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Show GERMANS WANT YANKS TO STAY! Ask at Least, One Regiment for Moral Effect in Troublous Times BY WEBSTER K. ol. (International News service) W A S H I N i ; T N . April 2, Fearing violent' disorders In the one of occupation occu-pation along the Rhino and a general' lack of restraint amqng troops In the borderland, the German government is drafting s "note 0f earnest appeal" to the United States, pleading for the retention of at least one regiment of, American troops. It was learned authoritatively au-thoritatively tonight, Under an order issued by President Harding, all American forces In the Rhlneland are to be withdrawn by July 1. The German government wants to keep one regiment for the "moral effect" It would have and is understood to be apprehensive lest its contemplated appeal be misconstrued in the United States. The foreign office at Berlin, it was stated, entertains no desire to Involve America In possible future outbreaks) Of disorders In northern Europe, but feels that the presence of a small but compact bodv ot American ml!" r-men r-men in the zone which they hold to Be pregnant Of rlot.s and gl nersJ disorder:! will serve as a moral safeguard against! untoward nets on tho part of per-'oiJ or pom ' i - IJchlnd the "note of appeal," II was declared by an official familiar with the potential negotiation Is German dread Of a possible new European up-heaval, up-heaval, Indirectly resulting from the Genoa conference and the enigmatic realignment of the continental powers. tl n |