OCR Text |
Show FALLOT TERRITORY TO j Si: BE HELD BY U. S. 51 ' i '" OORLENZ. Thursday. Sept. 4. (By, he Associated Press, i The German I erritorv to be controlled by American firees in conformity with the decision j f Marshal Foch. announced yesterday,; , (emprises an area of about 2-teO square ' iloni-ters. This territory is virtually he same- as Pershing some weeks -go recommended for allotment as capable ca-pable of being handled by the Ameri-ans Ameri-ans without an increase of their forces. !he total area occupied by the allies s 37,uuO square kilometers. With the departure of the First di-isiun di-isiun of the United States exprdition-ry exprdition-ry force on August 15, the nortnern .flif of the bridgehead zone on the east )CU a iik of the Rhine was turned over to be French, who are now preparing to rithdraw as soon as the Eighth Ameri-an Ameri-an division is readv to relieve them. T On the west bank of the Khine the J .tr.erioan area has been extended about orty kiln-neters, taking in the large 'wus (if Cofhem on the Moselle, Mayen nil An.lernaeh. .On ihe east bank of the Rhine the ijl mericans will continue to occupy the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, Xeiiwierl nl Montabaur. The headquarters of "if American forces will remain at i'jlenz. |