Watching on the Rhine

by Violet R. Markham

YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FOREWORD

“Here then will we begin the story: only adding thus much to that which hath been said, that it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue and to be short in the story itself.”

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
The Approach	[ 11]
CHAPTER II
Cologne and the Occupation	[ 20]
CHAPTER III
The Kölner Dom	[ 42]
CHAPTER IV
On the Dom Platz	[ 54]
CHAPTER V
Billets	[ 65]
CHAPTER VI
Christmas in Cologne	[ 76]
CHAPTER VII
The Bergische Land	[ 83]
CHAPTER VIII
In Search of a Fishing	[ 95]
CHAPTER IX
Who Pays?	[ 104]
CHAPTER X
Certain Cities and the Saar Basin	[ 119]
CHAPTER XI
From Metz to Verdun	[ 139]
CHAPTER XII
In Alsace	[ 156]
CHAPTER XIII
Some Electioneering Impressions	[ 172]
CHAPTER XIV
Hatred	[ 206]
CHAPTER XV
The German View of England	[ 223]
CHAPTER XVI
Watchman—What of the Night?	[ 247]

WATCHING ON THE RHINE

WATCHING ON THE
RHINE

CHAPTER I
THE APPROACH