THE GUARD CHANGED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10685, 31 December 1925, Page 5

THE GUARD CHANGED

FRENCH TO BRITJSH. IN THE WIESBADEN ZONE. SIMPLE MILITARY CEREMONIAL. (Per Press Association— Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) 1 LONDON, Dec. 30. The official exchange of authority from the French to British in the Wiesbaden zone was made this morning, the only outward visible sign being the lowering of the Tricolour and the hoisting of the Union Jack in its place. The event was marked by a simple military ceremony in the Echo Schlossplatz. where two companies of French infantry, two squadrons of Chasseurs, and a detachment of 100 men of the Second Camerons, which is the only regiment so far transferred to V\ eisbaden from -Cologne, paraded. Ino smard was changed, the Tricolour lowered to the strains of "The Marseillaise." Then tho Union Jack was hoisted, and tho National Anthem played. A march past concluded the cereA Berlin message states that accordin" to the newspapers the Anglo-French authorities have evolved a plan ot evacuatioin under which a French Army Corps.will remain in the Rhine area after April.