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Show UCANS CROSS GERMANRONTIER VANGUARD OF FORCES WATCH HUNS AS THEY START ON HOMEWARD MARCH. Demolish Barriers Which Guarded the Old German Front East of Verdun Ver-dun Hun Soldiers Revolt Against Brutal Officers. Paris. The German frontier was crossed at several jilac.es Sunday by American signal corps units and ambulance ambu-lance workers. Short trips were made into Rhenish Rhen-ish Prussia, where the inhabitants are reported to have shown the Americans Amer-icans every consideration. . American forces have completed demolishing de-molishing barriers which guarded the old German front east of Verdun, consisting con-sisting of reinforced concrete pillars stretching along the old front for two miles. At Mars-La-Tour, just at the edge of the village, the Americans encountered encoun-tered tank barriers, some, of which were only half completed. A few blasts of dynamite soon put them out of commission. At Etain the Germans had barriers of logs chained together on four wheels, the logs being movable like a gate. On these harriers the Germans Ger-mans bad installed ingenious devices to remove the wheels from beneath the logs which would Mien drop across the road at the main road entrance into Etain. This log barrier was just at tlie western entrance, the logT acting as a check in the event Mu.t the mines failed to destroy the bridge. The American forces resting Sunday along the German frontier spent their spare time at various points watching the Germans opposite them. In numerous nu-merous instances the Germans waved farewell when their detachments started start-ed on their homeward march. Reports of rioting continue" to reach American headquarters from various sources. One report was to the effect ef-fect that a German colonel had been dragged from his horse by soldiers and beaten severely. Before crossing from Luxemburg many of the privates told the Luxein-burgers Luxein-burgers that when they reached Germany Ger-many they would decline to obey their officers, do as they pleased, and if taken to task by their officers, trouble would result. |
