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Show HEW ORDER ACCEPTED IfJ QUIET Allied Troops Settle Comfortably and Germans Ger-mans Resign Themselves Them-selves to Occupation By CARL D. GROAT, I United Press Staff Correspondent. COLOGNE, Germany, March 10. Allied troops settled themselves comfortably into new quarters in occupied Germany today. Business proceeded normally, and residents, although holding themselves them-selves aloof, showed no sign of re-sentmenL re-sentmenL Everyone accepted the new order at things sulssly, pi tee . the military police outside of Dussel-dorff. Dussel-dorff. who complained that it wasn't fair to exclude them from the pleasures pleas-ures of city life. At military headquarters affairs clicked along with businesslike precision. pre-cision. General orders and proclamations procla-mations were . issued, officers and soldiers appeared with report or were dispatched on errands Jut as they were before crossing the Rhine. NO VIOLENCE. Headquarters reported all quiet, with no attempts at violence on either side. However, all precautions were taken. Artillery was prepared for action and machine gunners were installed at strategic points. Great placards, printed in German, warned Inhabitants of the area against attempting demonstrations, and women especially were warned not to congregate on street corners for fear they might be Injured if a disturbance arose. Airplanes continued to patrol the district today, but the work was car- it Hi out perfunctorily. I The only Indication of military oc-1 oc-1 4i pat ion was the establishment of a censorship on newspapers, the closing clos-ing of theatres and the military control con-trol of power houses, customs houses and petrol supplications. |