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Show Spectre of Bohevism Causes German Citizens to Welcome Armed Foes Gott Strafe England Gives Place to Thank God the British Have Come; Now Polite to Point of Servility, Correspondent Says. By PHILIP GIBES. ('New York Times-Chieaso Tribune Cable, Copyriglit.) OUTSIDE COLOGNE, Dec. S -(Delayed.) For some days now British Brit-ish troops havu been In Germany, and litis morning: were just out-jr'do out-jr'do Cologne. Their way led j them through, scenery utterly different from anything- they met on the marches 1 through France and Hcltcuini. at id perfectly per-fectly German in its charncter, so lhat at once after crossing the frontier thc . were startled by Die change. From lalinedy to Montjoie and from t Monljoic to Duron on the way to Cologne,' Co-logne,' (hey have Veen climbing; up steep hills covered with fir forests, along the edge of deep ravines, round which narrow trails wind in sharp curves, perilous for transport, and dipping down into villages as old-Cash ionort as those in tho iSicture of Grimm's Fairyland, and snuggling in valleys below high sandstone sand-stone cliffs. Yesterday I passed columns of English and Scottish troops on I lie march through tho forest of Duren . and on the high winding roaus of the plateau around. Duren is a great forest, dark and gen-j gen-j erous in Us depth, between long glaues i of tall, ttraiglit-co! untried firs, with their sweep of green foliage above masses of scarlet bracken. Silent Forests Greet the Troops. All Was silent, in those wKdi. No hv-, ing tiling stirred as our men went by, glancing sideways up the glades ihrough which, the sunlight slanted. One might meet with women in such forests and red-capped gnomes and the wolf, whteh said, "Good morning, my dear," to 1 .11 Lie Red Riding Hood, lltyond this forest the cliffs fell steeply to brown streams rushing rush-ing swiftly ' over boulders. It was a wild country for our men to pairs. Our motor lorries sidestepped on tho edge of ravines, ra-vines, and only the skill of the drivers saved them from toppling over. Our pack mules trudged up slowly, our men with rain slashing tlteir waterproof capes and with tunics already soaked, went silently through the forest and over the hills breathing hard . because of steep i climbs. Their march was long. I I saw them billeting in some or ihe j Gentian villages, where cottages and inns and farmhouses wcro built of black beams and plaster, like those in Tudor England, with old ruins on the bills above. Everywhere I found villagers had received them in friendly way, and ycl-low-h.iired German children stood in groups around them as they handled their liorscb and unloaded their I rn nsporl s. Doff Their Hats to British Officers, AVar is war, but children arc children, and it is difficult to nourish hatred in one's heart when small boys and girls come to shako one's hand or kiss it, and when little maids with pigtails curtsey as one passes, and in a wayside inn a serving maid wishes one a good appetite before one eats, and stands around with anxious eyes to observe tho effect of the food she has cooked. Fvery man of high or low estate doffs his hat when a British Brit-ish officer passes, and if one slops to make an inquiry, German civilians, many of whom were German ot fleers unlii a week ago, answer with the utmost politc-:ip--s. Defeat and the revolution by which they are threatened, and fear of worse things that may happen, have made the German people painfully anxious anx-ious to abide by the rules of our occupation occu-pation and get on tho right side of those who now have til'1, powers- of life and d"ath over t,hem. This fear and ihe tremendous tre-mendous relief t fiat: bloodshed has finished,, fin-ished,, and, perhaps, also the hope of a lew era of liberty released from Prussian militarism, has qhanged the attitude of these people of the Rhinelnnder towards the English. . There is no more "Gott strafe England." Again during the last few days I have heard German people say, "Thank God the English havo come," and I believe they say that with sincerity. The German military critics are more afraid, it seems, of .Bolshevism than of the British soldiers, and during the time of political crisis and social revolution, people with property and those who de- (Continued on Page Two.) GERMAN CITIZENS WELCOME . AU.IES (Continued from Page One.) sire law and order rather than anarchy of the mob, were anxious tor the presence pres-ence of the British as being the lesser of two evils, though tragedy enough. Thus the burgomaster ot" Cologne sent.. yesterday a special message asking that the troops should enter earlier than previously pre-viously arranged, and some gunners were sent forward. This to restrain the lower element of the civilian population from pillage and riot, as they have been doing, I am told, In Cologne, and as certainly they have done in Duren and other places. At Duren, now occupied by British, the first act of the mob. partly made up of revolutionary soldiers and partly of disorderly youths, was to break Into the barracks and loot them. The German Officers were disarmed and degraded, but not otherwise hurt, and there was a good dsal of window smashing' and pillage until the burgomaster enrolled a town guard, mostly m:'.de up of ex-soldlers in plain clothes with arm bands and with loaded rifles. These men were there yesterdav when I visited the place, drawn to it" by its curious architecture. It was built just before the war rather on the plan of dwellings in Berlin. I arrived iust as one of our officers was about to examine the delivery of arms called for by thr proclamation forbidding any civilian to carry weapons under pain of death. Most of the arms delivered were office: V swords. One boy came through the ton :i with a wheelbarrow loaded with them and they were ornamental things carried by German officers in pece time and never taken on the battlefield, but in one great room of this barracks were eighty-four eighty-four trench mortars brought back from the field of war. There wore three-Inch nilnenwerfor, which the Germans used with deadly effect in their attacks on March 21 and other days during their last offensive, when thev used large numbers num-bers of them for their flrFt break through. I was glaad to sec that thf-y were out of action, neer again to be used against our flesh and blood. One of the town guard spoke to me and showed me his papers proving he had been poldiering in Champagne and Flanders Flan-ders until he was badly wounded in the head by British shrapnel. "Thank God, that is all over." he said |