The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-12-17
C0bLENz CREETS
INVADING YANKS
WITH CLAD HAND

Dy Edwin L. James.

by Edwin L. James.
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Ua Cn'oaso Tribune sud tho "HIanow'
rOnIENz Germany Dec o.
~ .'..rdj D. The vanguard ~ the
a Jean army ot occupation bias
20, ed the Rhine and taken over the
D. oi the cry of Coblcr,
first American, to reach the
I'0c wa5 a battalion at the Thirty
NTH niantry None ON that trip 40
'.c Nossl'c valley viii ever forget il
W. pa ,sd from mist covered and OF.
,Itr' Irrr up that beautiful valley
Until al Bernsr castle we began t1
strike the mountains With towering
hin, on either SIDE We ,kricl the
Mr,sllc winding between thousand
NJ acres 0i vineyards pefChed ON ih~
t-trareI side, of the giant 'l0nc'
Through 420O meters wr passed The
Kaiser Wilhelm tunnel and came to
vet higher hin, and 4 more beautiful
vale. one could not but think of
i. what wonderful machine gun posi-
ton, these hills would have made for
the, German fighter, and one aim 81
1ndered why the boDhc had quit
fighting when he did
~ Attitude is Changed
7 don pretend - know The sgni'i
oaucs. hu, the reception of the Amcri-
can, here was very different from that
at Tricr Here smiling delegations
met n, pretty girls waved their
hand, and handkerchief, The rv,r
promenade va, crowded with the co.
rld, who were IN remarkably ro'l
hnm0r Fvcry0nr seems anxious ~
II, what Cln be done TOR the Amer'r
ol,i,
One walk, along he holri walk
hrve which II one did NOT lu.s across
ihh picturesque Rhine hc might mn
assre the Atlantic city board walk
and on, rubs one, eyes TO make one.
,eli believe that ,hi, IS \ yanIu.'he'
nation A German officer took me
for walk late IN the afternoon \
thousand well dressed men and hand
lonely gownel women thronged me-
boulevard along the Rhine the crowd
nbifont oi the magnificent Cub0cn-
7 ,erhoi looked as well as lli'h ave-
! nu( holiday crowd The shop WIN
daAs are filled with goods of every
desrrip,ion. ] bought excellent cigars
! and Waldorf clgare''
lust Like New Yof'
The German took me into the r'& &
finest tea room Here was scene
which matched the itl rHm 10
Sherry, any December afternoon
silk, and satin, and iur' were seen
IN ali sides The ten room l''eli i'
ornate and luSuriou, IN appointment
a,t night the cafes were filled VITA
msrymaker, unnl Il O'Clock ard Ihc
tlxa,ep Aere running iull blast lne
!. .a.yety seemed as Il Germany han
won and not lost the war.
The world knows Cohlenr rs ono
of IN, beautiful cities Of Europe ana
certainly the German defeat mas
dinmed none Of fs glory II i'bloom'
,nply prosperous and the most sltlN'
irs thing abou, it i, the prosperity
everywhere apparent, and u there IS
any scarcity OF food have Mt heen,
all, TO find it, The famous Ola
Nbnopole hotel and Coblenihot and
numerous restaurants ssrye meals
,hIt would III the taste OF an splcure
The only thing not up 10 New Go,,N
uirdard i, the bread. which is dark
Coblent seems lghthearted; why
cannot tell Where Trier greeted rs
with Nolid endurance Coblent seems
almost to welcome and 10 want "
make merry over our coming ! avn
sur, cannot understand ,
Almost any other time would
have i,lt happy 10 he here but now
seeing Coblent, one at once remem'
ber, Rheims ScSing Coblbent SLEEK
and prosperous, one knows Germany
i, not yet repentant.