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Show i I . . ' " :; ' . . . l t German Troops Are Pillaging Cities 1 ! f PARIS, Nov. 13, 4:45 a. m. American troops have crossed the German frontier toward Metz and Strassburg. ' PARIS, Nov. 1 4, 4:25 a. m. Marshal Foch, commander-in-chief of the allied armies will make solemn entries into ! Strassburg and IVJetz on Sunday in the presence of President i Poincare and Premier Clemenceau. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Nov. : .14, 1 p. m., Associated Press. The advance guard of several hundred Russian, Polish and Italian soldiers, freed by the Ger-' Ger-' mans in Lorraine, reached the American lines in the region of St. Hilaire today. The first group numbered 45. LONDON, Nov. 14, 2:14 p. m. German soldiers are , committing acts of violence against inhabitants and are destroying de-stroying and pillaging contrary to the terms of the armistice, according to a French official wireless message received here . today. , ; Thejnessage, whidij f.r.om. the, allied high command to!' j' the German high command says that the allied command ex-1 pects the German command to take measures to stop the vio-1 if lations. If the acts increase, it is added, the allied command j will take steps to end them. GHENT, Tuesday, Nov. 1 2. Reports are current that ( German soldiers in Brussels have mutinied and are pillaging : the city. Belgian advance scouts are now half way from J Ghent to Brussels. Should reports of the mutiny become i confirmed, a flying column will be sent to restore order at the if Belgian capital. I . BASEL, Tuesday, Nov. 12 All the 'J Imperial power in German Austria has I -passed to the state council which will . retain that power until a constituent I assembly has definitely established a r constitution, declares a resolution adopted by the state, council at Vienna. Vien-na. The constituent assembly will, be ! ejected in January. The resolution describes German Austria as a democratic republic and I an Integral part of the German re-'. re-'. public. PARIS, Tuesday Nov. 12 The army committee of the chamber of deputies ; adopted the addition that was disjoined dis-joined yesterday from the resolution ' ; of homage to the French armies, Mar- shal Foch and Premier Clemenceau, i , In the following form of introduction . I later in the chamber: "President Wllcon and the American ' nation and the allied nations and the chiefs of state at their heads have de-served de-served well of humanity." t COPENHAGEN, Nov. 14. 8:52 a. m. I ' Tho new German government has been organized with the following cabinet members: ; Premier and Interior and Military Affairs Frlederich Ebert. t Foreign Affairs Hugh Haase. ; Finance and Reconstruction Phil-, Phil-, , Up Scheidemau. j Demobilization, transport, justice, , and health Wilhelm Dlttmann. 1 Publicity, Art and Literature Herr Landsberg. J Social Policy Richard Barth. ; Announcement of the members of 1 the new German government confirm . previous reports that tho cabinet "would be composed entirely of social-; social-; iBts. The majority socialists who : ' supported the imperial government during the war, are represented by ; Ebert, Scheldemann, and Lansberg, s while tho Independent socialists are : : Haase, Dlttmann, and Barth. ; Herr Dlttmann was sentenced to 'v Imprisonment last February in con-i con-i ; ncctlon with labor troubles In Berlin, i '. He was released by the imperial gov-"i gov-"i ; eminent a few days before Its down-,1 down-,1 ; 'all. Richard Barth, formerly was ed- 'j itor or the Socialist Vorwaerts and is ;. I a member of the Spartacus or Bolshe- s vk element of the independent soclal- A i8te. It was reported through Copen- hagen after a stormy meeting of the I cabinet. |