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MAYENCE AS GERMANY'S "SORE
SPOT."
** CAPITAL OF THE FORCES OF OCCUPATION.
THE BEST-DISCIPLINED CITY IN EUROPE.
By RALPH HEINZEN,
Copyright 1929 by Unied Press Associations.]
LORD HEWART'S. BOMB- SHELL.
SENSATIONAL ATTACK ON
BUREAUCRACY.
A national book by Lord Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, in which he exposes and attacks the existence of an all po- werful bureaucracy which, it is Mayence. The Versailles Treaty | But the opinion of Dr. Ehrhart suggested, strikes at the very foun- left Germany full of sore spots but not shared by the entire mani-dations of English justice, is about none sorer than Mayence. Here cipal council. At a council meet to be published by Messrs. Benn, Germany feels the heel of occupa-ing while I was there, the socialist Lid. It is called "The New Des tion, and, under the Treaty will Iraction asked the Mayor what
potism." feel it longest unless statesmen can steps would be taken to meet the agree around a conference table on situation which was sure to arrive some means to barter evacuation for when the foreign troops were with drawn and took their gold with them. Thuosands of business men and their families live off the soldiers, the French now and the Prassians before them. But since 15 demilitarized, the Rhineland there will be no more garrisons stationed here, no soldiers to keep the merchants happy.
ensh.
"Mayente in the capital of the Allied forces of acccupation, a French city in spite of the heavy German architecture of its, houses The horizon blue uniforms which fill its streets move in an intense stream. No where else in the Rhineland is the occupation 90 visible, kad nowhere else is it so apparent as here the satisfaction that France obtains out of victory.
The Nationalists,
I will be no party to the dec- trine," says Lord Hewart," that a Lord Chief Justice, summoned to the House of Lords as he is, not merely to vote, but also to advise, is condemned to a lifelong and com- pulsory silence on the affairs of State.'
Lord Hewart, as good as his word, has torn aside the veil and conducted a scathing attack against bureaucracy and all those whom be believes to be tampering with the liberties of the" subject.
The Nationalists are not worried by economie clouds on the horizon as are the Socialists. They are There is no question of party po- General Guillaumat.
already planning monster manifes-litics in the book, which places all parties in the pillory and states General Guillaumat lives heretations to mark the liberation of with his great staff, occupying the the valley when the last Allied boldly that the country is no longer
governed by the House of Com beautiful Ducal Palace, while in soldier marches gut. similar palaces nearby are the
mons, but by the departments of Whitehall. lisison officers of the British and Belgian armies. The General Staff took ever for itself the Law Courts building, and the troops moved into the Prussian barracks, almost lost in those great structures although 10,000 Frenchmen, live there..
If Coblentz is the centre, of arch patriotism, Mayence is the best Cisciplined city in Germany. The 110,000 townsfolk never do anything exactly as they would like to. With three different foreign army detach ments camped on them, and an unusually large force of "Schutz- polizei" their life is well regulated for them.
The Schupos are the most dis ciplined force of police ever assem- bied. Like automatons, with their immaculate white gloves and grotes que and rigid gestures, they move Mayence on its way at right angle movements. Even the ordinarily slow moving Rhine seems to brace up and rush through the town with some semblance of military order.
Advocates of Evacuation, Less enthused with patriotism than their brothers at Coblentz, the Mayence Germans are, nevertheless, confirmed advocates of evacuation. They want to return to a normal life and as soon before 1935 ne is possible for Berlin stateenen to arrange it.
In the street-cars, around the factory gates of the great chemical plants of Callo & Co., in the nar row streets doriging off the famous elddom," one hears over and over the word raumung, evacua- tion. But there is no passion of patriotism in their voices.
Over at the town hall, a beautiful ald Renaissance building ic spite of its gaudy restorations, the municipal officials are busily en gaged smoothing the relations be tween the foreign armies and the civil population, whose anger has risen many times in the past and caused no little bloodshed.
