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Show CIVILIANS FLEE: im sin Residents of Lower Rhine-land Rhine-land Quitting Their Homes. LONDON, Oct. 29. (British Wireless Service.) Civilian departures from the lower Rhineland and part of Westphalia, which were begun on a small scale when the first allied bombs hit Cologne, have developed into a panic flight, according to The Hague correspondent of the Daily Mall. All the banks are being stormed by depositors, who are withdrawing their savings In German bank notes of as high a value as are obtainable, the 100-mark note having an appreciable market value over lower currency. But even small notes of one mark are being taken eagerly. Not onlv are some of the banks at their wits'" end for legal currency to pay out deposits, but in places, especially Cologne and Dusseldorff. all except local, and therefore valueless, currency has disappeared. dis-appeared. Everybody who can possibly afford it is trying to make his or her way eastward. east-ward. Even In Berlin financial panic has seized the people and the ordinary paper currency of the empire has vanished. The municipality has been compelled to Issue emergency currency to the value of about fifty million marks, valid until February 1 next within the confines of greater Berlin. Tradesmen may refuse to accept this currency, or at least decline de-cline to change the notes, except when compelled to take them In payment for goods already delivered. The big German banks have published appeals to "our fellow rltiaens" not to withdraw deposits and not to hoard currency cur-rency notes. But the rush on the banks has grown worse than ever. The working population of Cologne, seeing the war factories closed down, big ho vises evacuated and east bound trains crowded with well-to-do fugitives, are demanding immediate peace more Insistently In-sistently than ever. Demonstrations have bepn Increasingly violent. A manifesto which has been issued bya section, of the j Social Democrats declares that if the emperor em-peror does not voluntarily abdicate he will be removed. It suys: "If the necessity arises and tho hour comes, the' oreanized massos of labor, with strong middle class support, will remove re-move every hindrance to peace which does not voluntarily yield to the will of the huge majority of the people." |