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Show By W.U. Tolograi-b THE AI-SATIA-l,ORRAIE EX- New York, 17. Miil advices from Alsaco and Lorraine represent that the exodus I'rom those provinces will amount almost to depopulation. Large numbers have left without taking more than a pirt nf tht'ir property and hiui hn!d L'onds wit h them. A still larger number have left their hearths and homes with some cloths hung on the end nf a stick, tho wife carrying the youngest children, and the rest trudging behind. In Metz it is said there are only seventeen recruits ro oiaming, all unfit for service. At Ot-serma, Ot-serma, an Alsace town of 6,000 inhabitants, inhabi-tants, there aro only thirty-one qualified quali-fied f.ir service. Kiuhtecn thou-and are alleged to havrt left Melz during the lat fortnight. reducing the habitation of the t"wn to 10,000, exclusive ex-clusive of 25, OuO German troops who keep watch and ward over them. In 1 Havre, which docs not ieem a very likely place to have any large number of Alsatians and Lorrair.crs tho number num-ber who have chosen the French na tionality roaches 1,400. These facts aro evidently making an impression upon the Germans |