Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-29
Luxembourg HOLDS
K|NSH|P TOAMER|CA
Many of People Have Come
to This Country-Greet
Army With Sincerity.
HUNS PLAY U. S. ANTHEM
BY JUwtTrs d. WOOD.
CabieEfam to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. C0pyright, 1918.

by JUwtrs q. WOOD.
CabIekram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF
OCCUPATION. November % delay
ed).-Natives Of Luxembourg say that
they number half a million. Of whom
half live in America and half live In
the grand duchy. It Is small wonder
that they gave Gen. Pershing and the
American doughboys an enthusiastic
reception when they entered the pic
turesque marble city on Thursday.
Another reason was that the last
half Of a million German soldiers who
passed through the city after the
armistice disappeared in the distance
at o'clock on Wednesday afternoon
when the Luxemburgers found them
selves free after four years Of slavery.
Marched Out Stolidly.
The Germans marched out stolidly
just as they came and lived in this
neutral nation. whose people speak Il
strange mixture of French, Dutch.
Spanish and English. Several OF the
departing German regiments carried
red flags and two Of the departing
bands played THE Star Spangled Ban
ner."
In less than twenty-four hours the
Americans came. They had not been
seen before by the people. who looked
upon them as the vanquishers Of the
supposedly unconquerable. Germans.
Gen. Pershing reviewed the parade
SenfpA q lang n 1rnnV NJ fha AsaRu1 n q l..
ace built In 1443. where Napoleon re-
viewed his troops In 1908 and where
the conQuerors lived who had played
part in the history OF the duchy.
The narrow balcony has an iron rail-
ing bearing the Luxembourg coat of
with blue and white stripes. It faces
the street and overlooks q statue of
William II of Holland. Duchess Marie
Adelaide, the ruler of Luxembourg, was
in the party.
, Four sisters of the duchess, one OF
whom is engaged to the Duke Of
Parma, an Austrian ofiicer, and also
her uncle. the Grand Duke of Baden.
failed to appear.
The duchess. who is twenty-:,ur is
the oldest of the sisters and receives
salary OF 100000 year She IS
said % be a great attraction, espe-
cially to English tourists visiting
young lady was dresser In a black
velvet suit, q Russian squirrel fur
collar with a mu6 Of the same trim
med with ernitne, white giov. and
broad b.immed black nat with whi'p
feathers In the low crown. Hhe wore
nc Jew els.
"Abdication" Cry.
As the parade ended and the duchess
and and her s Sister a ais through a
American generals were waiting like
actors on q stage, three sturdy Lux
emburgers resembling healthy Amer
lean butchers yelled "Abdication,"
just like that, but only once. Nobody
duchess did not hear 1t, for she was
still living in the palace at the last
reports
One OF tho natives who shouted at
the duchess explained that In the
election six months ago q new parlia-
ment was chosen which superseded
the pro-German parliament. Two
weeks ago The socialists and liberals
combined and mustered twenty votes
IN favor of establishing a republic.
but the clericals and royaiists num-
bered twenty-eight and hence the
duchess remains.
Two proclamations adorn the walls
They were printed In several Ian
guages. The first was addressed to
our liberators." and was signed br
the liberal party 1t protested thai
Luxembourg always opposed German
war when its neutrality was violated
, and that it desired to align itself with
the entente. The O her, signed Gen.
Pershing." was addressed to the popu-
lace and explained that the presence
of the Americans would not be pro-
1anead fnYfhor than M ri
necessary.
Relatives in America.
It seems as If every Luxemburger
has a relative in America The first
one I met said he was formerly a
butcher In Detroit. and showed a
medal which he had won at a meet
given by q Chicago skating club I'm
1902. Another had brother In tho
another was eagerly peerfng into the
faces of the American soldiers. He
said he had five brothers in the Army
and was searching for them.
'.Luxemburg's industries are iron
mills, tanneries. trout fishing and
comic opera plots" said q bald -headed
man who overheard the conversation
when / was getting q description of
the duchess gown for the benefit Of
woman readers. He requested me To-
include. this for the benefit Of Amer
lean business men and tourists.
Everybody in Luxembourg is overflow :
ing with hospitality and consequently
It was q great trumphal entry.
Triumphal entries represent the
glory and also the farce Of war. It
was great stuff for the drum major
and q real inspiration to the Lad who
had crouched for hours through the
darkness, wet and cold. though ne
knew that q bullet might finally get
him. That is what wins wars and ii
, won the war for America Possibip
the Pershing men in that veteran 18th
regiment which paraded thought OF
their comrades who had gone-that
regiment which has been made over
anew five times In as many months
For them there were no theatricals IL
, this parade. They went through thu,
business just as they fought in battle
and were gene