Thursday, January 25, 1923. Auf Widersehen

The remaining U.S. troops in Europe, fresh off occupation duty in Germany, abandoned, most likely, their German sweethearts, girlfriends and good beer, and boarded the U.S. Navy transport the St. Mihiel, which departed thereafter from Antwerp following a simple ceremony.

The St. Mihiel, AP-32.  The ship would serve through World War Two, becoming a hospital ship.

Ah well, what could go wrong with the US turning its back on Europe, eh?

For those who might consider my initial comment too flippant, most US occupation troops in Germany were very late war conscripts, although not all of them were, who notoriously had a difficult time grasping the Germans as having been enemies.

French troops on the same day battled mobs in the Ruhr and dealt with a regional railway strike.

The Asahi Graph (アサヒグラフ, Asahi Gurafu, The Asahi Picture News) founded.  The photo magazine ran until 2000.

Issue from 1937.

The Japanese, like the Germans, took a very early interest in photography and the magazine had a reputation of being sort of a Japanese version of Life.