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Show PEHIK MOVES HEADQUARTERS TO TREVES. GERMANY WITH THE AMERICAN AJRMY OF OCCUPATION, Dec. 16. American troops crossed tho frontier into Prussia Prus-sia at daylight behind tho German rear guards. Treves is the most Important Im-portant city thus far occupied. American Ameri-can troops also are patrolling scores of villages, however. General Pershing is in tho immediate immedi-ate vicinity to observe the operations. His advance headquarters will bo established es-tablished at Treves, where General Preston Brown will bo military governor gover-nor and General Harry A. Smith in chargo of civil affairs. The advance today averaged twelve miles. Troves is situated on the right bank of tho Moselle river fifty-seven miles southwest of Coblenz. It is perhaps the oldest town in Germany and is rich in Roman relics. The population at the outbreak of the war was about 60.000. |