7 DECEMBER 1918, Page 3

The Allied armies crossed the German frontier last Sunday and

began their march to the Rhine. By the end of next week they are to occupy the bridgeheads on the right bank east of Cologne, Coblenz, and Mainz, as well as the whole left bank of the Rhine from the Dutch to the Swiss frontier. The correspondents with the armies report that food was plentiful and relatively cheap in the German border districts, and that the people showed no sign of the privations which the Belgians and the French in the occupied territories have had to endure for years.