The Municipality here has kept a balanced budget, but only by means of the subventions of the Reich, which come in the form of eredita for Deutsche Kultur-pro paganda, and these fill the ratboles in the budget.
Clear blue
General Guillaumat is a great soldier, as respected by the Germans as he is admired by his Allies and loved by the French. eyes, gray moustache in a young face, he is a typical soldier. On his tunic he wears a single decorn- tion, the French military medal. a French the highest decoration officer can car
"I am here by order of the government," he replied to my question.
I try to organize the occupation in a human fashion within the limits of my orders and inter- national arrangements. During the five years I have been here, I have had no grave incidents.
Nest of Agitation.
"There is a little nest of agita. tion, Pirmasens in the Palatinat, but we do not keep a garrison there. These are internal quarrela
bother which
the inhabitants. There are industries there which employ quite a few communists. Everywhere else, af is quiet on the Whine, I have the greatest respect for my allies; Sir William Thwaites is a great soldier and a fine gentle- mat.,
There is never the slightest dis cord among the Allies. I inform them of my decisions and they put them into effect unquestioningly. As for the German agitation for evacuation, we must expect that. We would do the same thing in their place.
The war is over, and it is cer tainly not France that would ever want to start again. We have" suffered too cruelly, far more even than the Germans. Germany has risen rapidly from the destruction Her industries art formid- of war. able and perfectly toolid. She is a disciplined nation, and her nation; "Occupation no longer has any reason to exist," Dr. Ehrhart, tall,la adore uniforms, and they are delighted when they can march to blonde Burgermeister, told me.
the goose-step in some parade or other.
Foreign Garrisons.
These foreign garrisons stay here without any contact with the pupulation. They are foreign by language and foreign by euetoms. Many of the soldiers families live in houses requisitioned for them, but from which the Germans have never moved. They cook their dinner over a common fire, and that is annnoying and humiliating.
We keep bad memories of the period of passive resistence. Five thousand Germans were expelled by the military authorities at this time and we suffered greatly. But things have changed since the Con- ference of London and the coming
of General Guillaumat.
The new regime is tolerable, and the French authorities are technically absoletely cirrect in their ways. They know how to tell
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to be very hard to, execute. But the occupation has lasted long enough. It is prejudieing our in- dustries, our tourist business. Factories which would like to locate here hesistate because of the mili tary control. Families are without homes, because houses were taken for the soldiers.
No Fraternisation.
"Our people do not frequent with the soldiers, principally because they do not understand each other, At first there were efforts to bring them together. General Mangin thought it was possible to link the French and German revolutions and find some common ground But he based his ideas on quicksand, on the literature of certain Imperialist authors. <!
Mangin ever felt that he should teach us who Richard Wagner was You can imagine the rest. We are Germans and will always remain Gerinans. When the troops of oe cupation leave we will work for peace and prosperity. The soil is rich here, and our people are laborious. They will do their duty."
Our relations with the Germans are perfectly correct. Whatever they may think of us, I say they are helping us in a very difficult task."
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Mr. Thomas, who was formerly an Army Officer, said that he he staying at a Salvation Army hostel came acquainted with Berry while
at Great Peter-street. They both carried two parcels containing aet on to walk to Brighton. He wearing apparel, and left behind at the hostel a suit-ease containing a dress-suit. He handed the ticket for the suit-case to Berry, on his suggestion, for safe custody, as he had a pocket wallet. The day after their arrival at Brighton, he left Berry with the parcels of clothing on the beach while be went to look round for employment.
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Mr. Thomas replying to the magistrate, zaid that until recent- ly he was in a situation as hotel manager in a Hertfordshire town. but had to leave owing to the de- licate state of his wife's health.
Mr. Boyd:"And now you have lost your wardrobe?
Mr. Thomas: Yes, sir; and I am fading it extremely difficult to find employment, even Для a waiter, without a dress-suit. I only have now what I am standing in.
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