Friends of France; . ?%LM&&?<&1. ! MflinWAtfK 2B^r f ihfc Pr^. ** >W WmBm HL * ! w 02 o if i 5 x. Jh. *V**J J* ^ , aqfti t^ ? • f hJ Aif.» THE SECTION IN ALSACE RECONQUISE Le General Joffre, Generalissime des Armees de la Republique a dejeune dans cette maison. Le 15^me Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins occupant cette region. Delivree par lui le 7 Aout 1914. Alsace has been for forty years German forty years young Alsatians have been forced tolearn German in the schools, to serve in the Germanarmy, to be links in the civil and military chainswhich bound them to the Kaisers empi
Friends of France; . ?%LM&&?<&1. ! MflinWAtfK 2B^r f ihfc Pr^. ** >W WmBm HL * ! w 02 o if i 5 x. Jh. *V**J J* ^ , aqfti t^ ? • f hJ Aif.» THE SECTION IN ALSACE RECONQUISE Le General Joffre, Generalissime des Armees de la Republique a dejeune dans cette maison. Le 15^me Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins occupant cette region. Delivree par lui le 7 Aout 1914. Alsace has been for forty years German forty years young Alsatians have been forced tolearn German in the schools, to serve in the Germanarmy, to be links in the civil and military chainswhich bound them to the Kaisers empire. A fewdays ago I took the photograph of an Alsatian girlstanding in the doorway of her home, which she saidshe was going to send through Switzerland to herbrother in the German army somewhere in Rus-sia. But French hearts doubtless beat under manya German uniform, and those of us who have livedin Alsace are confident that re-annexation by Francewill not be a slow or a difficult process. Alsace hasbeen tied to Fran
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