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Fow among the troops who marched through pouring raiu into Cologne, and neross the Rhine in December, 1918,
She is a sister ship to the Palma, which when Plam.' as every one knew Lord Phuner, commanding the Second Army, came on the run in January of this year, took their salute by the pedestal of the and is equipped with modern and luxu Kaiser's statue on the Hohenzollern rious accommodation for saloon passen Bridge, anticipated that the passage of gers, both first and second class cabins five years would still find a British Armying situated amidship on the prome on the Rhine. The majority of officers made and bridgealveks. The ship carries aal aien thought that peace would be first class passengers, in one, two and arranged in a few weeks and then the three-berth cabins, whilst the 7 second Army would withdraw from Cerny class passengers are, accommodated in and dissolve into prosperous civilian three and fourierth cabins. The vessel. individuals. But Lieutenant-General Sir is designed specially for the Calentin Jehu da Cane, who has just taken over Japan run, and travellers will find that the command of the British Army of their comfort has been studied in every the Rhine from General Sir Alexander Cetail. The smoking rooms, music room, Godley is the fourth successor to Lordet, are handsomely decorated, and the promenade decks are unusually spacions, Plumer
The Hawa will be followed about a furnight Inter by the Zuireng likewise on her maiden voyage,
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FROM HAN SEED LODGED IN THE EYE.
Life on the Rhine has become a hum- drum affair in comparison with that of these early days of carnival. There is little wonder that, when it was realized that the long straie of war had been ROWING GRASS IN MAN'S FACE. relaxed and that, though quartered in
was little : the enemy country, there hostility to be anticipated, the Army of the Rhine frolicked when off duty or that the populage, whose relief at the end of the slaughter enabled it to put a cheerful face on defeat and occupation, lanked on almost approvingly and even evinced
An amazing case was pecently treatal at Gloucestershire Royal Infipary, A farm labourer got something into his eye which he was unable to remove, and be.. cause of the pain ho visited the hospital. desire to share in the merry- The ophthalmic surgeon, "on. making an making. which had to be repressed by incision above the eye, discovered a green half forbiddingblade of grass over an, inch, and solénin routine orders "fraternizing with the enemy on the long lying between the tissues, which had one hand, and exhortation to remember sprung nu a hayserl. which was also
German honour"in the local Press on removed from the eye. the other...
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in occupying territory on its own terms.. and the natural charni of Ebinelind which made it for so long one of Europe's playgromals ever to hani, itswas quarter- ed in the best foreign station." German population settled down to make the best of five years occupation, and gradually the relations between troops the and civilians adopted much of stereotyped form of those obtaining between any military garrison and the townspeople.
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Apparently the hayseed had brooms longed in the corner of the eye socket, nhd the discharge from the tapduct had- watered it, and the blade of geass grow. ing from it had revived witheient light through the eyebali to nizke it gr
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REMARKABLE HONOURS CASE,
MONEY PAID FOR A KNIGHTHOOD.
The After legal arguments in the Parkinson case on the question of the illegality of the contract. Mr. Justice Lush on July ist dismissed the action and gave judg ment for the defendants.
In this case. Colonel G. W. Parkinson, ember of a firm of contractors, claim- ed the return of 3,000 from the College The ciremstances of the neupation of Ambulanes and from Ernest Harrison, rendered points of contact naturally Managing Secretary, which sam, it was fewer publicly, at least, there was--and alleged. had seen paid the latter on ar- is-m social interemugse, but no confict, out of an ultimate expenditure of between victors and Vanquished in pri£10.000, on the representation that the vate life. the association of billeteester would exercise his influence to ob- withhilfetors metinies led to friend-inin Colonel Parkinson a knighthood, ship and even to international marriage, whiist in a number of cases the four
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were particularly noticeable when regi-with a new France in a policy of, roule ments were relieved by others fresh from European reconstruction. home and the resulting strife had to be The attraction of Cologne as a foreign dealt with the British Summary Court. station has largely vanished with the One may Now that-large numbers of villas have alteration in the exchange. been built by the Germans for British often make a round of the German Army families. billeting has greatly, de restaurants and places of amusement in creased. More than ever the. British Cologne without seeing a single British Amy goes its own way and the civilian officer, though here, and there the rank his, and the Summary Court has little to and ale still patronize the cheaper resorts
in much diminished numbers, do but punish the sellers of Kognak to the troops and the illegal possessors of the opera, where British military per sporting guns, souvenir swords, and art pay special reduced prices, has a among the criminal classes, an occasional all regular British dientèle, which revolver o murderous gummi Knup wisely takes advantages of the magni- hel"
ficent opportunity which Cologne pro- When the Rhine Army had settled vides. down to the routine of drill, musketry. When the time comes for the evacua- summer camps, and annual maneuvres, tion of Cologne there will be few regrets lightened by polo, racing, dancing, and from the average officer and man who, the usual ports, and appeared unlikely. two years ago, certainly never wished to have any more serious task thrust upon for any pleasanter life than that afford- it than that of reaching the highest milled by the best foreign station," now tary standard, it was thrust into the transformed to the dearest billet in limelight and into political activity by the Service."" the occupation of the Ruhr. Cologne suddenly became a little island of law and order, surrounded by bitter strife, with the added difficulty that the contending -parties met on, its neutral territory. there to maintain the peace that did not exist outside.
A DIFFICULT TASK.
The instructions of the Home Gover ment were and still are simple enough. "Allow no breaches of the Treaty of Versailles and the Rhineland Agreement by anyone ÷ it was their execution which was a matter of great delicacy- so great that at one time it seemed an impossible task, and that the wisest thing Great Britain could de would be to withdraw the "Army and turn her back on the conflict The Army Con. wander of the day, General Sir Alexan der Godley, and his Stuff proved them. selves espable, at a moment's notice, of adding successful diplomary to military distinction.
The main burden of steering a middle course fell on, after the Army Com mander, the British representative in the contested area of Cologne of the Rhine, land High Commission, which body by the Rhineland Agreement is constituted' the "supremorepresentatives of the s." In Mr. Julian Piggott, Allied Powers.' the British Commissioner at Cologne, Great Britain found a representative who in the face of almost insuperable difficat ties, succeeded in a task where many a man might well have failed. From both protagonists in the Rohr struggle all-pos sible pressure was brought to bear to forge Great Britain to deviate in Cologne from the path of neutrality on which her! Government had decided; the task of keeping on that path was not made easier by the fact that certain British influences! endeavoured continually to involve us in the Ruhr struggle on the side of the French.
It is largely due to the tactful handling of the situation in Cologne that Great Britain, haying kept clear both of the Rabr disaster and of the Separatist (Continued on next columa.}
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