BRITISH IN COLOGNE

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11750, 10 February 1919, Page 4

BRITISH IN COLOGNE

SENTRIES ON FAMOUS Bjjjj “HERE AS OQNQUERQgj We have reached the Rbin crossed it. wrote the .corns*,! ef the Loudon Times "on. Da* Oth Grossed it, that is, tu tent that to-day, I have waltti to the great iron suspension, at Oologua to the point wW the farther side, a Britiiljw the Hussars paces till he German sentry, then", swings*, heel and paces back. The h therefore, and presumably waters below it, are outs, C further shore is still qJ Meanwhile, over the bridge i the usual tide of civilian' I *, triune, gezing curiously « khaki sentinels as 'they p l 8! otherwise seemingly iudiffeien't On the quay, was a Britisj, 1 chine-gnu so placed as to beaty sweep the water side, with i of idlers looking on while ih ß { polished industriously the y, wbioh was already speckless y inside of a watch. It j s difficulty in all these thingstbe is impossible to visualize their siguiaficauce. This Is Gologa* the Rhine, truly a noble sfo And we are here because tbeis of Germany is broken end u beaten to her knees. We are) as conquerors. But all tbit actually on the Rhine at tins mens is a troop or so ol cit and a handful of machine-jam with some war correspondent;, aronnd us snraes the ordinary of the city. More r-oops willf and more—the loads are itij them—and there will cloubtlta the pageantry of a formal entryi the city and of the crossing j( Rhine, and Cologne, through 1 days and nights of listening to tramping ot feet and the roll wheels, will grow to some acqt tance with the majesty of British Army. LIFE OF THE STREETS,

At present a stranger mights to the city and go fth rough ill not be made aware that anjll unusual was afoot. IE lie lev the Heuxnarket he would soeai dred cr so German am nnuition goua and gun cartages parkedtfe as a heritage for os, amt jml front of the great bronze stake the Emperor Frederick William Third, a long (i-in gun lies in street, tipped on its side. Oil wise Cologne is more civilians ever, because there are no Gen officers in uniform in the itw and though there is a ceil amount of field grey in the m worn by disbanded soldiers, ti man has taken off his military 1 tons and the other badges of hist ment or service. And the crovrd up and down the streets intent on their usual affairs. Foe oyer an hour I walked all along the main thoroughfare!,

One was conscious every moi of being the object of serntitj scores of eyes, but they i curious rather than unfriend!),! one asked and was told thei suefi as one might in any ml iliar town. As an officer of conquering Array, one walii streets of this occupied town, w like, a tourrist. It is all an a ordinary mixlnre of the cols andtphe commonplace, the men toes and the everyday. Onr proclamations are not pj the walls, but there is one giro®', Burgomaster in the usual I® telling the population to M themselves and to refrain from .order of any shameful acts, which, he says, the Allied tn have as great disl ke as the Get* themselves. Also everywhere » other large placard, boarded fit wide band of red, which ialit clamatiou of the new Bepul signed by Ebert, ScheidemamV their fellows. And "of every dred, ninety-five have been down, all except the pas‘ed « or defaced so as to be illfl within a few hours of being J)8 It has been so systematically 1 that none suspects it to have » carried out under the authority the municipal officials. AFTER THE REVOLUTION The recent disorders, which® ed the hurrying of this emaili tachment of British troops h® response to urgent invitation W their appointed time, wh«B 1 serious Two or three weitol there were a few days of while the revolutionary xnor*® was effected It is said to “havel* done by ten representatives of' Soldiers’ and workmen’s Coo® who came from Hamburg. " disarmed the whole garrison, j® »ff the officers’ badges, conunaniJ* ed motor-cars, helped themself® food supplies and generally asso® disorderly control of the ci ? affairs under the red flag, he® elsewhere. Now order is k«PU town guard of bows in'civiliao dress, with white ff let’s, and since • onr men eft®* there has been n» more disturbs® There are between 1000 and ® prisoners of all nationalities ? in Cologne, being cared for at®” pital by the civilian tales they tell are familial, dreadful treatment and terribly times during the first two 7 e& war, and of life since then b®' made supportable only by the P cels from home. To-day those® are in Cologne are happy. ~. Lord,” said one wno was tsk* B _ October, 1914, ahd has been cot for more than lour years, **L looked down on the British iubco* gun on tha quay, ‘‘think of s* that on the Rhine.” It is good see it.