The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-11-22
European

European
French troops have occupied Null
hansen, Sedan, Gravlotte,. the forts
south of Metz, Munster and Artkirch,
according to French official commun-
| ications.
Alsace-L Lorraine day was celebrated
in Paris, Sunday, November II. The
day was celebrated not by victorious
troops marching through the city, but
by countless professions of civilians
on parade before ten thousand troops
scattered along the route. 1t is esti-
mated that two hundred thousand peo-
pie marched in the procession.
A detachment of American soldiers
and American Red Cross women work
ers participated in the celebration OF
Alsace-L Lorraine day and received ova-
lions from the French soldiers and
the population generally.
Extremists in Holland demand; the
abdication of Queen WilhelmiIa. Jonk-
heer Kolyn, former Dutch minister,
has been recalled from England to
Holland, ostensibly to form a new cab
met.
The Dutch government says the mi
nority is threatening to seize power,
but declares it's determination to main
tain authority and order. ia
More than one hundred men, mostly
Germans, have been killed in riots in
Brussels. 49,:
The allies are ready to lend their
whole resources for restoration OF the
economic bases of civilized life in
those countries desiring order and civ
ilization. But this will be delayed
just as long as the peoples of the cen
trail European states are disorderly:
Three French deputies want the i'm
perial family extradited from Holland
and put on trial for instigating the
war
1.-THE commanders of the German
armies continue to propose to the com
manders of the allied armies facing
them that they should Immediately
hand over their war material and prls-
oners to the allies" This is the sig
nifcant message to the German high
command sent out by the French. gov
eminent wireless station. The German
soldiers in various sections of the oc-
cupied territory have apparently been
getting out of hand. In some places
thew have attacked their commanders
and raised the red flag of revolution.
Germans troops have begun to evac-
uate France and Belgium. The allied
troops are moving forward, the Amer
leans advancing in the direction OF
Metz and Strassburg.
1t is probable that the departments
in the re-won territory will assume
their old names, namely Bias Rhin,
prefecture of Strassburg; Haul Rhin,
prefecture of Colman, and in Moselle,
prefecture of Metz.
The French government is already
considering the establishment of pro-
visional administrative government for
the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.
The allied fleet arrived off Constan-
tinople. and have passed through the
Dardanelles, the British admiralty an
nounces. British and Indian troops
occupying the forts parade as the YES
sells passed.
No military occupation of CONSTANT
nople Is probable unless disorder de-
mands that such course be taken.
"A. Zurich dispatch declares, that a.
republic was proclaimed at Berlin on
Saturday. November 8.
Germany's new provisional govern
ment will be all red, says dispatch
from Copenhagen-that is to say, the
bourgeois parties will snot be repre-
ssnted in it, This will not be because
of their unwillingness to participate,
but because the Socialists after a con-
ference with the representatives OF the
| former majority party in the reich
stag, refused to permit the bourgeois
to enter the new government. Nhe
plan is to give the Independent Social
lists the vice chancellorship and two
other secretarial posts. There are in
dications that the independents will
demand more, but their demands have
not taken definite form,
Nine British airplanes landed at Gal
alta, a suburb of Constantinople, two
days after the signing of the Turk
ish armistice. The first allied officer
to reach European Turkish soil was
Flight Commander Henry Wiser, a
Canadian, and a graduate of Yale'in
1912.
About the happiest man in Europe
is David Lloyd George. Before the'I
war the nobility called him an an
archist, a Socialist and little bit OF
everything. Now he is the savior
and deliverer of his country. The
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