REJOICING IN GERMANY
FRENCH LEAVE SECOND RHINE ZONE
GREAT CELEBRATIONS Reed. 10 a.m. COLOGNE, Sunday. The 12-yard Tricolour which has flown at Ehrenbretistein, near Coblenz, since the Americans handed over the district to the French in 1922, was slowly run down at midday amid strains of the “Marseillaise,” heralding the end of the French occupation of the second zone of the Rhineland. Within a few minutes, every French soldier had departed. There were similar scenes at Aix 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 will begin at midnight, with church bells pealing after a three minutes’ silence. There will be a torchlight procession in the towns. The banks of the Rhine will also be illuminated. Special thanksgiving services will be held tomorrow. The burgomasters, in view of the economic position, have asked the inhabitants not to participate in ostentatious or expensive celebrations.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 835, 2 December 1929, Page 9
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