Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-23
TREvES, AS OUR MEN SEE 1T.


Treves, where many American aviators with the army
of occupation in Germany have their headquarters, is
described breezy in cooquial language in Gent soix
ante Six miniature newspaper published by members
of the 166th Aero Squadron A E F. Extracts from the
article contained in bulletin of the National Geo
graphic society out from its Washington headquar
tiers. The extracts follow:
THE very name of the place (Treves Trer, in
German) back to prehistoric times far past the
days which are so impressively memorialzed by the
Roman Gothic pile day which tradition
assigns the origin of the Trever tribe ascribng
the person of Trebeta, stepson of the Assyrian
Semrams who liked his mothern-laws society little
that he relieved himself of it by taking exit from the
land his birth and trekking northward that Wo
tan and Thor. ia II !
In the valley of the Moselle he stopped and
here history finds his decendents waiting to be conquer
ed by the Romans and put the map in authentic
Roman style
That the Romans were here one could not doubt
after visit to the vicinity. There is the Cir
Gus Maximus second only in size to the Coliseum it.
self; baths, of which goes by the
of Kaiser Palast probably because it looks so much
like palace than plunge; the Port Nagra, or
at the eastern side of the city; and portions of
the great present such the imposing
cathedral known the Dome and the stately Basilca
repaired during times and dedicated Protest
worship
I'VE imagine that after the Roman days when the
country finally by the Franks and the Latin
Imperator at Treves sent packing that estate
have been somewhat inactive and building operations
at standsl for time, from the fifth century
AT any rate there doesn't to be much to record
about Treves until after Charmagnes day. Of
1t was embraced in his dominions and, later, at the
famous treaty of Verdun, linked up with Lorraine
Under the Emperor Henry l it passed to Ger
and the Germans claim that it has remained
since, except for couple of decades when Ma
poleon included it within French boundaries. has
been bossed alternately and in concert by counts &C.
cesiastics electors alderman and burgomeisters. but
mostly by eccesiastics especially after the ninth
fury when the divine right slogan getting lmbered
up.
ut was an archbishop or two who built the walls
in the thirteenth century and others like him who
red the reconstruction of the great Dome already
mentioned while many edfces Gothic and subsequent
design their inception to such worthless. To CO.
bishop said to belong the creadt of holding the
aldermen when late as 1871 they were bent on al
lowing stones to be taken from the ampitheaer for
road repairs This wasn't the first time the Circus
Maxmus had been mistaken for rock quarry though;
the monks of Himerode built house adjacent to
it out of materials which the Roman works supplied
Germans Austrians and French have all 'clanked
the sabre in Treves Even the Spanards here in
1884 only eleven years before was invested by the
troops of the Grand Monarch under the ustrous Tur
enne Napoleon annexed the whole district to his en-
pre century and half later, but the Congress of
Vienna coded it to Prussia and Prussan has it re-
manned ever since
The streets, usually and winding in wit
hess of their medieval past, clean we'll paved
and thanked by excellent shops restaurants and hotels
while the market place and squares divert the eye AS
one saunters through the thronged with peaceful
civilians or stops the ancient bridge to survey the
beautiful Mosee creeping silently between its piers
and tapping the banks stretch away in level
pastures to the abrupt embrace wooded hills beyond
there little to that he is standing in the
land from which the word Kriegsmobie' (war mobiIza