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Show t , Money Spent By France To Occupy Teuton Towns j Must Be Paid By Germans ' PARIS, April 6. French soldiers today occupy the German cities of Frankfort do Goutte, which have been holding the Mayence bridgehead, bridge-head, were ordered forward by Marshal Foch following the efforts on the part of the French government govern-ment yesterday to induce the Berlin Ber-lin government to withdraw its forces from the neutral zone along the eastern bank of the Rhine, where they had been ordered to disperse communistic units that the past fortnight have conducted conduct-ed a revolt in the Ruhr valley. Stirring scenes at Mayence yesterday yes-terday described by Henry Bidou, military critic of tho Journal des Debats In a, telegram to his paper. He says that during the afternoon, troops' activity begun and soon auto trucks and field kitchens began be-gan moving eastward, accompanied accompan-ied by Moroccan troops with machine ma-chine guns. Chief interest in- the situation as evidenced by newspapers here is whether the allies will support France, and to what extent This ' query was put to Premier Miller-and Miller-and by the Echo de Paris last night the premier answering: "England was victorious and so was France. I am confident everything ev-erything will work out perfectly." Asked who would pay the expense ex-pense incident to occupation M. Millprand replied: "Why ..Xxer.r ite nianplwmiynco.1XW'e - that by her acts obliged us tor e-sort e-sort to coercion." Occupatlbn of Frankfort, Darmstadt Darm-stadt and other German cities in the neutral zone is generally indorsed in-dorsed by journals of all shades of political opinion. It is recognized Ihco peration will be risky and burdensome, but unavoidable in view of the tendencies of the Berlin Ber-lin government, Critics of the i premier, however, deplore the fact the allies are not participants in the movement "France will inforce respect of the Versailles' treaty but the allies will not help to do it," is a caption appearing in today's edition of the Oeuvre, the inference drawn being that tlje purely platonic nature of the allied support is due to failure fail-ure on the part of M. Millerand and his aides to meet the exigencies exigen-cies of the situation. "Pertinax," political editor of the Echo de Paris, says more concrete con-crete support will be forthcoming as a result of the premier's statement state-ment issued last night He says M. Millerand "feels capable of convincing con-vincing President Wilson, himself, if he is still guided by rules of logc." "Mr. Wilson's memorandum of March 29," thew riter continues, "said dispatch of more German troops into the Ruhr region must, in his opinion, be justified by the course of events. We do not expect passive acceptance of an accomplished fact from our allies, but te confident assistance to Which they have accustomed us." Premier Millerand's note on the subject of occupying German cities east of the Rhine, declared the .Berlin government, "had given way to pressure by the militarist r jpjirlv,'. and .that the sending ofj -goeim'm;htli'o"o,i5s"iuTb-iflid" neft-rt tral zone was not justified by the situation. It was pointed out that the movement of French forces would be of a "coervlve and precautionary pre-cautionary nature, and could not be deferred, and the premier declared de-clared if Germany had carried out the disarmament clauses of the Versailles' treaty neither the Kapp revolt nor the Ruhr revolution would have occurred. |