Hq. 130^(th) F.A., American E.F.,
30^(th) November, 1918.

FRENCH COMMUNIQUE: -Via Radio-

Germany is not starving. –From Zurich:- It is confirmed from a good
source that the food situation in Germany is much less critical than one
would believe from the pressing appeals of Doctor Solf. Germany has
supplies up to next April if the actual reserves of the army are
distributed to civilians. These reserves, which had been very slightly
reduced during October for supplying the inland country, have been
completed again since the last harvest and had been reduced only in a
minor proportion. Therefore, there must not be any starvation for the
winter in Germany if the people are strictly rationed and if the
distribution of food between the different states is made with method
and regularity.

The Germans expiate their fault of 1871. –From Berne-
The Germans are beginning to understand that the Alsatians and the
people of Lorraine are making a plebiscite in their own way. The Popular
Gazett of Cologne mentions with anger the hated way in which the German
troops were treated when they had to re-cross Lorraine to get back to
their homes and what an indignant sight Sarreguemines made offering the
appearance of a French town celebrating a national holiday. In the
Dutsche Zeitung Professor Dietrich Schaff, writes that we must admit
that the vanquishers of 1871 have committed a grave mistake in taking
Alsace and Lorraine, a mistake which Germany is nowadays expiating
cruelly, for, as he says, if the French have fallen with honor in 1871
it is altogether different for us today for it must be that the
sentiment of national honor is strange to us when Betchmann Hollweg had
dared to propose to France at the beginning of the war to give up Toul
and Epinal as guarantees of neutrality.

Mr. Clemenceau’s visit to London. –From the Petit Parisian-
Mr. Clemenceau is leaving Saturday night for London. He will be absent
but a short time as he expect to be back in Paris to take part in the
Ministers meeting of Tuesday. Marshal Foch, accompanied the French
Premier, also Mr Stephen Pichon and Phillippe Betslot, assistant
Director of Political affairs. The French Ministers will meet in London
with the British Ministers, with Mr. Orlando and Mr. Sonnino, Colonel
House. They will deliberate on the procedure to be adopted for the next
inter-Allied conference.

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