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Show I rVar Material Will Take Several Trains to $ 1 Transport. AMERICAN7 ARMY OF OCCt'PA-H OCCt'PA-H fUJX, Friday, Dee. 20. (By the Asso-' Asso-' intcd Press.) The German autliori-fj autliori-fj ics begun today turning over to the ti American Third army large quantities j f war material which will require sev- iral trains to transport, ri Included in the artillery given up by i ;he Germans ore 7G0 puns of largo cali-J cali-J er and nearly 3000 machine guns. J J The other puns raugo from loOs to, I 210:. ; j .Met.ernich, just outside of Coblenz, j 9 tlJ; iiss'-nibiing point for this rna-J rna-J rF- .Some oi it comes from east of, W Jv Jlhhie, many of the guns having t )i.'on sent into the interior of Germany j lor repairs, aa thn terms of the armistice require that nil the artillery be turned . I over in first-class condition . I j Today American of ficers began check- j in lIP the puns as they came in. Ger-j Ger-j yuan officers, especially assigned for the f fjnal delivery of tho material, assisted j u! t he work and received the receipts as iSist as the Americans inspected and ! accepted tho surrendered property. This is the largest amount of artillery turned over to the Americans under the armistice, arm-istice, and it in estimated it will require re-quire a week to inspect and receipt for all the equipment. BRUSSELS, Dee. 21. German repre-1 Fentatives have brought here from Co- j lognc 380,000,000 marks in gold which ; is being restored by Germany to Bel- ghim. ' (The armistice with Germany rro" i vidod for tho return of the cash de- posit of the National Bank of Belgium ! which was removed by the Germans.) PATUS, Bee. 21. Instead of the 2,500,000 tons of shipping demanded of Germany by the allies to carry out the provisioning of that country, mentioned m the armistice, the German authorities will bo able to collect only 2,000,000 tons, according to German advices by way of Geneva, |