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Show IMS RDM GERM ill AMERICAN ARMY OF OCCUPATION, OCCUPA-TION, Friday, Dec. 20. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press) The German authori-1 authori-1 ties began today turning over to the American Third army large quantities quanti-ties of war material which will ro-.Quiro ro-.Quiro several trains to transport. Included in the artillery given up by the Germans are 760 guns of large caliber and nearly three thousand machine ma-chine guns. 10sh ther 511X15 range from 1508 t0 Metternich, just outside of Coblenz, I II I I I I ! I Hi I H I I I I is the assembling point for this material. mater-ial. Some of it comes from east of the Rhine, many of the guns having been sent into the interior of Germany for repairs as the terms of the armistice armis-tice require that all ihe artillery bo turned over in first class condition. Today American officers began checking up the guns as they came in. German officers especially assigned for the final delivery of the material assisted in the work and received the receipts as fast as the Americans inspected in-spected and accepted the surrendered properly. This is the largest amount of artillery turned over to the Americans Ameri-cans under the armistice and it is estimated es-timated it- will require a week to inspect in-spect and receipt for all the equipment. |