The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-16
IS GLOOM IN CAPITAL
As WAR IS THREATENED
PREPARATIONS TO BRING u.
S. DoUGHBoYS HOME GO
FORWARD RELUCTANTLY.
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
End of Association With France
When Rainbow Division Is March
ed Out Seen. Detailed Picture Of
The Occupied Area.

Inc occupied Area.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Giooms
hangs over the capital as officials await
developments Of ,Europe's fateful week
with apprehension. Orders for the re-
cali of American troops from the
Rhine are prepared. They are being
held up on the off-chance that France
may be induced to drop her plans for
Selling German industrial cities. But
this hope hangs on fragile thread.
France. it is feared. intends to have
her day.
Parting of the WAYS.
Behind the screen of silence here
preparations for this withdrawal of
the last thousand Yanks are going on.
This is being done with sad reluct-
ailce For it means the final parting of
the ways with France and the end of
the association which began when the
Rainbow division marched through
the tumultuous streets of Paris on
July 4, 1917.
Technically, America decided to go
its own way when it refused to ac-
cept the Versailles treaty. But still the
moral comradeship remained. General
Allen and his corporal's guard at Co
blenz were the symbol of that friend
ship. Now France appears about to
enter upon campaign of forceful
seizure which the United States re-
CARDS as dangerous to the recovery of
the world, and the American soldiers
will be called back lest their presence
be thought to indicate tacit approval
OF the French course. That only SIX
senators refused to approve the resolu-
ton asking the recall indicates the
sentiment here.
Is Continuing War.
A detailed picture of conditions in
the occupied area is given in letter
to Senator Borah from P. B. Moves,
formerly United States member of the
Rhineland high comnis-
sion.
Moves says that there are more
French than American troops under
the command of General Allen, the
American commander of the army Of
occupation.
"We will not attend European
peace conferences for fear Of 'entan-
clements, and yet we leave American
troops entangled with the French
army at the very spot where that army
has repeatedly threatened TO start more
war" he declared. although camou-
tagged under another name, this 'oc-
cupation' is, none the less, continuing
war 1t is war in its squalfd form. 1t
is war degenerated into military bull
lying
Noyes asserted that American
troops are playing the part of milf
tary conquerors" under conditions be-
longing to a state of war rather than
peace and degrading for all concern
ed.
Planting Seeds of Hatred.
q could go Oh" he continued, "and
tell of peasants arrested for driving
bullock carts on the wrong side Of
the road to the slight inconvenience
of army automobiles, of civilians
crowded into a corner of their own
homes in order to make room for the
families of allied officers and later for
hidden to enter their own gardens be-
cause they had picked one Of their
own apples, of merchants ruined for
selling ewelry to a German at low
er price than had been offered to an
allied officer. / am sure that the aver
age American will agree that pro-
longed military occupation OF the
Rhineland is planting seeds OF hatred
and war in millions of hearts"