Show LUXEMBERG NOW REPUBLIC grand duchess mane gives up palace for chateau metz luxemberg was proclaimed a republic on friday when alie gian duchess marle returned from alie capi ital taking up in a chateau nearby the chamber held an excited meet ing the clericals quitting the hoube in a body alie grand duchy of inborn isi bordered on alie north and northeast by on the south by alsace lorraine and on the vest by the belgian province of luxemburg the grand duclie Is presided 0 or by the grand duchess marie adelaide who was born in 1894 ky the treat of london of Lux einberg vas declared neutral territory and its in and independence gun at the outbreak of the present war however the germans passed through luxemberg in their invasion of belgium notwithstanding the protests of the grand duchess |