The French weren't a particularly welcome force on the West Rhine. They came to town in their convoys, drank the German beer, ate the German bread, and sang songs in their strange tongue, leaving only when they had finished plastering each town on the river with posters that depicted gorillas in pickelhaubes, kidnapping or tearing apart some woman with a strange flower on her red hat. A truly grim sight, these wicked Frenchman; it was no wonder why their nation was in ruin. For those who were native to the Rhine, it seemed as though the stinky cheese and rat wine smell would never leave their quaint riverside villages, but some had a change of heart when the German Imperial 62 Infanterie-Division moved south from their stronghold in Mainz.

Though they were not met with any significant force, the 62 Infanterie marched to the small village of Selzen under the watchful gaze of the local Franco-German police forces from the hills above. The predominately German officer corps were, despite the harsh sentencing within the French Empire regarding bribes, convinced by anonymous investors to remain ambivalent to the German army's unsolicited advance into French Imperial territory. When the German brigades reached the small village that housed a police precinct occupied by a skeleton crew of confused French greenhorns, very little could be done on behalf of the Frenchman other than surrender to the massive convoy of armed soldiers. With the French officers successfully kidnapped by the Germans, the precinct was torched in broad daylight to a beautiful rendition of Schwesterlein played by the 62nd's band, much to the celebration of the German citizenry, who danced alongside the visiting kraut soldiers.

As the sun set and the 62nd gathered their gifts from the citizens of Selzen, the visiting forces bid their adieu and left for Mainz; their French prisoners dragged by their feet on the horses of the calvary brigades.

[The German Empire 'steals' 37 units of food from the French Empire. DE124 set to restless for 3 years. 11 French police officers taken captive by the 62 Infanterie-Division.]