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Show DENY AMERICAN RECOGNITION OF TEUTON COUNCILS WITT f THE AMERICAN A KM Y (IK Ol VrpATJuX, Dee. j;v , -unrier to Nancv. py the A-ssociated Press, j of f i -cia! recognition by Major General Joseph T. Dickmau's army of the Geiman soldiers sol-diers and workmen's councils has been denied. Every e I fort by the deiegai es assigned to .supervise the affairs in tlie districts occupied by the American forces or to have the Americans deal wiih them have failed, General Harry A. Smith, in charge of civil aflairs, adhering to the policy that he must treat with the do lacto authorities. Members of councils, who now are oniy : civilians, since the soldier members departed de-parted with the army, le-eaLedA- have called at headquarters to explain their connection with the new German p.iv: eminent and to assure the American officers offi-cers 'that their only desire is to exercise certain supervisory acts of burgomasters-in burgomasters-in their government. This was the role they had had prior to the eat ry of t he Americans, but the Americans have insisted in-sisted that It is quite , enough to deal with one faction, and. so long as honest co-operation is accorded, this policy will be continued. The members of the councils have protested pro-tested that they are nor in accord with the doctrine of Bolshevism and declared their only desire is to bridge over the gap of the tiansition. |