Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-07

Gid her fancied bit of singing. The
sleepy villages that lie along the way
at the foot Of the mountains, under
the protecting battlements of the
SchloSs above. are also like nothing in
Connecticut. But the thing that gets
you and grips you is to see the old
flag on the Rhine, The marines are
afoat once more and their patrol boats
are shooting up and down the river
and on one end is a machine gun and
on the other, the Stars and Stripes!
1t was after some delay and heSit3-
ton, from fear l suppose, that the
hospital couldn't get along without US,
particularly the pneumonia service,
that the company let us get away
Thursday afternoon on the only leave
that at present is open TO the Third
Arny-two days at Coblenz. We left
| on the 40 express, followed the
| winding Misell for two hours and a
| half ana arrived at the city on the
! Rhine which is cur Third Army head
| quarters just before dark. There were
| two captains and two Iieutenants, and
| the former, being the Tanl1er, had to
! look out for us, the first being to find
| The billeting officer. We We're hiking
| along toward this officer when a youth
| in civilian clothes came up AMI asked
how he could enlist in the army. He
| spoke American and turned out to be
| a University Of Chicago boy who had
shipped over to Holland as a sailor.
money had given QUITO see his
| grandmother. He had been caught in
! the revolution and couldn't get back
| except by travelling across Germany
| to the Americans. He had been a
| week on the way and was full UP with
German revolutionary dope.
We wandered around and finally
found the Stadthaus and the Bo, and
Got rooms at the Monopole a hotel
run for officers by the y. VI. c. A We
found steam heat there-a mild
amount of it-ana pretty good chow
"a mixture OF army rations and Ger
man produce. The latter is so low
by the way. that we are not permitted
since Feb. l. 10 eat in German hotels
| or restaurants. Went to a German
concert that night in the FesthaHe
also taken over by the Americans and
run by the Y. VI. c. 4. There isn't
anything in the place that the Ameri
cans want that they don't take-an6
there is no false sentiment about the
! late Emperor William the second. Bu1
| the Germans nle the Americans anC
sell 'em iron crosses that used to &c
at three marks for fifteen to twenty
marks. After the music, came home
to our steam heated room ana crawle6
into our feather beds with the feath-
eFs on top. same as in France. Before
that, however, I did go Gus and gel
a view Of the Rhine by night
The first thing we did in the morn
ing was to go out and see the Rhine
again and walk down to it's junction
with the Moseile. We saw an avia.
for we knew on the fourth floor o
big stone government building anC
we went Up to see him and incidental
" inspect the place. 1t sure did have
1t, with its stained glass, and polished
colums and stone stairways-on thu
courthouse "ter hum" but Coblenz
though only $4,000, IS in the hear o
one of the most intensely cultivated
the use of every foot of ground fol-
vines on mountain sides that are al,
most perpendicular is an example
and most travelled regions OF Europe
We saw the Mucadas Wilhelm del
Crosse statue which someone said cos
over two million and a half dollars
and crossed the pontoon bridge ant
climbed up to the top of the Ehren-
breitenstein, an invincible fortress thai
is now damned full of our American
doughboys. We circulated around tn,
city in the afternoon, and went to ths
German Stadttheater, to play, emit.
lltu 1olne, DN SuueTIidIn. USED Il
read him in college and I could follow
pretty WELL and between the acts
fraternized to the extent OF sharing
few pieces of chocolate with a German
Sirl who sat next US. If she hadn
been an enemy, we would soon have
been friends.
. Our ranking captain tried TO get u!
to come on Saturday evening, but hi:
plea fell on deaf ears, and we pile6
onto the sideWheeler that the Y. NJ