GERMAN LINE SIX MILES BEYOND NEUTRAL ZONE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17040, 23 December 1918, Page 7

GERMAN LINE SIX MILES BEYOND NEUTRAL ZONE.

UNEXPLAINED MOVEMENT MADE BY HINDENBUBG. , . , ~, LONDON, Dec. 20. Hieh Commissioners Labi*. Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, the German Commander-in-Chief, has intimated that he proposes to establish a new front six miles in the rear of the neutral zone on the east bank of the Rhine. He refuses to make any explanation, and is posting two regiments at Frankfort.

* By the Convention signed at Treves on December 13 prolonging the period W ♦> * . ••„ ♦« T.niwrV 17 a further clause was added to the Convention of fc l " StfcUhe Allied Supreme Command henceforth reserve i the igh" when they consider it advisable as a fresh guarantee, to occupy the 1 neutral zone right bank of the Rhine, north of the Cologne bndgehead as I r«th Duth fronfie. Six days' notice of this -7*" -» be •£* 1 the Allied Supreme .Command. The neutral rone sfpulated .n the o. ginal I fistic* terms was required to be set up on the east ™«*^»%£ the river and a line *x miles distant, drawn from the Dutch frontier to the Swiss X ThhrbSStofl to the establishment of allied bndgeheads extendmg 2" ol"aM* from the clings of the river at Mayence, Cblenz and . Cologne;, ■„.»./,■.». >>■■,:■ ..-.■■,"'j "■;■;.'•:■."' . '':','•■.•„ ■ ;■•■'•,• ,■ -V •'