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Show GERMANS HAND MOTOR TRUCKS TO ' - - YANKEE TROOPS AMERICAN ARM V ? OCCVPA-TTOX, OCCVPA-TTOX, fclec. 1G. (By the Associated Press.) By decree of Hie American military mili-tary authori lies, the clocks at Cohlenz, Treves and elsewhere in the occupied areaa were set hack an hour otv Sunday. The change from the German time was made so that the docks within the bridgehead and the district west of the IsRhine would correspond with the French i time, or the time used by the American 1 expeditionary force. In accordance with the terms of the j armistice, the Germans on Sunday turned I over to tlie Americans 1250 motor trucks. About 500 of these have been assemWed I at Coblenz and the others ip two villages vil-lages near by. As rapidly as possible he former German army trucks are being be-ing manned by Americans and used lo bring- up supplies. German-built trucks, driven by Americans, Ameri-cans, "rumbled through the streets of .CoblCnz on Sunday, but they did not attract at-tract much attention, the civilians-having become accustomed to the sound made by iron tares rolling along the cobbled streets. Americans From Prison, BERNE, Dec. 17. Lieutenant James Duke of Washington, Lieutenant Cassius Styles of "Willsboro, N. Y., and Lieutenant Robert llaymond of Newton Center, Mass., have arrived in Switzerland from a German Ger-man prison capp on their way to France. These officers are attached to tho American Ameri-can aviation service. The Americans informed the Red Cross that the Russians at Rastatt.- Gcrmanv, were dying at the rate of about six or 1 eight daily from starvation. The Americans Ameri-cans were given rifles by the German guards to protect their food stores Trom the Russians, who threatened to rid the American compound, they said. The American cemetery ut Hasta.lt now has nine graves. |