ALLIED EVACUATION
TRICOLOUR HAULED DOWN
GERMAN FESTIVITIES
United Press Association—By Electric Telecraph—Copyright. (Eeceived 2nd December, 9 a.m.) COLOGNE, 30th November. The twelve-yard Tricolour which has flown over Ehrenbreitstein, near Cob-Jcnz,-since the Americans handed over she 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. Within a few minutes every French soldier had departed. There were similar scenes at Aix La Chapelle, from which the Belgians departed. The Germans have prepared numerous official festivities for the celebration of the evacuation, for which excursions will be run from all parts of Germany. The demonstrations begin at midnight, the church bells pealing after a three minutes' silence. There will be torchlight processions in the towns, and also the banks of the Rhino will be illuminated. Thero will be special thanksgiving services tomorrow. The burgomasters, in view of the economic position, have asked the inhabitants not to participate in ostentatious expensive celebrations. •
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1929, Page 12
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