THE ENTRY OF THE TROOPS INTO BERLIN.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 845, 3 August 1871, Page 3

THE ENTRY OF THE TROOPS INTO BERLIN.

■(DAILY NEWS COBBES2OKDEITT.) Seelim - , May 24. It is ndt yet quite certain that the triumphal entry into Berlin, of the •German army, will take olace, as was intended, <on the 20th June, but the turn events have taken at Paris renders it iprobable at least. The programme of the reception by the •city isfcow definitely settled. A. route has been chosen -from the circumference of Berlin to the centre, which admits of an enormous number 'of spectators finding convenient places, •either in windows or on seats ia the ■open street* The troops will assemble on the extensive field for military exercises between the KJreuzberg and the village of Tempelhoff. They will enter the southern suburbs between the two buge breweries situated on the summit of the Kreuzberg. The' street, which leads from there to the Hallische-gate, is about forty yards broad and a mile in length. Being lined with very high and stately houses, almost all provided with balconies on every story, running in a' very gentle curve, even the first part of the route will offer no contemptible opportunities for sightseers. The ■name of this thoroughfare is Belle Alliance-street, after the meetingplace of Wellington and Blucher on the evening of the battle of Waterloo. It opens to the north into a cluster of Wge squares near the Hallische-gate. Here the first circular hall of victory, adorned "with statues emblematic of. the war, will receive the conquerors. The series of stationary bands of music is to begin here, and two rows of pasteboard statues and architectural trophies will lbne the whole way. The further progress of the march will not be by the ordinary avenue, Frederickstreet, which, beginning at the Hal-lische-gate, runs in a perfectly straight line, two milesand a half long, through the whole West-end of Berlin. It has been preferred to let the troops pass first by Koenigsgratz-street to the Brandenburg-gate, the triumphal arch •of Berlin, which is a magnified copy of the Propylsea. Thus two miles more of a sufficiently broad thoroughfare—the breadth of this comparatively new street is more than thirty yards—are gained. A second and larger " hall of victory " is to be constructed in Parissquare, just inside the Brandenburg«ate, where the Teception by the Emperor and the great bodies of the State is to take place. From here begins the march through Unter den Linden, the real " Via Triumphalis," or " Via Sacra" of Berlin, 60 yards broad, one mile and a half in length. As in 1866, the avenue will be lined with the cannon taken, if the enormous number—nearly 2000, against 200 in 1856—really can be placed, Triumphal arches—erected by the guilds and trades—will follow in rapid succession. More than 100 large flags along the road will bear the official despatches from the seat of war in their chronological succession. The spectacle in preparation becomes grander as we proceed. The four rows of trees which adorn Unter den Linden, break off where the equestrian statue of Frederick the Second rises in the middle to the height of fity feet. • Thence to the East the broad pavement of the street is quite free from any impediments to the view, and the great public buildings, which' follow each other ia unbroken succession on both sides, greatly facilitate showy displays. Here the pacific branches of the great army of the German nation—the medical service, the ambulances, the postal service, the seivice of railways and telegraphs, "*c-—are to be represented. It will be a kind of open-air exhibition on the largest scale, with tribunes containing accommodation for the ladies' associations, the ladies of the Central Com-

mittee surrounding the Empress on the large balcony of the Emperor's house.

Having thus finally passed the Academy of Arts, the University, and the Arsenal on the left, the Emperor's house, the Great Opera, and the Palace of the Crown Prince on the right, the military cortege will cross the broad Scblosssbrucke, that fine structure of Schinkels with its marble groups, and will issue on the Lustgarten, a square which will bold about a hundred thousand people, and surrounded by the old State Palace, the Cathedral, and the old Museum. Here it will be received by a colossal painted pasteboard statue of G-ermania, eighty feet high, after the well-known lithograph, showing her keeping watch on the Lorelei Eock on the Ehine. But this timo she will hav<3 thrown down shield and sword, and instead will lead, right and left, two children that had been lost, Alsace and Lorraine, carrying images of Goethe and Schiller as dolls to play with! Are the children to cry or to look satisfied ? This latter question is one which will soon receive some kind of an answer at last. The shape in which the Bill of Annexation has just come out after the second reading before the Eeichstag, and which, in the main, coincides with the propositions of the Federal Council, is said to satisfy thus far the committee of Alsatians the new Mayor of Strasburg, the Mayor of Hagenau, and Baron Durkheim—whose private opinions on the subject were taken by the Federal Council. Will it be the same with the bulk of their countrymen ?