Show YANKS IN OCCUPIED GERMANY TO PAY PROMPTLY Y Claims of All Civilians toBe to Be Met Without Delay I Is Order By Associated Press COBLENZ MarcIl All indebtedness indebted indebted- ness contracted by Americans within the occupied territories of Germany be e paid immediately Authorization I tion to thIs effect was obtained by the Third army today toda and from this date I on the Americans will pay their way I as the they gO The rhe money to pay the back bills and the bills of the future will b be requIsitioned from Berlin the I army thus relieving the civilians of the occupied territory from taking the chances of collecting from the German I government When hen the tho Americans c start homeward not one owing owing ow- ow ing to civIlIans who have havo claIms of any kind in connection conne with the upkeep upkeep up- up keep of the United States troops will willbe be owing so far as the tho army records are concerned Before Defore the departure of the tho forces the commanders of the various unIts wIll confer with the tho burgomasters of the respective villages and cIties in inthe the dIstrict and as a final formality form will receive from the burgomasters receIpts in full showing an all debts cleared up under this plan SInce the Americans tame the burgomasters bur bur- burgomasters have been payIng the civilians cIvilians cIvil cIvil- ians their bills but recently the Germans Germans Ger- Ger mans reported that theIr funds were exhausted and that the they were unable to obtain more money from Berlin The Coblenz burgomasters burgomaster's office thus owes more that than marks for bills I contracted in connection wIth the maIntenance of the Americans I |