CROSSING THE RHINE.

Taihape Daily Times, 31 December 1918, Page 7

CROSSING THE RHINE.

I I HISTORIC SPECTACLE. j LONDON. Dor;. 16. “Tlie curtain Las lifted on the last scene of the great drama,” says a correspondent, describing, in a message from Cologne, the signifant and historic spectacle of the British crossing the Rhine in order to occupy the prescribed limits 19 miles inland and 1miles along the" river front. The correspondent says: "‘General Sir H. Plumor and Lieut.-General Sir C. W. Jabob, driving in motor cars, headed the advance with their staffs, and took up a position on the western end of the massive Hohcnzollern bridge, under a great Union Jack, almost immediately below .the questman statue of the ex-Kaiser, who, facing the city, seemed to avert his face from the below. Dragoons, LancerS, “Hussars, and horse artillery crossed, perfectly equipped, and marching superbly. Armoured cars added a grim touch of humour, passing the generals with no man showing. They guided their cars by the lookholes in the swinging turrets until the machine guns pointed over Sir H. Pluiner T s head, and then the guns were dipped to him. The spectacle was witnessed by throngs of silent townsfolk on both sides of the bridge.”