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Show MANY IDLE MEN CAUSEfflETY 1 American Officers Face Dif-ficult Dif-ficult Problem in Occupied , Area in Coblenz. I H MEN STAY IN CITY H Efforts Being Made to Re-store Re-store Soldiers to Their Pre- war Occupations. j COBLENZ. Saturday, Dec. 29. (By the Associated Press) The steadily increasing number of unemployed men. in Coblenz and other towns in tho occupied area is causing American of-ficers of-ficers considerable anxiety. Many of the idle men are discharged Gorman soldiers. An official count made to- ll day by Iho burgomaster shows five ll hundred laborers idle and 350 skilled IH workmen also without employment. Those who cannot obtain work aie entitled to a dally bounty or three marks, fifty pfenning, from the cilv. I Unemployed laborers have been of-' of-' fered work by the city at four marks , j per day but only a few havo accepted as the ordinary wago is six marks a,, day. Efforts are being made to re-store re-store discharged soldiers to their prn-war prn-war occupations. H Reports from tne country indicate there is plenty of work there but of-ficials of-ficials have found difficulty in indue-I indue-I Ing laborers to leave the city, partie-ularly partie-ularly in a time of social unrest Ukn( ' ' the present. , HH More than 200,000 yards of groy Ger- , flH man uniform cloth has como into thtv j hands of the Americans from the ! I warehouses at Coblenz. In a- ware-, " ; house across the Moselle river from ! this city Americans havo found eighty j thousand pounds of shoo leather and' , machinery for repairing shoes. I In shop windows in Coblenz, hov - ever, can bo seen shoes, Ihe soles op which are made from fifteen to twen-, ' J ty small pieces of leather. It is al- : most impossiblo to buy a pair of shoes JJ that is soled properly Material abandoned by the Germany Includes harness made of paper and , steel breast plaes worn by snipers. At Mulhelm the Germans left so many shells that the work of counting them i Is barely begun although American. i soldiers have been busy at the task., nl for more than a week. rl |