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Show i Teuton Officers Attempt j to Evade Fulfilling ; I of Terms. ! iLACK DISCIPLINE! i ! Allied Officer Makes; German Sailors Step j Aroend Lively. 1 i PARIS, Dec. 28. (Havas) Armis-i tlcc conditions relative to the delivery deliv-ery of railroad rolling stock are being carried out satisfactorily by the Ger-1 mans. In a single day 3,500 cars and j 200 locomotives were turned over to I the Allies. LONDON, Dec. 2S. (British Wireless Wire-less Service) Bearing an Allied commission com-mission which inspected German naval bases and airship and seaplane stations sta-tions under the terms of the armistice, the British battleship Hercules has returned re-turned to her home port During a trip fraught with peril many Gorman porta wore visited and preliminary arrangements arrange-ments for tho surrender of Geman warships made. A dramatic episode of the voyage was tho passage of the Kiel canal on December 18. Accompanied by .the British destroyers Verdun and Viceroy, Vice-roy, the Hercules gave the Germans along the banks of tho canal their first sight of the British flag since 1914 when light British 'cruisers passed through. Germans who watched the ships wore, for tho most part, indifferently indiffer-ently curious but not infrequently women and children waved their hands. Thoro was not tho slightest response from tho ships. Discipline on board the. Gorman warships' war-ships' is very low, according to offi-oers'VVpf offi-oers'VVpf the Hercules. They found ' ,lln Jujftrdcd sail- I ors were lounging about the ships in bad condition as a result of neglect. This was in direct violation of the terms of the armistic and drastic action was taken by the inspecting officer. of-ficer. He notified the Germans that the ships must be cleared of sailors and if his orders were not obeyed he would return to the Hercules and report re-port that he was obstructed in his work. Fearful of probable consequences, consequen-ces, the German seamen left their! ships at once. Inspection of airplane and seaplane stations required considerable land travel which permitted the members of ihe commission to gain information as to the condition of the people in the interior of tho country. It is reported re-ported that everyone encountered in Germany, even in such an industrial center as Hamburg, seemed as well clothed and fed as are the people of France and England. Winter crops owing to tho mild season, are doing well and the land is well cultivated and fertilized Admiral Sir Montague Browning, head of the commission, was accompanied accom-panied by the best men of the Allied nations available for the work. They met interminable objections, obstructions obstruc-tions and evasions by tho Germans but the commission ultimately was vible to induce the Germans to fino H means to fulfill many points of the- M. armistice which they at first flatly re- H fused to carry out. Admiral Goetle of the German navy . H seems to be the only senior German lMU officer still attending to his duties H Admiral von Scheer and Admiral von H Ripper apparently have disappeared H Into the same obscurity which hides , H General Ludendorff and other former H leaders who have sought safety in "re- MH tirement." A notable member of the H German commission was Captain von H Muller of the first Kmden to whom the H British press paid tribute at the time H his ship was sunk, because of "sports- H manship." Unfortunately the identity H of Captain von Muller was not dofin- H itely known to the Allied commission II until after the final conference at Kiel H was over. IH Discipline at airship and seaplane H stations was better than on the Ger- IH man warships?. The Norderney sea- H plane station is said to compare most IH favorably with any station or its kind H in France and England, while the great IH Lordholz seaplane depot is declared tc IH be the finest in the world. It was IH from hero that virtually all German IH (Continued on rage -i) IH British See Hun at Kiel (Continued, from Page 1) raiders bound for England started. At Warnemunde. where a great experimental ex-perimental station was established by the Germans, tho Allied commission met with difficulty when it asked for permission to carry out the work of inspection. It was only under protest that the memhers were permitted to enter, the Germans fearing revelations of what they had accomplished. " The submarine commission, under Lieutenant-Commander Bower pushed its investigation assiduously at Hamburg, Ham-burg, Bremen and other points with the result that scores of U-boats nearly near-ly all near completion and hitherto undeclared by the Germans, were found and reported. Admiral Goctto protested to, the last against giving up these submarincse but at a final conference con-ference consented.. |