. Rheims and the battles for its possession . om the East, detrained at Rheims and took up positions atSault-Saint-Remy and Saint-Loup-en-Champagne on August 31, to the left ofthe 9th and 11th Corps. On September 1, General Foch resisted on the river Retourne but, in theevening, withdrew to the river Suippe, in conformity with the general the 2nd the town was still protected by the 10th Corps (elements of whichoccupied the Fort of St. Thierry), by the 42nd Division near Brimont and tothe north of the Aviation ground, and by the 9th and 11th Corps to the the 3rd, the French re
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . om the East, detrained at Rheims and took up positions atSault-Saint-Remy and Saint-Loup-en-Champagne on August 31, to the left ofthe 9th and 11th Corps. On September 1, General Foch resisted on the river Retourne but, in theevening, withdrew to the river Suippe, in conformity with the general the 2nd the town was still protected by the 10th Corps (elements of whichoccupied the Fort of St. Thierry), by the 42nd Division near Brimont and tothe north of the Aviation ground, and by the 9th and 11th Corps to the the 3rd, the French retreat towards the Marne became more rapid, andRheims was abandoned. On September 5, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussiaentered the town and took up his quarters at the Grand Hotel. The Germansat once requisitioned 50 tons of meat, 20 tons of vegetables, 100 tons of bread,50 tons of oats, 15,000 gallons of petrol, besides straw and hay, and insistedon the immediate payment of a million francs as a guarantee that their require-ments would be THE TEMPORARY GERMAN OCCUPATION OF SEPT., 1914 German troops in front of the Cathedral. The scaffolding of the latter was set onfire on Sept. 19th. This sum was paid in the course of the afternoon, under threats by theenemy. From the 6th onwards the German soldiers gave themselves up toplundering. The tobacco warehouse at 21 Rue Payen was ransacked, and morethan 700,000 francs worth of cigars and tobacco stolen. On the following dayspillaging, especially of the food-shops, continued. On the 9th, the Komman-dantur requisitioned civilians to bury the dead in the Rethel, Epernay andMontmirail districts. On the 11th, the Crown Prince arrived and took up hisquarters at the Grand Hotel, where he was joined by Prince Henry of Prussia,brother of the Kaiser. On the morning of the 12th, the Germans, alarmed atthe victorious approach of the French troops from the Marne, arrested theMayor (Dr. Langlet), Mgr. Neveux, coadjutor of Rheims, and the Abbe C
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