Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1919 — EIFFEL TOWER ‘DEMOBILIZED’ [ARTICLE]

EIFFEL TOWER ‘DEMOBILIZED’

Will Be Accessible to Tourist Visitors for the First Time Since War Began. Paris.—The Eiffel tow’er has joined the ranks of the demobilized, its military job being ended, although its wireless telegraph station will be maintained and indeed strengthened to make it equal to the German post at Nation. It will be accessible to tourist visitors after being unapproachable for. more than four years. During the war a dozen machine guns were mounted on the highest platform as protection against air attacks. On the first platform were fourinch guns and searchlights, and later a powerful siren to give warning against air raids.