Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-22
on the Holland-Rhine line OF COM

on the Holland-Rhine line of COM
munication.
Hope Seen in League Covenant.
The text of the covenant of the
league of nations only became known
throughout the army of occupation
last evening with the arrival of yes
terdays English language Paris pa
per. but momentarily it reused an an
absorbing interest that momentarily
eclipsed the subject of going home
as a topic Of discussion and debate,
The consensus OF army opinion is tina.
the covenant is an important mile
stone on the way home, and by win
ming out all along the line President
Wilson has done a good job, which
makes q working peace look like a
proba bility of the reasonably near
future, enabling the army of occupa-
ton to shut up shop and so home
soon,
This is purely the selfish angle that
naturally interests the army most
On the whole. the army found the
text the utmost of dun reading. It's
colorless LEGAL phraseology arousing
no emotions in the soldiers breasts.
Army public opinion in fact. as e,,-
tremely conservative regarding the
covenant and the men are charv about
expressing their views as to the his
toric importance of the document,
Want TO Finish Job Quickly.
Our military men continue, quite
naturally to show mild profession
al scepticism about new tangled paper
leagues. There is, however, wide
spread satisfaction that the Ameri-
cans have not been let in for partici-
patton in a large International stand
ing army, even under the name of a
police force. The quicker the army
! of occupation finishes its present in-
ternational police tour on the Rhine
the better ii will be sat SIZED, and
there is no popular demand with the
army for participation in a standing
| international force in the future on
the Rhine or anywhere else.
| Especially is the army showing con-
| siderable interest in the question as
to a league of the powers, and the
| procedure in case of revolution
breaking out, having the possible case
of Mexico in mind.
Row Over a Statue of Marccau.
A delicate problem has been put IN
to our military authorities here. An
enthusiastic French commiss on to
restore French monuments in the
Rhineland discovered a statue Of
Marceau, a Napoleonic general, who
captured Coblenz in 1894. The statue
had been abandoned by the Teutons
in their hurry to get away from the
| Rhine, and was found in a suburb of
Coblen2 under an ancient fortress and
near the site of the graveyard where
I lie French prisoners taken in the
war of 1870.
hI1TpnnfI n
go to seed, surrounded by cabbage
patches and outbuildings. The sight
Of him wounded French sentiment,
and the French commission asked to
be allowed to restore the Marceau
monument.
Go to it," was the attitude of tho
American authorities. The French
| commission went to it by trying to
buy up the surrounding land, os-
! tensibly for laying out a park In
memory of one of Napoleon's young
est generals, but the German owners
of the adjacent cabbage patches
asked what the French considered
eXorbitant prices. Now the commi-
sion has appealed to the American
military Authorities to use their per-
suasive powers with the German au-
thorities to compel the German own
! ers to sell their land at reasonable
figures.
Tight Censorship on Armisticc.
AS further proof of the critical sit
uation in which the accredited cor
respondents with the American army
of occupation have been placed re-
Gently, by being compelled to cool
| their heels on the Rhine with the
armistice conference at Treves only