Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1874-10-04 | Page 2 | Schleswig-Danish Troubles Compensation to Alsace

i Schleswig-DaDisIi Troubles Coianensatiou to Alsace. New York, 3. A Schleawig paper, while acknowledging the right of the Prussian government to expel agitators agita-tors from Northern Schleswig, condemns con-demns the expulsion of the persons against whom nothing can bo charged, ot wiiO' have simply contributed contri-buted to the Danish journals or taken, part in the fetes on Danish soil. Denmark, it remarks, "is reaping what she sowed, and it is diffiult for the government to ksep the mean between laxity and harshness, but the population unanimously protsat against peaceable citizens being turned out of house and home for no other reason than because thsy have Danish hearts.; The German government has paid 1,SSO,000 as compensation for injuries in-juries sustained during the war by the inhabitants of Lower Alsace, besides 270,000 for provisions, horses and other requisites in Upper Alsace. The government have also contributed about 12,000 for the relief of persons who were indirectly reduced to indigence indi-gence by the war.