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Show (BELGIUM BITTER AGAINST HOLLAND I BRITISH FdMCES i AIX LA CHAPELLE, Friday, Dec. 6, by the Associated ; Press. British troops have been hurried to Cologne to main-3 main-3 tain order but what the nature of the trouble there has been or how serious it is, is not stated in the brief official announce-! announce-! merit. It is reported that red forces and their opponents have been rioting. In the meantime British infantry have been pushed up . ; as far as Duren which will be entered tonight. Stringent orders have been issued along the British front forbidding anyone not actually a member of the army of occupation to cross the border without a special pass. LONDON, Dec. 9. British advanced troops reached the river Rhine yesterday between Godesburg and Cologne, Fjeld , : Marshal Haig announced today in reporting the progress of1 the British army of occupation. Godesburg is about twenty miles southeast of Cologne near the Rhine. - -(-By the -&ssociatecl Frcss) --.---"'BEfiLIN, Sunday, Dec. 8. Eager to make members of the Spar- tacus party martyrs as the result of Friday's rioting', Dr. Karl Lieb-1 ; knect, the leader of this faction, lost no time in staging- a spectacular open air meeting at the Tiergurten last night. His call for the meeting brought forth four thousand munition ; 'workers who had responded to the demand for a general walkout, j These men and women marched through Unter Den Linden to the Tiergarten until they reached the point where the Avenue of Victory intersects the Charlottenburger Chaussee. There Dr. Liebknecht j mounted the base of one of the granite statues erected in honor of the Hohenzollerns and made an address. j The semi-circle of Dr. Liebknecht's auditors was flanked on all i sides by machine grins mounted on motor trucks which commanded all approaches. Dr. Liebknecht harangued the crowd in his familiar style, indicting Frederic Ebert, the premier, Philipp Scheidemann and other "kaiser Socialists" of complicity in Friday's rioting. He called . upon the masses to organize Red Guards and beat off the attacks of i counter-revolutionists. : At a late hour tonight Berlin was absolutely quiet. It is esti-; esti-; mated by the Tageblatt that the number of deserters that Berlin is feeding exceeds sixty thousand. Premier Ebert and his cabinet lield a secret session with the executive committee of the workmen and soldiers' sol-diers' council, discussing Friday's rioting. Over thirty mass meetings , of conflicting parties were announced for today. i 1 MADRID, Dec. 9. A decree relieving Polo D. Barnabe, the Span-. Span-. i3h ambassador at Berlin, from the functions of. his office is published in the official gazette. J A Madrid dispatch printed by La Liberte, of Paris, Sunday, re- ported that the Spanish premier intended to excel the German ambas- ; sador Prince Ratiborg and members of his staff who have been en- j j gaged in supporting agitation against the Spanish royal family. I i j GENEVA, Dec. 9. The entire fortunes of former King Frederick I ; August of Saxony and his brother, Prince John George, have been I ; placed under sequestration by the new Saxon government, according ! ; to Swiss newspapers. The properties and estates of the former Saxon i royal family have been confiscated provisionally while payment of the civil list has been stopped. ' i I BERNE, Friday, Dec. 6. Prominent French and German Ian-1 Ian-1 ? BJiage newspapers in Switzerland have begun printing extended arti-K arti-K cles about America. These articles are based on observation made by J ngwspaper representatives who have just completed a tour of the Unit-j Unit-j ed States under the auspices of the committee on public information. I LONDON, Dec. 9 The German pop-: pop-: Ulatlon west of the Rhine becomes "lore cordial In Its attitude toward the ! British as Field Marshal Halg's troops j mve eastward, according to an undat-; undat-; ea dispatch from the correspondent of ;ine Dally Mail with the British army, j' 'As we approach the Rhine," the i correspondent says, "our reception be. .come8 more surpr6ng The authorises authori-ses at such places as Duren say un-! un-! aUgulsedly that they rejoice at our ar-! ar-! rlval. They give two reasons for this, that they are afraid of their own peo. pie and are afraid of starvation. Many confess that the end of the war brought such relief that the stigma of defeat weighs little. Children sometimes cheer our arrival. I "The revolutionary movement Is; real, but not much on the surface. The outbreaks during the first few days were suppressed by the retreating ar- mles .which are much less Bolshevik than the soldiers In reserve and at; basec, I have seen common soldiers in uniform shorn of badges. They are! demobilized, but they have no civilian! clothes to take 1;he place of their uniform. uni-form. "The armed men guarding the arms in the barracks talk without rancor of their experiences in the war against both the British and French. An overwhelming over-whelming desire for peace makep of these soldiers a strong instrument of I social solidity, at any rate for the time being. I "Danger signals are received atl times and on occasion cavalry and ma. I chine gunners are cared for by the British for fear generally, I think, exaggerated ex-aggerated fear of Bolshevik outbreaks out-breaks of Russian character. "The mayors and their staffs act with admirable dignity but much of the population Ic almost obsequious and serve to our men." i. |
