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Show YANKEES WED GERMAN GIRLS. Many American Soldiers Marry When Orders Are Misunderstood. Coblenz. Reports of marriages between be-tween American soldiers and German girls have been received at headquarters headquar-ters from various parts of tlie occupied occu-pied niea during the past few days, but as yet no charges have been filed against any of the men. It is believed most of the marriages were due to misunderstandings regarding the anti-fraternization anti-fraternization regulations. A week before the treaty was signed several of the chaplains, through a misunderstanding, mis-understanding, informed the soldiers that marriages were permissible as soon as the Germans accepted the peace terms. Officers say that a number num-ber of marriages took place before this belief was corrected by a special order from headquarters calling the attention atten-tion of officers and men to the fact that until the United States ratified the treaty Germany and America technically were at war, and the regulation reg-ulation prohibiting fraternization was still in force. |
