The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-26
FOCH AND PETAIN
IN STRASSBURC
POpuIace Wildly Acclaim Them
at Cathedral.
AFLAME WITH PATRIOTISM
The Occupation Of AIsace-Lorrane by
French Troops Accompanied With
Growing Enthusiasm.

Paris, Nov. 26.-MarShal Foch and
Marshal Petain entered Strasshurg
and were accorded Il most enthusiastic
reception by the popu!ucr.
The generaliSSimo. Marshal Foch,
formally took posses .-"n of the city
in the name Of the allies.
The entry Of III" marShal@ aroused
even more enthusiasm than That of
the advance cards under General
G0uraud. The pr"tiamation> of Cen
tral GOufraud We're not needed to
rouse the enthusiasm of The people,
us the formal entry was made through
Schirmeck gate. Despite his grief
over his mothers death, General Gou-
rand rode proudly at the head of his
troops. passing through the new Ger
man part of the city TO the old French
quarter At the cathedral Fo"h and
Marshal Petain, on superb chargers.
were beneath the kaiser statue, WO-
men held their children at arms, length
~ permit them TO kiss the trappingS
of the French leaders.
The occupation of Alsace-Lorrafne
by the French troops has been ac-
companied by growing enthusiasm on
the part of the population in proper
ton as the forces penetrate further
toward the Rhine.
After chateau Salines, Metz and
Saareburg in Lorraine and MuIhouSe
in AlSace. Colmar and Savelme GA
bern) opened their arms and poured
out their hearts to their "liberators"
with an ardor that exceeded by far
the welcome Of Metz. All through the
provinces. the smallest villages and
rural districts have shown particular
ly that their loyalty to the French ma
ton has been deepened rather than
diminished. by their long separation.
Saverne, the small garrison town
where a German lieutenant developed
a sensational affair out of an inSig
nificant chatting incident in 1913. had
on its Christmas dress when General
Dupont arrived at the head of his
troops The streets had been planted
on both sides with evergreens. and
more bunting was flying than the en-
tire region was supposed to possess
after four years of dearth of cloth of
all sorts.
Some of the tri-color flags that flew
from the windows of the modest hous-
es were made of strips of calico 9TH
erS were of silk. dating from the sec
ond empire and brought from their
Kidding places, where they had evaded
the German police for nearly fifty
years.
The famous old fortress of Phals-
bourg, which stood sieges so valiantly
before and during 1870, was also
ablaze with red, white and blue, with
the Stars and Stripes and the British
and other allies flags streaming along
side the French. The countryside
farmhouses and small villages were
gay with bunting, which was set off
by the heavy frost that had whitened
the houSetops and the forests Of the
Vosges. y
The inhabitants OF German origin
also flew bunting, but only the Stars
AlSatianS put stop to this, demand
ny that whoever refused to fly the
French tri-colors should fly no flags
whatever A former German officer,
the owner of a hardware establish
ment. summoned to comply with this
demand, hastily drew in the Amert-
can and Alsatian colors.
\ quick inspection of the Alsatian
capital shows that the de-GermaniZa-
ton of the town is proceeding with
prodigious rapidity and is character
iZed by the frantic re-christening of
business houses.
Every few yards there appears a
white cotton band with French name
that has hastily been draped over the
German firm name or the German
trade mark There are now the "cafe
de Paris" and the restaurant de La
marne,' replacing Teutonic names,
while some proud houses have hung
in their windows a discreet card on
which is written: French house, dat
ing before 1870"