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Show COBLENZ WILL BE CAPITAL OF NEW RHENISH REPUBLIC PARIS, June 2. Coblenz will be the capital of the new Rhine republic, which was proclaimed yesterday in several Rhine cities. The new. government and national assembly will meet there, but the provisional government will sit at Wiesbaden. Portions of the proclamation have been telegraphed to the Echo de Paris from Metz by Maurice Barres. One significant section follows: "We declare the autonomous Rhenish republic to bo founded in the bosom of Germany. It is a .pacific republic, wnlch is composed of the Rhenish province. Old Nassau. Rhenish Hesse and the Palatinate. Palati-nate. The foundations rest on the following fol-lowing bases: "I. The frontiers will remain the same, including Birkenfeld. "2. Changes in frontiers can be made only with the approval of other nations na-tions interested, as established by a plebiscite. "3. The provisional government of the Rhenish republic is exercised by the undersigned un-dersigned delegates of the people. "4. Flections for the Rhenish national assembly will be held without delay, according ac-cording to the 'methods of the German national assembly. "Coblenz is to 'be the capital of the new -government and the national assembly assem-bly will meet there. The provisional government gov-ernment will sit at Wiesbaden. Local authorities will continue to exercise control con-trol for the time being. The provisional government will take the place of. the central government and the Prussian, Bavarian Ba-varian and Hessian governments. (Signed) "RHFNISH HESSIAN -NASSAU COMMITTEE. COM-MITTEE. "PALATINATE COMMITTEE. "June 1, Another passage shows the movement not to be separatist, but anti-Prussian. M. Barres says that Dr. Dorden, the president of the new republic, is the soul of the' movement. He is from Bonn and before the war was a magistrate. During Dur-ing the war he was a German officer. |