The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-28

German population is mostly of the garrison or the official life. And what shall we care for those remaining? In power the German is3rude and brutal, out of power he is dull and slavish.'
 France was wise ito send you here on her high commission" suggested.
 France. knows that am like the heart of Alsace, all French" said M. Daniel Blumenthal. My. own coun- try must fbe returned storl France or there, can, be no lasting peace. We will accept DO sedatives from Germany, no nypocritical offers to become an au- tonomous state in the German Confed- ration. It Is not alone that France wants her Alsace-Lorraine. Alsace- Lorraine wants her France sG3 Those round black eyes began snap ping again with the joke of. it when referred to his escape into France. It was not so humorous perhaps, in that July day in 1914 when the Huns ap- peared with bayonets on their rifles and stood sentry on the good Mayor Of Co1faar. ~ 9',S ' Ar'
 a"You Americans do things tout 8 coup all of sudden-what you say 4AdyO0 1O AlS1y O1 4IOL4 |AOSC OA4LCO States ever resigned himself from of flee so quick. as I took myself out of the marie of Colmar. -''' You see, had not been loved for some time by Berlin, because I. had refused to receive decorations from M le Kaiser or to acknowledge that Deutschland was uber alles in Colmar. WeHe Alsatians are not pacifists.a We knew for quite a while that war would break over us one of these days and that the Boches would come marching in with the kind of kultur we hated to think about. One of my daughters thought Of what to do, so she said to me:
 Papa, when war comes you must 1 be the first out of Colmar..
 ''So we talk it over en fami1le. Moth | ing was omitted. For we knew that the name of B1umenthaI was at the head of the list of those to be arrest ed.
 "Bien! It was the day of July S1, 1914, that very polite German officers and soldiers arrive to my office in the Town Hall of Colmar. They show me pEoclamationsa from thet.Genera1 Com mandant, which |, am, with greatest politesse, requested to post Those posters say how danger of war is pro- claimed. Colmar is to 80 under mar tial law.
 .'That is sufficient. am still con sidering my program when more gray | soldiers come in with still more poll tesse to inform me that I am now an | Eex-mayor. A German judge at the Court of Appeals is to take, my office. | q see my daughters! The day is pleasant for motoring! say! Why not a. little trip to the stationL They are delighted to take the air. But when | we arrive to the train soldiers; are there. already with bayonets to say that no one shall pass. aa
 "Papa;' says my daughter, would it not be delightful to, tour toward the Rhine2' ..,,.at,s,s.
 Admirable! We all go touring away for an agreeable excursion to- ward new scenery. But when we reach i the town of Nebreisach we are com pletely halted by more German bayon- l cts. The officer is full of anger and all puffed up with rules, like every German.
 What do I mean4by driving up to a guarded city with my motor? Do not know the rules of war? It makes me nothing when I tell the Herr Lieu tenant that I am a peaceful advocate and do not know anything about war He arrests me and sends my daughters back home in the automobile,
 Herr Lieutenant is quite German in his behavior. He calls g. common soldier. who goose steps away with me to see the general. This poor Fritz was bone-in-the-head, too, as you say 1t in America.
 Monsieur, you have beenDtold how Prussians are always efficient. Voila Here was Prussian efficiencyl That
 general, who was a great, fat, all-
 round gentleman, sits there having
 mysteries, because he seems to fear that war will stop if he is not doing everything at once.
 Everybody stands around piiing him