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Show ALLIES WILL TAKE BIG KRUPP IIS CITY OF ESSEN REPORTED TO BE NEXT OBJECTIVE OF INVASION OF GERMANY. Recent Entry of Armed British Ships in German Harbors Is Seriously Engaging Attention of German Ger-man Government. Berlin. Occupation of Ksse.n. home of the great Krupp works, will lie the next objective of the allied advance into Germany, according to the belief expressed in army circles here. As the result of extending their lines along the Duisberg-Essen railway, rail-way, entente troops have approached to within less than three miles of the latter city and more than lifteen miles east of the Rhine. Among the towns entered were Mulheim, Oberbauden, Woilau and Spendorf. Franco-Belgian troops have occupied oc-cupied the western quarter of Mul-lieiin-Ruhr and the railway station at Speldorf. Oilier small allied forces have occupied the west railway station sta-tion at ()berhaiien and locks in the vicinity of the Emscber canal. The recent entry of some , armed British ships in German harbors, it was announced in the reichstag. is seriously se-riously engaging the attention of the German government in view of the "gravity of the principle involved." Chancellor Fahrenbach urged the speedy passage of the disarmament bill, warning that delay, for which neither lie nor the government could take the responsibility, would entail danger. The central committee of the German Ger-man wholesale trade organization has adopted a resolution declaring it to be the patriotic duty of German merchants to refrain from purchasing noH-essential goods from the countries concerned in the imposition of the economic penalties on Germany. The occupation of the Mulheim and Speldorf railway stations in the Ruhr district of Germany by French troops was simply a further step in the plan adopted by the London reparations conference, it was explained in official circles at Paris. |