano r. crossed the Gemail frontier between Bello- and c-i; j-. a and reached a general lino through Neue:luirg. Rcnl.'i.ud. Bnllingen, ami Momju-ie (S.E. of Aix-kr-Chapc!k v ). An American communique reports: Tho Third American Army ha* crossed the Herman frontier uixl rt-Rchu-i cchutj] lino through Alforeterg, W mler, ehe.d. Muelbadh, Treves, and S.-.or’.-evg. A Belgian communique states: Hie Royal Family -entered Liege at- the head of the troops that defended the town in 1914. A Belgian eav-alvv brigade has entered Aix-ia-CTarf!!" at'the request of the German authorities. FOGH IN LONDON. Australian and N.Z, Cable Association and Reuter. LONDON, December 1. (Received December 3. at. 9.5 a.m.) Despite discouraging weather unprecedented crowds welcomed Marshal iocli and M. Clemenceau. Unparalleled thusiasm was displayed. Prominent English statesmen and naval and military* men awaited the visitors at f ’baring Cross, where a- guard of honor was formed up. ICING DECORATES FOCH, LONDON, November 23. (Received December 3, at 11-25 a-.m.) The King has decorated Marshal l-’och with tho Order of Merit. GERMANS IN RUSSIA ORGANISING THE BOLSHEVIKS. CZEGHO-SLOVAKS’ PERIL. NEW YORK, December 2. (.Received December 3, at 9.10 a.m.) Mr Carl Ackerman, tha ‘ New York Times’s ’ correspondent, telegraphing from Ekaterinburg, states: Despite Germany’s agreement to withdraw her troops from Russia, German generals and officers remain commanding the Bolshevik armies. Tho Czecho-Slovak staff have information clearly indicating that General Bruerfiar remains as chief of the Bolshevik General Staff, also that General Ebea'hardt still commands tho Bolshevik army at Samara, on tho southern front. Assisting the German genrals ara German and Magyar staffs, who are busy attempting to form a large Bolshevik -army for operations next sparing. According to Czecho-Slovak information tha Bolshevik army numbers 227,000, with 23 new divisions called up for the spring. Tha Czecho-Slovak army thus faces formidable Bolahevik forces, which threaten their communications with Vladivostock. The Czechs must either withdraw from Siberia or obtain aHied military assistance. THE EX-KAISER. AMSTERDAM, December 1. Tha German Government have forbidden the ex-Kaiser and Kaiserin to return to Germany. NEW YORK, December 2. The Loudon 1 Daily Express ’ report a a plot to restore Wilhelm to Die throne, LONDON, December 2. (Received December 3, at 9.55 a.m.) The ‘ Daily Express’s ’ Amsterdam correspondent states that a widespread plot, headed by Marshal Ma-ckenaen, to restore the Kaiser has been discovered in Germany. Arrests have been made in Berlin «.f Pan-Germans, Bureaucrats, and meml>ers of the Officers’ Corps implicated in it. AMSTERDAM, December 2. (Received December 5, at 9.55 a-.m.) The Kaiser blames Yon Bethmarm Hollweg and Yon Jagow for the war policy. The soldiers bitterly denounced the Kaiser’s flight. PLOT FRUSTRATED TO RETORE THE KAISER. Reuter’s Telegrams, LONDON, December 2. (Received December 5, at 11.55 a.m.) The plot to restore German Imperialism collapsed owing to secret service men overhearing a conversation on the telephone. Many arrests were made iu Berlin and other cities. The Government have a long list of suspects, who planned to seize the members of the present Government. No direct evidence of the ex-Kaiser’s connection with the plot has been found, bnt it is believed that the outline of the plot was brought to Berlin by two of his suite, who visited Berlin, ostensibly for taking tho matter up. Lieutenant Yon Bohlen controlled tho financial arrangements. Mackensen is reported to hive attempted to induce Hinclenburg to join, but the latter refused, saying that he intended to retire after demobilisation is complete. The whole of the Prussian Court are alleged to be in sympathy with the plotters. EBERT’S GOVERNMENT. TENURE PRECARIOUS. AMSTERDAM, December 2. (Received December 3, at 9.55 a.m.) Herr Ebert admits that the Independent Socialists are conspiring to overthrow the Government. The German Press say that utter administrative confusion reigns. The papers accuse the Government of squandering 300,000,000 marks in three weeks. DISRUPTION THREATENS. AMSTERDAM, December 2. (Received December 3, at 11.20 a.m.) Herr Scheidemann, in an article in ‘ Vorwarts,’ says tho danger of the disruption of the German Empire is increasing daily. He says there has been a conference with the French Command nt Strcissburg, Alsace, with a view to the creation of a South German Republic. The executive of the Berlin Soviets resolved to welcome a Russian Bolshevist delegation to tho Soviets’ Congress, to be jueiyfat Berlin on December 16.