RHINELAND EVACUATION
GERMAN CELEBRATIONS. (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Recd. Dec. 2, 11- a.m.) COLOGNE, November 30. The twelve yards’ tricolour which has flown at Ehrenbreitstein, near Coblenz, since the Americans handed over the district to the French in 1922, was slowly run down at midday amid strains of “The Marsellaise, heralding the end of the French occupation of the second zone. Within a few minutes every French soldier had departed. There were similar scenes nt A.ix-la-Chapelle, whence- the Belgians departed. The Germans prepared numerous official festivities in celebration of the evacuation, for which an excursion was run from all parts of Germany. The demonstrations began at midnight, the church bells pealing after three minutes’ silence. There will be torchlight processions in the towns. The banks of the Rhine will also be illuminated. Special thanksgiving services will be held to-morrow. The Burgomaster, in view of the economic position, asked the inhabitants not to participate in ostentatious, expensive celebrations. REPARATIONS BILL. BERLIN, November 30. The Reichstag rejected the antiYoung Plan Bill, only the Nationalists voting therefore.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1929, Page 8
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