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Show GERMANS ASK FOR RETURN OF ALSATIANS PARIS, April 2. The Germans have made overtures through the holy see for the return by France of inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine who have escaped ! from those regions, offering in exchange an equal number of civilians from the ! invaded districts of France. Cardinal Gas- j parri, papaj secretary of state, transmit- i ted the oifer to Baron Denys Cochin, I a prominent Catholic leader and recently ; a member of the cabinet. He refused 1 to act as intermediary in the negotia- tions on the ground that to do so would j be to recognize Alsatians as German sub- jects. j |