German Consternation Removed by President Doumergue Cologne, Dec. 2.
The thousands who gathered to celebrate the evacuation of the second occupied Rhineland Zone by the French and Belgian troops were filled with consternation by a report that the President of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission had in formed the Reich Commissar of the occupied area that, although the Allied flags had been struck and the troops had departed, the Zone must, in the absence of a declaration from the Ambassadors' Conference, still be regarded. as subject to the Ordinances of the Inter-Allied. Rhineland High Commission."
The authorities, however, decided to carry on the celebrations, and, later in the day, the tense sititation was relieved by a telegram from 'M. Briand stating that German sovereignty in the second zone had been completely restored—Reuter,
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