The New York Times/1918/11/11/Berlin Explains Invasion of Tyrol
BERLIN EXPLAINS INVASION OF TYROL
Says It Was Only to Keep Demoralized Austrians from German Soil.
MACKENSEN IS DEFIANT
Determined to Pass Through Hungary from Rumania Without Disarming Troops.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 10.—With respect to the Austrian protest to the German Government against the invasion of Northern Tyrol by Bavarian troops, it is explained in Berlin that the crossing of the frontier was designed to keep disorganized and undisciplined Austrian troops from German territory, and that it will not obstruct the demobilization of the Austrian forces.
The German Field Marshal von Mackensen's troops, it is reported, will force their way through Hungary to Germany with their arms, despite the injunction of the Hungarian Government that arms must be discarded when German troops cross Hungarian soil.
INNSBRUCK, Nov. 9, (via Basle, Nov. 10.)—Bavarian troops have occupied the railroad station here.
Austrian troops are returning from the former front in swarms, clinging to the railway cars wherever they can get a hold. Many have been crushed or decapitated when the trains passed through tunnels. Bodies to the number of 273 were picked up on a single day on the railroad tracks near Innsbruck.