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...newspapers and manuscripts. When he died in 1892 he left the fruits of 40 years of collecting-jour-nals in 43 languages from 32 countries. These were bequeathed to the municipality of Aix-la Chapelle which built upon the collection, until, last week, the Technical College at Aachen (formerly Aix-la Chapelle) opened to the public its Newspaper Museum. It contained 150,000 journals in nearly all languages. Oldest example is a copy of Neue Zeitung Tubingen of 1561. Most interesting U. S. item is a copy of The Constellation, believed to be the largest ever printed. It measured...
...sorry to say that I look toward the future with great concern. We cannot ignore the fact that according to von Seeckt's theory,* motorized German shock troops leaving Aachen at 8 p. m. could be at Brussels at 5 a. m. the next day without having met Belgian troops. . . . The population as a whole has behaved well except youths, who, apparently incited by their schoolmasters, resorted to tricks that impelled me to abandon riding or marching through the streets...
...when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily. Great bonfires of straw were burned to "purify" the Place de la Concorde. From German Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and Coblenz the last Belgian and French troops marched out last week. There were bonfires on the Rhine hillsides, but no expectoration. Rhinelanders waited until the last troop trains had gone, then young folk danced in rain wet streets, old folk breathed an earnest Gott Sei Dank! The Second Zone of Allied Occupation was free...
...Aachen the Belgians made even shorter work of it. Only General Pouleur, chagrined at the loss of a comfortable post, depressed at the thought of routine duty in Brussels, muttered ominous warnings...
...city where there is many a fine towering pile erected to Mammon much has been made of the millions that have been spent and the millions that have yet to be spent in giving Manhattan what London, Aachen*, Paris, Reims, Wient, Milano, Roma, Seville have long hada magnificent Cathedral...