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Show OFFBUK TROOPS Elffi ZIDEMj Viceroy Returns ancl Townspeople Towns-people Believe Trouble Is Over. ZABERN, Gcrmnnv, Doc. 0. Hoadcd by its energotic commander, Colonol von Router, tho Ninty-ninth infantry regimont, whoso officers havo causod so much Btrifo botweon tho military und civil authorities in Alsace, left Za-born Za-born today. Half of tho men go to Hagenau, sixteen milos northeast of Strassburg, in the forest, and the othor half to Bitsch, a small fortified town at tho foot of tho Vosges mountains, ' in tho north of Alsace. Tho viceroy of Alsace-Lorraine, Count Charles von Wedol, roturnod today to-day from his conference with tho om-poror, om-poror, and ..10 Alsatian papers gladly interpret tho fact that ho has not retired re-tired from offico ns an indication that ho rocclvcd from tho emperor the necessary nec-essary guarantees that tho military will "not interfere witli civil rules in Alsace-Lorraine BERLIN, Dec. 0. Tho imperial chancellor, Dr. von Bothmann-IIoll-weg, roturnod today to Berlin after conferring with the emperor on tho Zaborn incidents. Ho issued n donial of a published statement explaining his unsuccessful apnearanco in parliament parlia-ment on Wednesday. Tho statement had been nttributcu to Under Secretary Secreta-ry of Stato Arnold Wahnschaffe, who was quoted as saying that tho chancellor chancel-lor wns "ill" when ho spoko in parliament, parlia-ment, and had therefore forgotten to mention tho emperor's interposition ngainst the military authorities at Zaborn. Za-born. "This wns the reason," according to tno alleged Wahnschaffe statcmont, "for tho chancellor's failuro to make clear to the membors of parliament that tho emperor had ordered the army officers to keep within tho law and had sont Major Goncral Kuohnc to Zaborn Za-born to take charge of tho situation." |