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...German hospital overlooking the Rhine was one ward known as the Whistlers' Room. Here were four men who had been shot through the throat; each had a silver tube set ingeniously into his neck to serve as a windpipe. "When they breathed quickly or laughed, a soft piping note, like the squeaking of mice, came from the silver mouth. Hence they were called the neck whistlers, or simply the whistlers...
Thumbing one's teeth is, of course, much more polite than thumbing one's nose. At the second Hague Reparations Conference, last week, Chancellor Philip Snowden of the British Exchequer thumbed only his teeth at his adversaries from across the Rhine, even-tempered German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius and meek Finance Minister Paul Moldenhaur...
...relieve Peking in the Boxer Uprising. He served as a provincial military governor in the Philippines, won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the seizure of Vera Cruz. Through Belleau Wood he led the Fourth Marine Brigade to Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne, then on to the Rhine and Coblentz. After 39 years of almost continuous and always victorious fighting, General Neville, familiarly known as "Whispering Buck," still possesses the most powerful drill-voice in the service...
...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...
Ceremonies were simple. Across the Rhine from Coblenz the French tricolor that had floated over the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein for the past eleven years was hauled down while a band played the Marseillaise, then carefully packed for shipment to the Hôtel des Invalides, French war museum. To a rattling quickstep, troops tramped off to the station...