The Rhine, the Rhine The German Rhine! Who guards today My stream divine? "Die Wacht Am Rhein."
On dizzy crags and bleak castle ramparts above the winding Rhine last week Germans lit defiant bonfires, marked the tenth anniversary of French occupation of the Ruhr, a move which Germans always interpreted as a French attempt to seize the left bank of the Rhine.
With excitement at fever heat the French river steamer Condor was fired on from the left bank a few miles above Coblenz.
"Twenty shots were fired at us!" shouted...
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