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...Bishop of Mainz, Ludwig Hugo, stated last week that within his diocese...
Speaking with visible weariness to an immense throng at Mainz, struggling to read his speech in a loud ringing voice which quavered now and then, Old Paul cried...
...Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
...drapeau!" he commanded. Rifles slapped to the salute. Buglers twirled their trumpets in the air, blew a fanfare, anti as the band crashed into "La Marseillaise" the French tricolor that had flown over German Mainz for nearly twelve years slipped slowly down the flagstaff. With as little commotion as possible the 8th Infantry scurried clanking through the streets, quickly entrained for Cherbourg. At the station a sudden irrepressible storm of boos and catcalls from the German populace sped them on their...
...Kaiserslautern, south of Mainz, the celebration took a more serious turn. The superpatriotic crowd turned to raiding and wrecking the homes of "Separatists" people who had advocated the formation of a separate "Rhineland Republic" during the French occupation...