Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-16
HATE
ALSACE-[ORRA|NE
Peoples Furniture Is de-
nationaIized" and E'Ceded'
to Guardian Cities.
LOVE FOR FRANCE ABIDES
By PAUL AYREs ROCKWELL.
to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.

By PAUL AYREs ROCKWELL.
Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1913.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES. Oc-
tober f4.-The Germans imperative
need for peace does not prevent them
from continuing to display implacable
hatred for the people of Alsace and
Lorraine. Many of the unfortunate in
habitants of the two lost provinces
have been 'denationalized" by the
German imperial government for ex-
hibiting too plainly their sympathy
with France. Therefore they have
lost their quality of German citizens,
while at the same time their property
has been confiscated and sold.
For the last operation. however, the
Germans encountered difficulty. The
goods of most of the people in the
hold furniture. and the Germanic code
forbids disposing of furniture follow
ing liquidations by auction SALE The
German jurists have been unable to
remove this intolerable obstacle and
therefore the following subterfuge has
denaticnalized persons cannot be sold
publicly, since the law forbids it, but
it can be "ceded' to cities, which are
assumed to guard it. But the cities
have created societies for combating
the high cost of living and particu-
larly the dearness and scarcity of fur
niture.
"Denationalized'' Furniture Coded.
These associations have received the
"denationalized furniture" which is
"ceded" to them at estimated prices
by the municipal administrators.
These prices, in view of the existing
penury, are much below those which
would be paid at auction sales.
The German army also continues it's
severe treatment of natives of the
stolen provinces, taking care to dis
perSe the "wackes' cable bodied)
throughout all the divisions. The fol-
lowing letter written by a soldier be-
longing to the 1880 regiment has been
secured by the French. 1t furnishes
fresh proof of the distrust of the Ger
man commanders for the Alsatians:
AT Z am. an order came to assemble
dI the uIVlSlOudl headquarters all the
Alsatians in the regiment. They told
US we were going to be withdrawn
from the division which was becom-
ing an attacking division. We have
been scattered among the regiments
of the 222d Infantry Division in such
a fashion that only one or two Alsa-
tians remain in each unit
French Sentiment Realized.
Meanwhile German politicians are be-
ginning to admit that Alsace-Loraine
is French in sentiment. East June the
socialist deputy. Hermann Wendell. said
ir the Geichstag: SHOULD We at this
moment take plebiscite in the 'reichs-
land (empire land) four-fif of the
population would pronounce for a re-
turn to France" These words provoked
considerable emotion and gained for the
speaker the most violent inyectives from
the pan-Germanists. -.
Today things are vastly changed. Fiji
teen days ago during the session of the
pan-Germanists congress in Hanover
Pastor Hermann Of Worth. in Alsace,
declared that Gin Alsace-Lorraine only
one-fifth of the popula ton still has truly
Germanic sentiments" and the phrase
aroused no protestation from the audi
tors.